Curly Top is caused by Beet Curly Top Virus, carried by the beet leafhopper, and it does exactly what the name suggests: a tomato plant that was growing…

If you’re staring at a tomato plant that’s lost half its leaves overnight and finding dark, crumbly pellets scattered on the mulch below, you’re looking…

Tiny round holes scattered across the leaf surface, like someone took a hole punch to it in a dozen random spots, mean flea beetles.

Silvery or bronze patches on tomato leaves, tiny black flecks scattered across them, and streaked or scarred fruit usually mean thrips.

Sticky, shiny leaves on a tomato plant, especially near the growing tips, are almost always the first sign of an aphid colony, not the aphids themselves.

Anthracnose on tomatoes shows up as small, sunken, water-soaked circles on ripe or nearly ripe fruit, often developing a faint target pattern as they age.

Bronze, ring-marked leaves on the upper growth and target-like rings on the fruit itself point to tomato spotted wilt virus, a disease carried by thrips…

Brush a tomato plant and a pale cloud lifts off the underside of the leaves, hovers for a second, then settles right back down. That’s whiteflies.

Those pale, cloudy patches sitting just under the skin of an otherwise ripe tomato are almost always stink bug feeding damage.