Spots on pepper, eggplant and okra. Cercospora (frog eye)?

LMinAL · May 18, 2014

Last year in this bed I planted tomatoes. I can't rotate too much due to small space, so I ended up with chard, herbs and radishes in the spring and added peppers, eggplant and direct seeded okra for the summer. I'm sure I have cercospora on the chard (have had it in the past, but not a big deal as we eat it early), but now my peppers and eggplant are showing up with tiny red/black dots as well. The okra seedlings had the spots too so I just pulled them out. I have plenty of time to reseed.

Has anyone else had this? Or could this be a carryover of the septoria or bacterial speck from last year? I've sprayed preventative from day of plant out, but we've had so much rain the past week it's been hard to keep them covered. I don't know whether to pull them out and start over or just keep spraying preventative and wait. I really don't want it spreading to my tomatoes!!!

May 18, 2014	#1
LMinAL Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: Alabama Posts: 46	Spots on pepper, eggplant and okra. Cercospora (frog eye)? Last year in this bed I planted tomatoes. I can't rotate too much due to small space, so I ended up with chard, herbs and radishes in the spring and added peppers, eggplant and direct seeded okra for the summer. I'm sure I have cercospora on the chard (have had it in the past, but not a big deal as we eat it early), but now my peppers and eggplant are showing up with tiny red/black dots as well. The okra seedlings had the spots too so I just pulled them out. I have plenty of time to reseed. Has anyone else had this? Or could this be a carryover of the septoria or bacterial speck from last year? I've sprayed preventative from day of plant out, but we've had so much rain the past week it's been hard to keep them covered. I don't know whether to pull them out and start over or just keep spraying preventative and wait. I really don't want it spreading to my tomatoes!!!