Good move getting that out. You put that in the trash, not the compost pile, didn't you? If you compost it, it could spread to next year's garden.
Yes, I am careful of inadvertently helping disease and weeds spread via compost. From what i have read, the fungus type issues like this that get tomato plants can and will "over winter" in the soil, so I am anal about removing any leaves that look remotely like they have spores on them, whether yellow brown or black or....
We have been distributed big yard waste bins were in the city, the "Herbie curbie" type. I keep mine way up on the side of the house away from the garden in full afternoon sun. It gets any and all crap that doesn't go to the compost piles, including potentially diseased cuttings and all weed and woody stemmed stuff. Being in the sun, it turns into a super heated digester of plant material in the week or two between pickups.
Confession time:
I thought about torching it with some accumulated gunpowder from reloading spills and reclaimed rounds, but it was wet and drizzling here last night.
This plant rattled me so I put it in the commercial dumpster behind the restaurant a couple hundred yards over in the commercial block I adjoin. Code says these have to be emptied daily here and lord knows I hear them banging at 5:30 in the morning so I know it is true. Therefore, the spotted plant in the picture above is by now composting with food scraps and garbage in the landfill 12 miles south of here.
Garden is looking great, keep posting those pics. My squash plants are starting to take off like those gourds. Not a lot of length yet, but there is a noticeable difference from day to day.
I took a couple shots of my modest squash bed last night too- two crooknecks with a zucchini in between, all of the bush variety. Funny thing is the soils is the same and the seeds for the two yellow crookneck plants came from the same packet, but look at the difference between the two plants ((the left and right ones) both in overall size and leaf size:

LOL, I think I have an explanation though; it is a mutant plant on the left- look at the male double blossom it has developed......

