welcome to the rusted garden we are going to go into those container Tomatoes are doing extremely well but they have disease on them they have a leaf spot disease on there now these are determinate variety Tomatoes most of them so they're gonna get to a set height flower produce fruit and die off and some of what you're gonna see in there is the natural dyeing of the bottom leaves as these determinate tomatoes have flowered they're producing fruit but we have had crazy crazy rain for the last three white weeks we've had floods I've been trying to spray these regularly that's the main point anytime that you are managing Tomatoes you know you have diseases in your area try and spray regularly every 7 to 14 days depending on what's going on however I would spray it would rain you know thunderstorms wash it off it go out and spray again more thunderstorms so even if you have a perfect plan you still may end up with diseases and problems because nature just doesn't cooperate so let's go right to the bottom on a lot of the leaves you can see the yellow and yellowing isn't always an issue but those brown spots on there are an issue and when you have brown spots just like that that is usually a leaf spot and you can see it on a lot of different plants now they usually attack the bottom of the plant because those weeks those leaves are a little bit weaker and it kind of takes hold in the plants can't really fight them off here's some more over here now I'm not that concerned yet but this is how you treat it first of all I've already sprayed my Tomatoes this morning with a baking soda and milk spray whatever you want to use is perfectly fine you want to get in there close the top side the bottom side of your leaves with an anti antifungal some people use baking soda some people use milk you can use wettable sulfur you could used a kunal it's a chemical that is really really effective if you're losing your crop and the organic remedies aren't working you may want to try deccan all but i've sprayed everything down and you can see those spots are the points of concern and there's more right in there so you want to spray everything first because you're going to be in here moving around touching leaves I'm possibly spreading the fungus around so spray the leaves then we want to get in there and just remove leaves that are infected again determine two varieties and you would go in and just cut off the infected leaves let's trim all these out where's that one try not to touch the plants that have the least spot on there or the disease on there and then touch the leaves that are healthy and I would go around and remove all the leaves I'm gonna do that I'll show you what it looks like for all the plants we'll talk a little bit more about the fungus on there so spray everything down let it dry and they get to removing oles so I went through and removed a lot of the leaves anything that has spots on them will be little brown spots and the brown spots if the fungus is active usually around the brown spots it's yellow now hopefully I got here in time to control this I was away that was another problem I couldn't check on everything I'll show you what I removed and show you the leaf spot again but I want to show you this plant this is a tomato plant that's yellowing and there's no leaf spot on there so this is normal when you see it yellowing out that's a normal pattern sometimes for the determinate varieties but I'm gonna remove those at the end of this video I'm gonna show you how I use calcium nitrate to give them a boost of nitrogen but also help prep them so they don't get blossom in rot so I removed a lot of the leaves from the bottom I also took my containers and spread them out so that wind will circulate through there and when I'm done I'll show you I how I set these up while I'm in the disease control mode again that's what the leaf spot looks like you can see it on these leaves sometimes the weaker leaves get it first when you come over here I'm gonna give you a a quick look there is some on this leave and you might be tempted to go like this well trying to do it left-handed that's funny it won't kill but just imagine you're trying to cut that off if it's on this leaf here it's probably already on here so just go ahead and remove the whole leaf don't try and just cut off single leaves take the whole stem because you're really trying to control the disease the other thing is and you can see it here too you might say let me just cut this off no go through and cut off the entire leaf and I would have to go through and inspect this you want to spray the bottom and the underside and you also might be tempted while you're cutting leaves to go ahead and then tie them up do that at the end only use the scissors to remove the leaves that have damage on them these guys have been cut back you can see how much I took off all the way through and you can see that plants are falling over now because they need to be tied down do that last I'll show you how we do that and he also here like I even missed it so there's somewhere on there so rather than just cut this off thinking you're just removing this leaf you want to get rid of the entire stem or the entire leaf on here there's spots on the stem not just the leaves and again that's leaf spot it's producing Tomatoes it's a determinate variety but it has leaf spot so that's how you trim everything back now that you've removed most of the leaves go back and check one more time remove any leaves that have the spots on it so let me clean this up and then we'll get to the next step here's the total of all the leaves I took off they have disease on them so bag them and throw them away do you not put them in your compost pile now in my area I'm in Maryland zone 7 I haven't had leaf spot for years it usually comes at this time may June if I have it late May the temperatures the weather the rain everything has just been awful so even if you try and do