Tomato Plants Wilting
Hello,
First of all, I am a beginner in the gardening world, so I may be overlooking something simple here. Anyway, I have seven tomato plants and some assorted basil, squash, and peppers, in a 10' x 10' garden with 75% full sun. Three of the tomato plants are showing fairly severe wilting. The other four appear perfectly healthy. All other plants in the garden look good. I live in North Carolina, where it has rained almost every day for the past six weeks. The worst looking plant has one branch which appears to be perfectly fine. All other branches on the plant are experiencing wilting (strange?). In each case, the wilting plants do not have any obvious yellowing, spotting, or insect problems. The squash in the garden is already fairly large and healthy, so I suppose it could be dominating the garden at the root level. However, if so, it is not effecting all plants uniformly. Any ideas/solutions? Thank you very much for your help!, Fred Mann |
Tomato Plants Wilting
I have a similar problem in northern Ohio with all the rain we had. My
tomato and pepper plants all wilted from too much rain. I put in new ones but planted them in above the ground so far so good. So the soil is not the greatest its clay. The dranage is very poor. There is nothing I can do about it because its a community garden. "Fred Mann" wrote in message ... Hello, First of all, I am a beginner in the gardening world, so I may be overlooking something simple here. Anyway, I have seven tomato plants and some assorted basil, squash, and peppers, in a 10' x 10' garden with 75% full sun. Three of the tomato plants are showing fairly severe wilting. The other four appear perfectly healthy. All other plants in the garden look good. I live in North Carolina, where it has rained almost every day for the past six weeks. The worst looking plant has one branch which appears to be perfectly fine. All other branches on the plant are experiencing wilting (strange?). In each case, the wilting plants do not have any obvious yellowing, spotting, or insect problems. The squash in the garden is already fairly large and healthy, so I suppose it could be dominating the garden at the root level. However, if so, it is not effecting all plants uniformly. Any ideas/solutions? Thank you very much for your help!, Fred Mann |
Tomato Plants Wilting
Take a look at their positioning. Are they three wilting ones
together? In one corner, along one side, least amount of sun, draingage pipes, a downward slope, nearest to anything else? This may be the clue you need to understand what is happening. Maybe you have bad drainage at that spot and they are rotting at the roots. If they do die out on you I believe their roots will be brown or black when you have root rot. At that point you'll at least understand why. Here in NY we just broke the all-time record for rain in the month of June. Nearly 10 inches when our average is under 4. And we may actually get three consecutive days of relative sunshine which hasn't happened since May? April? I can't even recall. DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email) Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound 1st Year Gardener |
Tomato Plants Wilting
The sick and healthy plants are not clustered in any obvious way, but I
guess that does not rule out a drainage problem. Are there any other possibilities? Should I try some sort of fertilization? Thanks again, Fred Mann "DigitalVinyl" wrote in message ... Take a look at their positioning. Are they three wilting ones together? In one corner, along one side, least amount of sun, draingage pipes, a downward slope, nearest to anything else? This may be the clue you need to understand what is happening. Maybe you have bad drainage at that spot and they are rotting at the roots. If they do die out on you I believe their roots will be brown or black when you have root rot. At that point you'll at least understand why. Here in NY we just broke the all-time record for rain in the month of June. Nearly 10 inches when our average is under 4. And we may actually get three consecutive days of relative sunshine which hasn't happened since May? April? I can't even recall. DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email) Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound 1st Year Gardener |
Tomato Plants Wilting
"Fred Mann" wrote:
The sick and healthy plants are not clustered in any obvious way, but I guess that does not rule out a drainage problem. Are there any other possibilities? Should I try some sort of fertilization? Thanks again, Fred Mann I'm not one to offer any experienced advice. If you are seeing the weather change that we are you may see a few days of sun this week. That may help. We had some tomato plants that were yellowed but some sun bounced them back. We also had some that were rather scraggly with tiny curled green leaves. However the top growth on those have started to look healthy--that was the first sign of recovery. On my older one the bottom leaves browned and died but the top growth is now exploding and stretching for the 2foot mark. I'm never sure what to do with fertilizer. Too much you burn the plant and hurt it. Too much nitrogen you won't get fruit. I'm also unsure of how long certain fertilizers take to get into forms the roots will absorb. My reading has recommended liquid seaweed. I have an organic concentrate (0-4-4) which gets diluted. It also has 20-30 minerals that some other fertilizers may lack. It is recommended to use it when plants are stressed by insects, weather, root disease or fungus. I know the last number (#-#-4) is potassium and is essential for root health and growth which bolsters the plant's immune system. Seaweed can be used as a leaf sprayer or in watering. Hope that helps. DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email) Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound 1st Year Gardener |
Tomato Plants Wilting
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 03:34:51 GMT, "Joseph A. Zupko"
wrote: I have a similar problem in northern Ohio with all the rain we had. My tomato and pepper plants all wilted from too much rain. I put in new ones but planted them in above the ground so far so good. So the soil is not the greatest its clay. The dranage is very poor. There is nothing I can do about it because its a community garden. ??? Can't you modifythe soil in your particular plot? You wouldn't be interfering with anybody else (if I'm envisioning the area correctly). -- Persephone |
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