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Tomatoes are wilting…HELP
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Tomatoes are wilting…HELP
We started our tomatoes from seed, in a small nursery with grow lights. We planted them in our flat garden. All of the plants in the flat garden soil are starting to wilt despite ample water. We have a black walnut tree 60+ feet away and downhill from our garden. Help is needed, why are they wilting?
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Many possible reasons.
1) transplant shock, if the plants were not hardened off after grown inside ( getting used to the sun ) the sun can do them in.
2) dry soil if you dig down into your soil and it is hard, or it is not wet the plants may have a tough time adapting to those soil conditions.
3) Soil that has long term herbicide in it which can last like over 10 years can cause a problem.
4) Virus, bugs can bite your plant and give them a virus that does in the plants.
These are some options there can be many more reasons.
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Thank you for the reply. We planted these tomatoes May 15th or before. We give them ample water. Finger test two knuckles down is damp. Black walnut tree 60 feet away and down the hill.
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That is good for moisture, did you harden off the plants for them to adjust to sunlight?
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They were robustly healthy and a few days ago. We grew squash and cucumbers in that same place last year. This year we put in six homegrown plants we grew from seed. We put in marigolds and onions to make a fence line against rabbits, etc.
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What is your location? Here in the deep south we don’t usually grow tomatoes over th hot part of summer. We replant in the early fall. It’s called three season gardening if I remember.
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I find variety selection is important too. My Indeterminate Amish Paste tomatoes are far behind the other Determinates like Heinz 57. Everglades tomatoes are the only Indeterminate variety that can take the heat from my experience. I get my seeds from https://www.southernexposure.com/ as they have a wide selection of seeds bread for the south.
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Make sure you’re not overwatering, check to see if the bottom of the plant near the soil looks whiter than the rest of the plant or if any part of the plant looks soggy. Tomatoes need plenty of water, but being downhill it is possible to overwater them. Adding something absorbent on top of the soil like mulch could help, you might also want to check the amount of nitrogen in the soil, and check for tomato worms. Introducing ladybugs to any garden to prevent other pests can be a huge boon to the garden.
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How are your tomatoes doing now? Have they recovered? We have to pull most of ours out due to grazon poisoning.
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