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Re: Wilting tomatoes

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Ann,
On another list I belong to (for western colorado gardeners) the following 
was posted as part of the weekly update the extension office does.  This 
might apply to you...

Dial-a-Garden Message
For the Week of July 30, 2001
By Susan Rose, Horticulture Technician
Colorado State University Cooperative Extension
Tomatoes that are not setting fruit are reacting to the intense heat.  Once 
the temperatures settle down during the coming month, fruit-set will 
improve.  Providing some shade now will help, as will applying an organic 
mulch, to keep the roots cool.  Be sure to keep your tomatoes and other 
vegetable crops evenly moist, to prevent blossom-end rot.  If lower leaves 
of tomato plants are beginning to yellow and wilt, your plants may benefit 
from some additional nitrogen.


<br><br><br>Ann
Zone 4, Basalt Colorado



>
>Bottom branches are turning nasty wrinkled brown, more than usual late 
>season
>wilt. These are heirlooms (Russian Black, Cherokee Purple, Big Rainbow, 
>Amish
>Paste). Tops are still green and flowering. Is this a fungus? What can I 
>do?
>Ann in Knoxville



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