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| Is this herbicide damage? It sure looks like it to me. Can it be anything else causing these distorted leaves? |
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- Posted by SunshineZone7 (My Page) on Wed, Jun 25, 14 at 14:47
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| Possible, even probable. Do you know for a fact that herbicides have been used in the area? But it is minor in the photos so other than monitoring it for further development I wouldn't worry too much about it. Dave |
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- Posted by SunshineZone7 (My Page) on Wed, Jun 25, 14 at 15:42
| We use nothing in our yard. However neighbors use weed and feed type products. Last year my very young tomato plants had herbicide damage (posted pics on here) so I have since read up on it. These plants this year are big...over my head, and have green tomatoes on them, so i hope they will be OK. This makes me want to get some land far far away from people! I have an organic garden and do not want other people tainting it! People are very uneducated when it comes herbicides and pesticides. I grow all my veggies from seed, it takes time but I love it. When this happens it is very upsetting :( |
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| That is very minor damage and your plants will be fine. |
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| I too have some tomatoes with potato-leaf foliage which look very healthy, but upon close inspection, some of the leaves look just a little bit distorted. Our neighbours probably are not close enough for herbicide drift to be a problem, so I am crossing my fingers and hoping that sometimes the leaves just are not perfect. I've decided not to get too worried about this. I used just a little bit of coir (peat) around them all, and I wonder if it could possibly be something to do with that. Time will tell for both of us, I think! Linda |
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| If your neighbor is using granular weed n feed, it should not be a problem but if they use liquid spray type then there is a possibility of some drift, depending how the two properties are situated. Peat or coir should not be a problem. Most , if not all, potting soils have them. |
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| My friend who contributes his grass clippings to my compost pile finally admitted to using weed and feed on his lawn. Now I am thinking that my compost is tainted because my tomatoes are suffering from leaf curl. We have also had a lot of rain, more than usual. The compost I used this year is over one year old since I didn't have a garden last year. What do you think? |
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| I'm thinking you found the cause of your problem. But it is minor damage as already mentioned - likely given the age of the compost. I wouldn't use the current batch of compost until next year to give it more time to dissipate but I wouldn't accept any further grass clippings from the neighbor. Dave |
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| Your plants may recover. But I never accept compostable material from neighbors. They lie. But at least yours admitted using them. |
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| The first (or second?) year I planted tomatoes, full of beginner's fervor, I had some big herbicide damage midway through the season. I recalled that my neighbor (who is a wonderful neighbor) sprayed Roundup on gravel driveway areas (some of which were right next to my beloved tomatoes). Neither he nor I knew at the time how sensitive tomato plants were, and he probably didn't even know I was growing something like tomatoes at the time. Heck, I was using herbicides in my own yard at the time. I believe my neighbor has every right to tend to his issues as he sees fit. Fortunately, he is the most amazing neighbor one could hope for, so when I explained to him what I had learned, and asked him if he would let me try to fix his weeds the next spring to see if I could solve both of our problems, he magnanimously agreed. I settled on trying Preen pre-emergent on all the areas of his driveway that I thought were in drift-distance to my plot, and it turned out that he was even happier with those results than the Roundup results. He asked me what I used so he could continue it in the future. |
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