Spider Mites: Stippled Leaves and Fine Webbing in the Leaf Joints
Fine speckling across the top of tomato leaves, a faint bronze or dusty cast when you step back, and tiny threads of webbing tucked into the spot where…
Cutworms: The Seedling Felled at Soil Level Overnight
A tomato seedling standing tall at dusk, lying severed at the soil line by morning: that’s the signature of a cutworm.
Gray Mold on Tomatoes: The Fuzz That Follows a Wound
Gray fuzz clustered around a pruning cut, a broken stem, or a spent flower is almost always Botrytis cinerea, the fungus known as gray mold.
Southern Blight: The White Fan at the Base of the Stem
Southern blight is serious and it moves fast. The telltale sign is a white, fan-shaped mat of fungal threads spreading across the stem right at the soil…
Bacterial Speck: Tiny Black Dots With a Yellow Halo
Bacterial speck shows up as pinpoint black lesions, each ringed by a narrow yellow halo, scattered across young leaves and green fruit.
Bacterial Canker: One-Sided Wilting and Bird’s-Eye Spots on the Fruit
One-sided wilting paired with small tan spots ringed in white on green fruit points to bacterial canker, caused by Clavibacter michiganensis subsp.
Tomato Mosaic Virus: Mottled Leaves That No Spray Will Fix
Mottled leaves in patches of light and dark green, some puckering, some narrowing into strap-like shapes: that combination points to Tomato Mosaic Virus.
The Best Onion Varieties for Yukon
Onions bulb according to day length, not the calendar or the thermometer, and that single mechanism decides which varieties belong in a Yukon garden.
When to Plant Onions in Wyoming
Wyoming sits far enough north that day length, not the calendar, decides when onions stop making leaves and start making bulbs.