On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 21:50:27 -0500, in rec.gardens.edible you wrote:

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:"Dan Musicant" wrote in message
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: I've seen this sort of strange growth on tomatoes before. I read a line
: or two in a book that seemed to suggest tangentally that over
: fertilization of some kind might be responsible for this. However, I
: want some confirmation because it was very anecdotal.
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: I have 6 Early Girl tomato plants growing where I usually have very good
: luck. They are planted in soil that was mixed with a considerable amount
: of my own compost do a depth of nearly 2 feet. However, the plants
: aren't doing terribly well, the the corkscrew-like twisting has me
: wondering if I did something wrong. Does anyone know what causes this
: unusual growth pattern? I don't usually get it.
:
id one of your neighbors spray with a weed killer like Round-Up?

I wouldn't know. Undoubtedly some of that in the neighborhood, and in
fact I've used Roundup a few times although not recently and it was so
long ago I believe it would have decomposed based on the Roundup label,
etc. I haven't used Roundup for around a year, I'd guess, and when I did
I was careful to target weeds.

Dan
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: Dan