Help: Troubleshooting Tomato Leaf Problems

I have one tomato plant (of only four) in the greenhouse exhibiting this symptom (although I believe several in the outdoor garden have similar symptoms - hard to tell as they are less than a tenth of the size).  Here it is after I stripped it of the diseased leaves (it is quite pale in colour compared to the others).

 Two years ago, I lost more than half of my tomato plants (all in containers).  I suspected verticillium wilt but there are so many similar viruses.  Wilt, blight ... arggh!  It seems most of them are soil-borne, so once I have it, well ... I have it.  I thought the only symptoms were seen in the picture below (so yellowish leaves and purple spots), but the main picture above was taken today showing more severe symptoms on that one leaf.

I have finally received my battery-operated fan to put in the greenhouse for improved air circulation (and to help with pollination).  But it is still charging!  I'll get it out as soon as I can.

 

I don't have a lot of experience and find so many "diseases" to have similar symptoms.  If you are experienced and have any thoughts and (hopefully!) suggestions (remedies) on this topic, I eagerly await any advice.  I gave the plant some fertilizer, but don't think it's a nutritional deficiency.  Do you need more photos?  Will gladly assist for any potential fixes!  Somebody please help me! :)

Harvest Monday: June 8, 2015

Ah, another beautiful week gone by!  Unfortunately, most of it was spent in Toronto on a work trip so I haven't been in the yard much.  But there was just enough rain and sunshine to manage without me (except the plants in the greenhouse which needed some help from friends who came over to water for me).

So much on the way, but very little to harvest right now.   I finally broke down and harvested a bit of rhubarb.  The plants are still small (only planted in 2013) so I've only taken a small amount.  I pulled my last bag of strawberries from last year out of the freezer so will make something yummy soon.

Rhubarb

This French tarragon plant has grown very quickly and is threatening to take over the swiss chard seedlings that are just starting to come up around it.  The plant is currently 2 1/4 feet tall and about 10-12 inches in diameter - or at least it was that much around before it's trim!

french tarragon

I haven't bothered to weigh up the tarragon pieces as I'm not sure if I'll use it or not (plenty left to worry about preserving later on - this is only one of three plants, although by far the largest!).  But maybe some flavoured vinegar?

And this small basket full of greens ended up with only 14 grams of lettuce that was edible.

The kale was pulled from the greenhouse - I started it too late and now it's far too hot for kale to grow.  I cleaned it up but it was just too tough to eat, and not at all the dark green it should be.  And I thought I could rescue some of the arugula but it has bolted and the stems were too thick (and a bit furry) to be edible.  So a very small salad was made with the few lettuce greens I picked.

Please take some time to check out Daphne's Dandelions for other harvests around the globe on this lovely spring Monday.

Harvest Monday: June 1, 2015

This is my submission for Daphne's Dandelions wonderful weekly review of how gardeners are working it around the globe.

It is still a slow week as I'm sure it will be for a while.  But the harvests are coming in bit by bit.  First are radishes.  The pictures above and below are of Easter Egg variety radish from William Dam.  I have a terrible problem with not thinning so I don't have much.  In fact, I only grew radishes this year (after not doing so for a few years) to see if I even still liked them.  Not sure I do.  I really love them in my family's potato salad recipe and maybe the odd salad with radish but that's about it.  Probably my last year.  This week, I harvested 115 grams of radish (after removing greens).  Based on some foreshadowing on Margaret's blog, I suspect she is more successful with her growing techniques (which I admittedly have none to speak of).

Early last week I decided to clean up around the garlic and pulled out this Music garlic plant where the greens were not growing properly.

After cutting out the brown parts, I cut it up and used it in this pasta dish with tomatoes and feta.

And before I get to the finale ... here are a few wild strawberries.  My yard is filled with wild strawberry plants but they are usually throughout the lawn and tend to get mowed over.  This one plant was found growing in the gravel driveway (but nowhere that my car goes).

The most interesting harvest I have this week is the arugula.  Not much by weight (120 grams) but I'm finally starting to get some good greens coming up (I also had 4 small spinach leaves which I didn't bother to weigh).  The arugula was sauteed with garlic and shrimp and tossed with pasta and my arugula pesto recipe (found a jar in the freezer).

My camera somehow got set on "illustration" mode, so this picture looks cartoonish.