Posted on 07/17/2009 4:00:25 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Now that is the dream home if I ever saw one.
OK, that’s it -— I now OFFICIALLY hate you! (just kidding)
Your house is magnificent and I am totally green with envy over that kitchen!!!!!!
Wow! The hail just ripped right through the webbing on those deck chairs in one of the pictures!
Sorry, tubebender. :(
I found some heirloom tomatoes at a roadside stand selling flowers and vegetable plants. Got a Mortgage Lifter and a Cherokee Purple. Then I found three at Walmart, three Brandywine Pink. Will see if I can get them to produce before it freezes.
I'm in North Carolina right on the I-95 corridor. I have some big, fairly vigorous tomato plants in my garden in which the tops are starting to yellow. The veins in the leaves remain green at first while the rest of the leaf turns yellow; then finally the whole leaf goes. So far only about the top third of the plant is infected. The two worst plants for this are some cherry tomatoes, but some of my slicing tomato vines are starting to exhibit the same signs.
It has been a little dry over the past weeks, but we've had some rain over the past few days and I've been watering, so water stress should not be a problem. There are no insect pests that I've noticed, although it's likely that there's an aphid or two in the mix somewhere. Over the course of the summer I've fertilized my 25x25-foot plot with ten pounds of commercial 10-10-10, watered in.
What do you suppose is causing the problem?
Maybe gardengirl can help out with your question in post 187.
Hey Red, Oberon!
At work so I’ll have to keep this short.
Are your plants in the ground? Any disease that tobacco can get, maters can get. Not a definite answer here, but it sounds like your maters have some kind of blight.
More later. :)
Hope it doesn't spread to the hot peppers.
but 30 miles to the west (in the plains) seems to be a constant problem.
Do you mean to the east of you?
If you can’t find the answer here, you don’t have a problem, LOL! (Look at the pix of fungal and viral problems.)
My guess is blight, but it could also just be weather related because it has been one cool and dry summer in a lot of the USA.
Blight starts from the top of the plant and wilt starts from the bottom, usually.
http://www.avrdc.org/photos/tomato_diseases/index.html
Thanks for the link. bookmarked.
Thanks, I did mean east. The front range mountains rise abruptly out of the plains in this area and run in a N-S direction. The high risk tornado area is generally considered to be east of I-25, but they occasionally happen between the mountains and I-25. Here the risks are lightning and forest fires. Oh, bears too. Last week my next door neigghbor just got a dome tent for camping and assembled it in the driveway to practice setup and takedown. It was left set up overnight. A big black bear came out of the forest during the night and just attacked the tent, ripping it to shreds. There was no food inside and it was new so not even old food smells. I know my fences around the garden won't keep a bearr out so I am keeping my fingers crossed. I also am making sure I have bear defense handy when working in the yard!
Sorry for the all-italics post! I accidently used the forward slash insteadof the back slash to remove italics.
Sorry about your maters. It’s a fact of life here on the east coast. There are so many diseases that get maters anymore, it’s hard to tell which specific one you have. All my maters look like yours.
OTOH, now is a perfect time to start a late crop. Hopefully your local garden center will have some late plants for just that reason. :)
Apology accepted but not required as I have done similar many times myself...
You’re welcome! :)
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