[Arid_gardener] Tomato Plant Question

[Ellen Stobaugh]

Hello to all,

I have a question about tomato plants. We have three greenhouses that the covering is heavy duty greenhouse plastic. We've had them a couple of years now and normally the tomato plants do great in them. This year is different. We started the plants early and because of the cold winter that we had here (I'm in Pinal County, Queen Creek) my husband started them in wall of waters. They did quite well for awhile, but once the plants started getting any size to them, had tomatoes on them, etc. the leaves would just shrivel up and die. The stems are still somewhat green and the tomatoes have hung on but ripen extremely fast. There are some of the tomato plants in the same greenhouse that are doing quite well and haven't had any problems. We were wondering what might have caused this. Could the humidity from the wall of waters and the greenhouses caused them to become diseased early on but not have it show up until later? The rows weren't getting watered as good as they should
 have, but not all the plants in those rows suffered. Could it have been because of that. My husband put black plastic down early to try and control weeds. Could that have something to do with it? Any help is greatly appreciated. Take care and have a great day.

Ellen

       
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