Tomato plants suddenly dying!

[MossRoad]

I tried to attach a few pictures of one if the plants. Hopefully it worked.

The root system seemed very strong on the plant that I removed. No indication of moles.

Hopefully the pictures help. Thanks for the advice guys.

I can't see any yellowing of the leaves and its the entire plant limp, not working its way up or down. Unless I'm not seeing it in the pictures. Is the ground saturated under them? They look overwatered to me. I'm raising tomators in bucket for a few years to get a disease out of my garden soil. One of the buckets drains plugged and my plant wilted and fell over. I drilled holes in the bucket, the thing drained and two days later it popped back up. So, I see you have plastic mulch, which is great for weeds and saves water because it blocks evaporation, but it also traps water, so just see if the soil is saturated to satisfy my curiosity.

Also, moles do little damage to plants and are actually benificial to soil areation and water penetration. Moles are meat eaters, not vegitarians. They eat primarily earthworms and ground insects like grubs, not plants.

 

[Dishpointer]

Aphid infestations will show the same symptoms. They pierce the plants and draw out the moisture. Check for tiny bugs on the stems of the plants and if present, spray/dust with sevin.

 

[troutsqueezer]

Hit the appropriate forum and ask there. You'll get some good answers.

Tomatoville® Gardening Forums

 

[MossRoad]

How's your 'maters this week? Just curious.

 

[CliffordK]

My biggest problem is that I'll go out to the garden and find my tomatoes with absolutely no foliage on them. But, I know what causes that problem (brown, white tail, and weigh about 200 lbs).

I decided to try to plant the tomatoes on my back deck this year to see if I can do a little better.

It sounds like something has been compromising your root system. Did you buy nursery stock? Perhaps you should talk to the nursery.

 

[stuckmotor]

The linked article gives a list of various resistant varietys and what they resist. If you can find something in the list that none of your affected plants are resistant to. You might have the culprit. Resistant Tomato Varieties - The Best Approach to Wilt and Nematode Problems

 

[joshuabardwell]

My biggest problem is that I'll go out to the garden and find my tomatoes with absolutely no foliage on them. But, I know what causes that problem (brown, white tail, and weigh about 200 lbs).

You know what goes good with tomatoes?

Venison!

 

[MossRoad]

You know what goes good with tomatoes?

Venison!

And rabbit, too.

 

[bhostasa]

Well, I'll cautiously say that they look a tiny bit better. Whatever was affecting the tomatoes has spread a bit (4 tomato plants, 3 pepper plants). The plants feel a little stronger but they're still nowhere close to where they were a couple of weeks ago.

I've been trying not to panic and put tons of chemicals on them. I try to avoid that method anyway but i wanted to let the soil dry out and see if the heavy rain was the culprit. I'm gong to give it another couple of days and see how they're doing.

At this point, cucumbers, strawberries, basil, cilantro and mint are all doing really well. Fingers crossed on the sweet corn, peppers and tomatoes. Thanks for all the advice guys. I'll keep you posted!

One more thing, I've had really good luck with critter control by using the liquid fence around the perimeter of the garden. Just throwing that our there!

 

[joshuabardwell]

I reckon you can quit worrying about basil, cilantro, and especially mint. I have some mint growing ornamentally in a garden bed near my house. When it gets long and leggy, I just mow it down with the weed whacker, and it comes back, fresher and stronger than ever. Mint will spread like a weed, given a chance. You can't hardly keep it down.