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Green blob??
gourmetalice
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I found these green blobs of gooey jelly like junk on my tomato plant. There are 4 of them fairly close together. Is this some type of fungus? It is not a growth from the plant. I've looked and can find nothing like it on the internet. Just want to know what it is and how to get rid of it. Thanks!
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I didn't realize this was a site mainly for "across the pond" from the US. If you can't help ---ignore me---if you can THANK YOU.
Hi gourmetalice. Yes indeed the majority of us are in the UK. The name of the site is taken from a very popular gardening programme - Gardener's World - shown on BBC TV but please don't hesitate to ask any questions you like and if we can help we most certainly will. Is the jelly like substance a part of the leaf or can it be washed away with water? If it can be washed off I have to say that my first guess would be bird poop. If it is part of the leaf then it is a mystery but I would just remove the affected leaves and destroy. Your plants should be fine.
Or even caterpillar poop? Any sign of caterpillars?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It doesn't look like any tomato disease. I would just wash it off, probably something that some insect, animal or bird has deposited.
I thought the name of this site was taken from Gardener's World magazine.
It's definitely caterpillar poo(p). You'll have to get searching beause they will eventually get fed up of eating leaves and start on your tomatoes!
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The Gardener's World magazine - a BBC publication - was named for the programme.
Nutcracker, that would be one huge caterpillar and I cannot see any signs of caterpillar damage.
Maybe it's the eggs of something.
Well it looks like caterpillar frass to me. They do get huge, especially as the caterpillars grow. They are the very devil to find, the leaves it has chewed/is hiding among would be above what you can see in the photograph, which is an enlargement of one small segment of a tomato leaf. I hope I'm wrong here gourmetalice's sake.
I so do not want to meet that caterpillar but I guess in America they could have giant ones