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Question by Rhonda: My tomato plants are dying- the leaves are brown and the plants arent getting bigger, any ideas?
We had a huge tomato plant garden last year with tons of tomatos, this year the plants (store bought, as I usually do) are turning brown, and they are not getting any bigger. I have fertilized them once a week with Miraclo Grow and still am not getting them to thrive. Any ideas?
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Answer by Shane Moser
Depending on what fertilizer you are using it could be killing the plant. I suggest cutting back on the amount of fertilizer and maybe only doing that once every 12 days or so. The plant already has what it needs to grow. Just let it grow on its own for a little while then when and if it comes back to life slowly start fertilizing again.
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Don’t use Miracle Grow. Horse manure works best for tomatoes. Just spread a nice watered layer around each plant (not touching the plant) and they should be fine.
Also, the problem may not be you, but the source of the plants. I know all of my tomatoes and far-away areas’ plants died from the Tomato Blight last year as a result of the mold that grows when rain falls too much. Any tomatoes have a high chance of being infected with blight, even from last year. Research a little to find if your plants came from a farmer who experienced the blight (their soil is most likely harboring the blight right now); if so, find greener pastures (pun intended) by getting your plants from a non-infected farm.
Good luck!
I can only guess why your tomato’s are not doing well this year. It isn’t too late to grow some tomato’s. If you are doing everything the same as you did last year, you should have another good crop this year. That leads me to believe it is a disease on the plants your bought.
Get a pack of seeds that mature around 60 days and sow them directly into the ground. Treat the seedlings just like you did last year and you should have a good crop before fall. Do hurry, time is of the essence, Tarry and it may get too late in the season to plant.
I would not fertilize any more and also could be either too much or too little water. I would also suggest that you trim the plants a little bit. Get rid of the worse leaves, ones that do not have any buds on them. Dig around the plant and make sure the soil is loose and you can also add a little red plastic 4″x6″ square (a cheap cut-up plastic picnic tablecloth from the dollar store) staked down around the bottom of the plants. Just make sure water will drain through it. It seems to get more energy to the plants. They sell this red ground cover in the seed catalogs, but I just use the plastic. Much cheaper and it works well for me.
sounds suspiciously like blight. check out photos of this disease on line. if it is blight your only option is to burn them as soon as possible!!!!!
Hi, for tomatoes they need calcium, and to prevent blossom end rot, simply add 2 cups of dolomite
or hydrated lime to the potting mix; or mix 1/4 bup of hydrated lime to a gallon of water,and spray the
mix directly on the plants. Make sure you water the tomatoe plants everyday, because they do need
to be watered every day.
Hope they get better. Di olivarez
If you planted your tomatoes in the same spot you planted them last year, that’s your problem. Agricultural and organic studies have been done, proving that crop rotation works to increase yield. The reason being, different plants take different amounts of nutrients out of the soil. If you plant the same type of plant every year, the specific nutrients will be taken out of the soil.
Synthetic fertilizers will only work short term. They don’t actively do anything to improve the soil. In the long run, synthetic fertilizers actually make soil problems worse.
By practicing organic gardening you will improve your soil and therefore your yield. If you don’t have good soil, you will not have a good garden.
Also, planting the same crops in the same plot every year reduces yield because insects and soil bacteria/fungi that are detrimental to the plant are already there from the previous year. They now have a head start to damage the plants. That’s not to say that all soil bacteria/fungi are bad. On the contrary; there are beneficial microbes in the soil that plants cannot grow without. But by rotating your crops you give the plants new soil with the microbes and nutrients they need without the preexisting damaging microbes.
You should practice a 3 year rotation. For example: Plant tomatoes in one bed, beans in another and squash in another. The following year plant the beans in the tomato bed, the tomatoes in the squash bed and the squash in the bean bed.
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