Re: [gardeners] sickly tomatoes

Bargyla Rateaver (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Mon, 16 Jul 2001 21:28:09 +0100

did you amend the soil FIRST ??? before you planted?

Margaret Lauterbach wrote:

> It could be a nitrogen deficiency, or possibly a blight. Please be sure of
> which it is before spraying toxic chemicals at Mother Earth. Take a
> yellowed twig to your nearest coop extension office for positive
> diagnosis.  Pick a county next door to D.C.  Margaret L
>
> At 06:29 AM 7/11/01 -0700, you wrote:
> >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
> >
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