2006-07-24 12:44:18 · 9 answers · asked by puckfan815 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
MASTER GARDENER TO THE RESCUE.
Stop! You are not doing anything wrong. You have no problems. Everything is as it should be.
It is not an ornamental plant, it's a veggie. What do you think the leaves are for? It takes what it needs from the foliage to help make the fruit (tomato) When it takes from the leaves, they dry out, turn brown & die. That is their job & your's are doing just fine.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
2006-07-24 19:55:13 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 11⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like they may have a disease or fungus. I had some tomatoes planted a few years ago that were doing great until I started noticing these little brown specs on the leaves and also on the fruit. It got worse until the plants died. I had to mow them down. I am not 100% sure but I think they had a disease called blight. I think it was a fungal type disease. Another possibility is if you have put to much fertilizer on around the roots especially. They could be getting burned.
2006-07-24 19:52:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not an expert I have been growing tomatoes for years
Too little water
Too much water
Are there any bugs on the leaves do they curl up while still green (you got bugs or mites) You can buy a powder at your local gardening store to fix that
That's my best guess
good luck
2006-07-24 19:51:49 · answer #3 · answered by danzka2001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do you use a safe product to keep insects away sometimes they add to turning leaves brown or try not to water directly on the tomato leafs aim the water into the ground so the roots are soaked and or sometimes the sun is the culprit if the weather is too hot as it has been here in the east ....some of my plants are brown because of the sun burning them ...hope i helped ...good luck....
2006-07-24 19:58:53 · answer #4 · answered by kathy s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This happened to me this summer,, and I thought I was doing so well!! My father in law came over to look at them and he said that they had a fungus and he told me to take scissors and cut all the yellow leaves off and to not let them touch the other parts of the plant and to throw them away. Then he told me to spray was DACONIL (you can get it at Walmart).
I have done this and I spray about once a week and my tomato plants are doing great and producing real nice.
Hope this helps
2006-07-24 22:12:25 · answer #5 · answered by Raynae W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yummmm I love home-grown tomatoes.
It sounds like the problem might be Fusarium wilt and Fusarium crown rot . This happened to some tomato plants here too.
2006-07-24 19:50:22 · answer #6 · answered by jennifae 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you could be watering them too much...only water them when the soil gets dry. you should only water them daily if you live in a really hot and dry region with lot's of sun(i.e. the south, midwest, or west).
2006-07-24 19:48:30 · answer #7 · answered by curious 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some call it summer...if you can keep them alive you can get a second crop this fall
2006-07-24 19:48:30 · answer #8 · answered by Bear Naked 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
are you fertilzing miricle grow is the best
2006-07-24 19:50:45 · answer #9 · answered by JOHN C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