“In all my years growing tomatoes, I’ve never seen a worse year,” gardeners tell me every so often. I hope this isn’t your worst year. Either way, there are reasons why it’s been tough.

You have watered, fertilized, and weeded around your tomato plants. For optimum harvest, here's how to prune them.

Two other fungal diseases, early blight and anthracnose, are also significant diseases in Illinois tomato fields. All three can be sprayed with Quadris alternated with chlorothalonil (Bravo Weather ...