Vegetable Program
Crops

Tomato, Field

Tomatoes are a warm season crop and grow best on well-drained soils that are high in organic matter. For earliest production a light soil is preferred on a gently sloping (2% or less) site with a southern or eastern exposure.

For Current information on production methods (including varieties, spacing, seeding, and fertility), weed, disease, and insect management, please visit the New England Vegetable Management Guide website.

Below you will find additional information on managing this crop, including photos of insects and diseases in this crop, fact sheets, articles, and power point presentations, when available.

Insect List

• Aphids
• Cabbage Looper
• Colorado Potato Beetle
• Cutworm Black
• Cutworm Veriegated
• Flea Beetle
• Leafminer
• Tomato Hornworm
• Tomato Fruitworm
• Slugs
• Stink Bugs
• Two Spotted Spider Mites
• Whitefly

Disease List

• Anthracnose
• Bacterial Canker (Clavibacter)
• Bacterial Speck (Pseudomonas)
• Bacterial Spot ( Xanthomonas)
• Blossom End Rot
• Blotchy Ripening and Greywall
• Cucumber Mosaic Virus (CMV)
• Early Blight
• Fruit Cracking
• Fruit Rot (Pythium)
• Fruit Rot (Phytophthora)
• Fulvia
• Grey Mold (Botrytis)
• Late Blight (Phytophthora infestans)
• Powdery Mildew
• Sclerotinia Blight (Sclerotinia)
• Seed Decay and Damping-Off
• Septoria Leafspot
• Tobacco and Tomato Mosaic Virus (TMV, TomMV)
• Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus (TSWV)
• Wilt (Fusarium)
• Wilt (Verticillium)

Articles

• Early Blight of Tomato and Potato 2006
• Bug vs. Bug Biological Control and Identification of Aphids
• Loss of Exotherm Termil in Greenhouse Tomatoes Forces Growers to Make New Decisions
• Blossom-End Rot in Tomatoes
• IPM Guidelines for Field Tomatoes
• Bacterial Spot & Speck of Tomato and Pepper
• Disease Management of Hydroponically Grown Vegetable Crops
• Managing Bacterial Canker in Tomato: Key Strategies
• Phytophtora Blight of Cucurbits, Peppers and Tomatoes
• Sclerotinia Blight of Vegetable Crops
• Clavibacter of Tomato