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Question by tin type: Advice for cause and treatment of yellowing tomato plants?
I keep having problems with my tomato plants starting to turn yellow and die from the bottom leaves up, usually when they’ve gotten a foot or so tall, and usually anywhere from well before to right in the middle of producing several tomatoes at the top that continue to grow until the yellowing reaches them. The plants continue to grow and produce, but the yellowing also continues to crawl up them. I do feed them and keep them well watered, so I’m not sure what else the problem may be.
All I do know is that I never remember having this problem 20 years ago, whether they were fed or not – and it’s more likely that they were not at that time.
Any help is more than appreciated. Thanks!
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Answer by Brian
I think your soil lacks nutrients. You should just use an all purpose fertilizer.
The liquid ones that you can just dilute in your watering bucket. Be sure to follow the instructions because if you don’t, you can end up burning the roots of the plants from the fertilizer!
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Hello, I’m growing son heirloom black krim tomato. I would like to know is what causes for the leaves or around the leaves to look like they are brownish spots? Please help!! I would have to hate to loose my tomatoes.
I just started mt heirloom garden about a month ago. So far i have planted white soul, captain lucky and green zebra tomatos. as well as christmas pole, rattle snake pole and provder beans. I’m so excited i cant wait for them to start to produce fruit!
This will be my first year ever growing tomatoes and I was given a bunch of heirloom tomato seeds. This video makes me very excited. THanks!
This will be my first year ever growing tomatoes and I was given a bunch of heirloom tomato seeds. This video makes me very excited. THanks!
Cherokee Purple is the best. I have grown over 50 different cultivars and it is the winner.
Best in flavor and production is the Cherokee Purple. I have grown heirlooms for years, about 50 cultivars. My plants, in grow trays, are now up and will go into buckets in Mid-March. Suggest you get insect and fungucide sprays. Go to YouTube and search Heirloom Tomatoes. It will tell you all you need to know. So. Ga.
I honestly don’t know about Texas. I live in south florida… so I plant my seeds in mid aug. since it rarely gets to frost/freezing temps, my crop is ready jan-march. But spring and summer are usually too hot.
I will be growing heirloom tomatoes for the first time this spring. Any advice you can give me on how to grow a healthy tomato plant that will give me the best yield will be appreciated. I live in North Texas, zone 7b. It gets very hot here during the summer months. Thanks.
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Well done! Great explanation of the heirloom tomatoes, beautiful displays. Thank you
I expected some sort of list of the best tomato varieties.
Im no expert you might have a disease but I know from growing plants and listening to garden call in shows over watering kills more plants than anything else. Take a couple of yellow leaves to your local gardening store. A web site for a local one for me is
http://www.myflowerland.com/
or on FB
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they have helped me a lot in the past
this is easy as tomato plants need a very large amount of water plus they are hungry little devils and need lots of feeding tomato food other wise you may not have proper drainage and also check for pests
My best guess, without looking at your plants, is that you’re drowning them.
If the leaves are yellowing from the bottom up, and the edges of the leaves curl *up* slightly, (rather than droop downward on the edges), that the classic symptom of too much water.
If they’re in the ground, water them well once a week.
Too much fast -release fertilizer (like Miracle-Gro) also causes tomatoes to exhaust themselves early.
I recommend planting with some compost, and then when they start to flower, a side dressing of an oragnic, slow-release fertilizer. And that’s all they need.