TOMATOES

Note: never handle cigarettes or other tobacco products while planting or harvesting tomatoes. Tomato plants are susceptible to tobacco mosaic virus, harmless to humans but dangerous for related plants.

Blooms drop off before tomatoes are formed

Blotchy tomatoes * Grayish-yellow patches on fruit

Large holes eaten into tomatoes

Leaves roll up and feel thick and stiff

Fruit feels "puffy"

Tomatoes have rotten, light-colored patches

Bottom of tomato rots suddenly

Tomato shows thin lines from the stem to the blossom end

Light green color remains on top of tomato

Bumpy tomatoes with black scarring

Leaves mottled with tiny holes * Tiny, black bugs jumping everywhere

Small holes in fruit

Tunnels eaten in leaves

Young plants eaten off close to the soil




ROSES

Ants on your rose bushes * Sticky "honeydew" residue * Tiny black, white or green insects on stems or undersides of leaves

Normally colored leaves that begin to crinkle * Patches of fuzzy white mold

Reddish or orange growths on undersides of leaves

Webbing on undersides of leaves * Leaves falling after turning brown and dry

Yellowing leaves * Small black rings that turn yellow as they enlarge

Nearly opened blooms suddenly dotted brown (especially pale-colored blooms) * General collapse of bloom




HOUSEPLANTS

limp stems & leaves * dryness * browning or yellowing leaves

Limp stems & leaves * Overall plant collapse * Mushy stems * Yellowing leaves

Leaves dull & gray * Fine webbing between branches and on the undersides of leaves * Sticky "honeydew" residue

Distorted leaves * Sticky honeydew residue * Groups of tiny black, green or white insects under leaves & on stems

Cottony, white patches on stems & leaves * Grayish, distorted leaves




AFRICAN VIOLETS

Leaves growing well * No blooms appearing

Leaves & flowers mushy and limp * Leaves dropping off

Sudden yellowing of a healthy plant

Leaves curling * Limpness

Grayish powder on leaves & flowers

Leaves distorted, off-color * Cottony white clusters on stems & leaves

Brown spots on leaves

Clear spots on flowers

Center leaves of African violet growing very crowded and "tight" * Gray color on new leaves' bases * Leaves and new buds hard, brittle, twisted, stunted

Plant growing very slowly

Flower pollen spilled onto leaves * Tiny insect on flowers

Wilting and mushy plants * Center leaves die * Roots die