the right thing and you do a great job you still can end up with disease so don't get too down if it happens so now that I've removed the spots from the leaves that I've identified there's still disease on there I've already sprayed once I'm gonna go in and spray again you know whatever spray you want to use is up to you I have videos on all the different sprays that I might use you could pick one of those or get one off the internet that you may like or buy it in the store so I'm gonna go through spray all the leaves get the undersides get the topsides I really want to treat the undersides and the top sides of the leaves when that dries I'm going to come in tie up the plants and then I'll show you how I manage blossom end rot using calcium nitrate and make my own spray so everything's been staked up I move the pots around to let more air circulation go through the plants and around the plants if you've been watching this series the plants were all right in this area now I have to work 9 to 5 so I do all these gardening videos around my full-time job and I went to Tennessee visited my son I had a great time when I went to Nashville I want to show you the plant right in here here's a tomato that was away from the main group and has no yellowing leaves no leaf spot there's nothing I needed to do to that so disease does come when you have plants concentrated together and like I said if things were perfect I would have had time to spread these out as I wanted to because I had pea plants over there they were gonna die out and come out and this is how it was gonna go but circumstances weather everything kind of fell in place that we got leaf spot so stake them up get them off the ground remove the leaves and you can see I have a lot of tomatoes coming in right in here the branch bent really badly so you can make a splint just put the wood on both sides tight tightly on their split it up and then tie the whole vine along a stake that will heal but it was you know pretty bad off I just want to give you a quick look the tomatoes are coming in the space will allow circulation through here they've been sprayed all this crazy stuff growing right here if you ever see that those are just root nodes because of all this humidity and water and rain the plants have been trying to root really into the air and that's just how bad it has been here again more Tomatoes all doing nicely and when you get disease the whole goal especially at the determinate varieties it's just to use your spray manage the plants so that you get production from your Tomatoes before they naturally die out and slow the disease it'd be great if we could remove it and control it and get rid of it but if we can kind of slow it down maybe control the growth a little bit you're gonna get plenty of great tomatoes now also with all this rain water is whipping through the container mix leaching away a lot of the nutrients so we're going to do a feeding I'm going to give it a water-soluble fertilizer worm casting tea and fish emulsion but I want to show you how I use calcium nitrate to put in a water soluble form of calcium and nitrogen so that these plants don't get blossom-end rot on the tomatoes blossom end rot is when the bottom is of your tomatoes turn brown you'll know when it happens you can see it happen happens quickly it usually happens container plants and it's either an issue where you have calcium in your soil your plants can't take it into the system or there's not enough calcium so when you set up your container mixes you can put in gypsum that outs calcium you can put in line that adds calcium but still sometimes container plants container tomatoes container peppers the plant still get blossom and run so you can also put a foliar feed on your leave where the leaves will absorb calcium and it will absorb nitrogen and that is by using calcium nitrate I sell this at my seed shop WWDC garden calm the recipes are on there on how to use it one gallon of water one to two tablespoons of calcium nitrate yes it's a chemical everything on the planets are chemical calcium nitrate is made by taking calcium carbonate adding nitric acid it reacts it releases carbon dioxide and you end up with calcium nitrate this is 15 percent nitrogen zero phosphorus zero potassium so this is a nitrogen feed and it's also 19 percent water soluble calcium which is great because it will absorb right into the leaves through the leaves and your container plants all you need to do spray it down just like that you don't even need to do this weekly when you see your plants are starting to produce fruit you can go ahead and use calcium nitrate it will stop blossom end rot if you see your plants your Tomatoes end up with blossom end rot or your peppers are browning on the bottoms or the sides that's also a form of calcium deficiency go ahead and use this calcium nitrates right where do you find this if you go into a store and you buy blossom end rot spray it's about 16 ounces it's gonna cost you anywhere from six to ten dollars that's all it is all it is is the calcium nitrate two that I just showed you so you can pick it up for me and that bag that I just showed you actually will make about don't quote me but about I think 20 gallons 50 quarts of the spray it's really really inexpensive to do it yourself in fact that pack is only about 12 bucks and you can make a whole lot of spray from it I hope you enjoyed the video this gives you some idea of how to manage and deal with spot diseases on your plants it's really important to spray your tomatoes before the diseases come and then when it diseases five you want to be spraying them about once a week till it's under control and then you can go back to a routine of spraying every seven to 14 days it's probably gonna rain here again so I'm gonna reapply my spray but do your best please check out my block at www.sec.gov you can also find my seed shop there and please check out my youtube videos thanks