On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:40:00 -0400, Boron Elgar
wrote:

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:05:48 -0500, HomerS wrote:

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:35:07 -0700, "Aluckyguess" wrote:

Here is a link to pictures of my tomato's. I was wondering if the brown
leafs are normal or if I am doing something wrong. Maybe they are the
determinate and starting to die?
http://kevinandrews.com/Tomato%20pics.htm

thanks


An important clue is that most of the damage occurs near the bottom
where there is more moisture and less circulation of air.

You can help by thinning out the foliage and letting your plants
breathe and air circulate.

And NEVER wet the ground under the plant. You want the soil under
the plant to be completely dry at all times. You can do this with a
good dry layered mulch. To water the plants, use a buried bottle
such as a milk jug with holes punched in the bottom.


How do you get the rain to cooperate with your tomato watering plan?

You mean you can't direct the rain around the plants and into the
soil?

According to the Texas A&M site, it looks like early blight. I
usually get some on my tomato plants, but it doesn't usually kill
them. Spray with a copper-based fungicide, according to Rodale's
"Garden Problem Solver."

Early blight seems to be selective. Some of my tomatoes that are
thick close to the ground show no signs of it and some of the ones
that are fairly thin and off the ground do have it. BTW we use soaker
hoses that are covered with grass clipping.
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