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new garden, bought premire compost tilled it good, planted tomatoes, they look good then start curlin the leaves,which turn to leather, all plants in the area don't want to grow, stunned,
9/24/20089:47:54 AM Link 0 comments | Add comment
It sounds like your tomatos are suffering from curly top. Other indicators of this disease would be the leaf petiole curling downward while the stems and branches become very stiff. The disease is carried by beet leafhoppers and usually occurs in tomatos planted neer beets or weedy overgrown areas. If you know the disease is a problem future outbreaks can be mitigated by planting tomatos more closely together than normally, and by planting beets or chard away from tomatos in the garden, as well as by keeping adjacent areas well mowed. Control of current infestations is more difficult, but covering the area with shade cloth over the plants will help to repel the insects.Try planting several tomato variets next year. Also, soil health is critical to plants' ability to fight off pests and pathogens. Next season I would use our manure compost rather than the premium compost, as the former is better suited to vegetable gardening.
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