Hello,

I posted this in the Tomatoes forum and thought I would post it here as well.

Below are pics of my plants that I planted in mid Feb...a bit early, but they have tolerated the cool weather.

I noticed the spots showing up on the lower leaves, which were yellowing, and I thought it was because it was setting fruit. (The yellowing, not the spots) The spots are now on every leaf of the plant. It is a Yellow Pear plant I purchased at a local nursery. After I planted it, it never looked very happy or healthy in comparison to the other plants I purchased and planted nearby. I thought it was just transplant shock initially.

The Sweet Olive plant looks like classic Early blight, but the grayish patches on the Yellow Pear look like Late Blight according to the pics from Problem Solver in the Disease forum, but I'm no expert. The grayish patches are on the lower leaves, and the top leaves have spots and no grayish patches. The Cherokee purple and Champion plant have spots as well.

The only plant not affected is a cutting off of the Yellow Pear that I had in a container sitting near by. I moved it this morning, and it looks very happy and healthy.

What do I do with these plants? Pull them up and start over or will Daconil or other sprays save them? Also, is the soil contaminated now? It was an old bed that had not been used for anything in at least 15 years that I dug up and amended with MG Garden Soil and purchased compost.

I have seedling hardening off that I can replace them with, so I'm not heart broken if I have to pull them up...just concerned about it happening to the new ones.

Thanks!

Yellow Pear

(Grey patches are on the right that look like Late Blight to me)

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Sweet Olive (looks like EB)

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Cherokee Purple

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Champion

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The Champion has two toms on it. It stopped bearing fruit and has suffered blossom drop, but so have all of my other plants, healthy and non-healthy, as our night time temps have been too cool. The lower leaves on the Champion look like they might be getting some of those gray patches as well. :(