Possibly the plants are being under watered or underfertilized. What you are seeing is the plant robbing the oldest parts for nutrients in attempt to finish the reproduction cycle. More info needed to be more precise. Regards Ed Muckle grower@nethop.net www.21stcenturygardener.com -----Original Message----- From: Stacey Marien <samarien@yahoo.com> To: gardeners@globalgarden.com <gardeners@globalgarden.com> Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 6:35 AM Subject: [gardeners] sickly tomatoes >Folks, > >My tomatoes look sickly. I have planted 3 Roma plants >and 3 Celebrity. All the plants have tomatoes on them >but all the lower leaves (and some upper branches) >have turned yellow, then brown and died. I'm pulling >the dead stems off and all the tomatoes look fine but >I'm wondering what's wrong. > >STacey in DC > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail >http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ >