The horror, the horror! Return of the living dead plants? I have no idea what that is. Have luckily been spared for those kinds of diseases.

That's the reason I'm now starting everything from seed.
Although I've been buying transplants from this nursery for several years now without a problem, never again. There's no telling what the plants have been exposed to when you buy them from one of those places.

I would take them back to the nursery and ask them what's going on.

john

Looks like they got sprayed with something at the nursery by accident.

It does look like some sort of a burn from a spray, but if that happened at the nursery I think it would have shown up sooner. These had been planted out for about 6 weeks before this foliage damage happened.

The plants had been looking pretty good and even putting out a few peppers.

As I said above, my tomatoes (some of which were about 1 foot from the peppers) were fine.

The leaves sort of look like early blight on tomato leaves.

This does look very much like early blight (my tomatoes had it bad last year). A quick Google seems to suggest that it can happen to peppers also, it just isn't as common.

I too think it looks like blight. I had it last year on my tomatoes and it hit a few peppers planted next to them.

Did you buy your tomato starts at the same nursery? If so, tomato blight may have spread at your place as well as the nursery. Yes, tomato blight can spread to peppers. I got caught last year and a couple of my peppers planted beside tomatoes got hit.

If it is blight, start new plants in a different location. Once itÂs in a localized area, you need to plant tomatoes and peppers in a different location for a season or two to kill off the blight residing in the soil. This is the reason farmers rotate crops.

Last year was a disaster for me. Started off with a thrips infestation, then loads of rain, cloudy cool weather and a good dose of blight for good measure. DonÂt get discouraged. Pick up some new starts from a different source and plant them in a different location as far away as you can from where the current ones are.

Best of luck,

Bill

I don't know much about pepper disease, but it might be bacterial leaf spot. Take a look at page 5 of the attached PDF and see what you think. Just a guess.

Good Luck

Rick

Here is a link that might be useful: UMD pepper disease doc

Bill,
Yes I bought the peppers & tom's at the same time from the same nursery. The tomatoes did very well and never caught it.

I don't have to worry about switching planting locations as I grow in "earthtainers".

This year I've started from seeds puchased from TGS, so I should be OK. Thanks for the reply.

Rick,
The photo of bacterial spot does look somewhat similar, but it's sort of hard to tell from that pic. Also, the description says that b. spot starts as a small pimple on the leaf's underside. As I recall, this started with the leaf edges turning brown, then continuing with spots all over the leaves.
Thanks for the link.