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Creole Tomatoes doing horrible

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Posted by gtucci1 Baton Rouge (My Page) on
Fri, Jun 26, 09 at 12:25

As everyone knows, we have had no rain for a long time and it's hot as nothing else so I have been watering my vegetable garden twice a day for thirty minutes with a rotary sprinkler. Everything (jalapenos, eggplant, okra, bell pepper, cucumber) is doing pretty well except for my creole tomatoes. I have the bottom leaves browning and dieing and then a number of the tomatoes are rotting on the vine. Then there are some that are cracking, but I thought that the cracking was from inconsistent watering. To top it off there is something eating the leaves right off the top of the plants and eating into small green tomatoes. If this goes on for much longer, I'm not going to have tomatoes. There are a number of assassin bugs so I am hoping they will eat whatever is eating my plant. I sprayed a plant oil yesterday to see if that will help.

Is it too hot for the tomatoes?

Should I not water as much? Should I only water in the morning?

Can I prune the tops of the plants to keep them short? Can I prune the plants low to create new growth or will that just kill them?

If I use a pesticide to deal with the thing eating my plants, which is the best to use?

I planted these tomatoes in February, so could they just be coming to the end of there life?

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  • Posted by natal Louisiana 8b (My Page) on
    Fri, Jun 26, 09 at 12:57

You're watering too much. A good soaking a couple times a week is adequate, even with our drought. I don't know what kind of oil you used or why, but I have a feeling that was a mistake. The munched leaves and tomatoes are probably caused by the tomato hornworm. Look very closely for a fat green caterpillar with a red "horn". When you find one squish it!

I planted my tomatoes mid March and their production is winding down. The cherry tomatoes will keep on producing for a while longer, but it's too hot for the flowers on the others to set fruit right now.

Here is a link that might be useful: couple pics of a tomato hornworm

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sometimes mockingbirds will peck holes in my tomatoes and I guess eat or drink the fruit. I guess an owl statue or bird netting could help.

  
 

 

 


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