In a message dated 7/11/01 3:31:55 PM, owner-gardeners-digest@globalgarden.com writes: << My tomatoes look sickly. I have planted 3 Roma plants and 3 Celebrity. All the plants have tomatoes on them but all the lower leaves (and some upper branches) have turned yellow, then brown and died. I'm pulling the dead stems off and all the tomatoes look fine but I'm wondering what's wrong. STacey in DC >> Sounds like Early Blight. Spray w/Daconil. We were just discussing this very common ailment on my list TomatoMania Mary-Anne, List Owner USDA Zone 9b, Sunset Zone 14/15 mailto:TomatoMania-subscribe@YahooGroups.com <A HREF=" mailto:TomatoMania-subscribe@YahooGroups.com ">AOL Click Here</A> "Who plants the seed beneath the sod, and waits to see, believes in God."