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LuckyMommyof5
True Blue Farmgirl
500 Posts
Suzanne
OH
USA
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 Posted - Jul 13 2011 : 10:32:26 PM
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Hi everyone! I am a new Farmgirl and feel like I am posting like crazy, but I am just so enjoying everyone's online company!
I am having a weird gardening issue and wondering if anyone had any thoughts.
I have a fairly large raised bed in our backyard where I successfully grow tons of herbs, tomatoes, peppers and chiles every year. The raised bed is fenced because we have so many deer and rabbits visiting our yard and it keeps them at bay. This year, I was also given a ton of extra tomato and pepper plants as gifts after I had done my own planting, so decided to do some container gardening on our back patio, too. I had to make a large (slightly ungainly) netting "tent" over the containers to also keep the roaming creatures away. Everything was going fine and growing well on the patio, until today when I went out and the tomato plant in one of the middle containers had drooped down to the dirt completely limp. I checked the moisture level of the container, which was just fine, and the netting tent around the containers was completely undisturbed (so I'm fairly sure there was no animal interference). The leaves still look green, have no signs of blight, fungus or insect damage, but it looks...near death. All the other plants are thriving and I have NO idea what happened.
Anyone have any ideas?
Farmgirl Sister #3243
"The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong." - Laura Ingalls Wilder |
Edited by - LuckyMommyof5 on Jul 13 2011 10:36:41 PM |
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graciegreeneyes
True Blue Farmgirl
3107 Posts
Amy Grace
Rosalia
WA
USA
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Posted - Jul 16 2011 : 5:29:14 PM
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I had a tomato plant do that once - just keeled right over. I don't know why though - just know that you are not alone:)
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"
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oldbittyhen
True Blue Farmgirl
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tina
quartz hill
ca
USA
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Posted - Jul 16 2011 : 6:06:49 PM
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something got to the roots it sounds like, pull it up and see if it has any roots left...
"Knowlege is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad" |
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