Comments on: Yellow-bellied tomato plant

By: R.I.P., cherry tomato plant – The Inadvertent Gardener

R.I.P., cherry tomato plant – The Inadvertent Gardener — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:43:30 +0000

[...] When asked, you came through with theories and ideas and thoughts. Regardless of what was really happening, the consensus was clear: pull the sickly plant. Excise it from the garden before it spreads infection. [...]

By: inadvertentgardener

inadvertentgardener — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:33:36 +0000

JoAnn, I’m psyched for you that they kept thriving, even on the ground. Ground Tomatoes, perhaps? And I will go check out that story!

By: JoAnn Freda

JoAnn Freda — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:05:18 +0000

Oops, make that too heavy not two.

By: JoAnn Freda

JoAnn Freda — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:01:35 +0000

They were two heavy to even lift off the ground but I figured my son and I could do it together so I went out and bought super heavy duty stakes and extra wide strapping tape but before I even got home I decided I was crazy to spend $20 staking 2 tomato plants so I returned the stuff and left the plants down where they continue to thrive. I posted a story about a wonderful community garden called Veggielution here in San Jose.

By: inadvertentgardener

inadvertentgardener — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:35:56 +0000

JoAnn, on the one hand, it’s awesome that you had the astounding number of tomatoes, but yes — tragic that they all fell over like that! Were you able to save them?

By: JoAnn Freda

JoAnn Freda — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:18:28 +0000

I feel your pain. I have grown tomatoes my whole adult life but until I moved to this house with only one choice for a vegetable garden plot, I had never had wilt or any other tomato disease. After experiencing wilt I bought only the most disease resistant varieties but I still had it. Then on the recommendation of a friend I changed my watering practices. For the last 2 years I water my tomatoes just once a week, for an hour each. I hate to jinx it but I haven’t had any problems since. I even plant heirloom varieties now. I am experiencing a little tomato tragedy of my own though. Two of my 10 tomato plants (the Sugaries) fell over (pulling the cages with them) from the sheer weight of the astounding number of tomatoes and size of the plant. Good luck.

By: The Inadvertent Gardener

The Inadvertent Gardener — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:50:34 +0000

By: inadvertentgardener

inadvertentgardener — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 04:14:52 +0000

All of you have been incredibly helpful, and got Steve and I going on our research into the problem. The solution, unfortunately, was something we hadn’t even considered.

We may lose all our tomato plants. :-(

Stay tuned for the scoop in the morning.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:36:22 +0000

First, I offer you my condolences.

I am striving to grow more tomatoes than I can possible use. I lost most of my tomato crop last year to an evil fungus called powdery mildew. And the lack of hot hot heat where I live is stifling my current crop.

So, I haven’t experienced the wilting (yet), but I do know it did help to remove the infected plant and trash it (not compost it) such as Steven suggested. At least it isolated the problem.

By: steven

steven — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:29:00 +0000

I’ve never had fusarium wilt or tomato borers *knock on wood* but when something looks bad and it may be catching, it needs to go. And by go, I mean into a plastic bag. No composting sick stuff.