Plum tomato

QuestionMy fruit is about 1 inch long and the very bottom of the fruit is black, also the leaves are starting to curl. the plant is in a pot which drains and in sunlight 80% of the day. AnswerWhen peppers or tomat

Cucumbers/Tomatoes

QuestionMy cucumbers are curling. What is this due to? Lack of water? Also, Ive got a ton of green tomatoes on my plant, but non are ripening. If I pick them off, will I speed up the reddening (as

Texas tomatoes

QuestionOnce the spring tomato harvest is done if kept alive and cared for will the tomato plants begin producing again in the fall with cooler temps or do new plants need to be planted mid summer for the fall seaso

vegetable yield

QuestionOn the off chance if you would happen to know what the yield of one tomatoe plant, one zuchini plant, one eggplant, and squash, would be. Given that they are healthy plants of course, what an anticipated ave

Cucumbers Part 2

QuestionI am growing cucumbers, they were growing well in a pot but has suddenly wilted also the cucumber plants have the fruits growing and no signs of foot rot, but all leaves have wilted except top 6 inches. Wo

Homemade fungicide solution for tomatos

QuestionI read an on line article by Mike Mascio dated 7/3/2006 in which he gave the ingredients for a home made fungicide. It consists of the mixture 2 tbs baking powder, 1 tbs non-concentrated dishsoap and 1

Nitrogen and tomatoes

QuestionHi..we live in northern Delaware and it is obvious that we had too much nitrogen in our soil (we used mushroom soil) because our plants are huge without many blooms...my question is this..can we do anything

rotten watermellons

Questionall of my watermellons are rotting before they get bigger than a golf ball and my Zuchini is too... the zuchini the stems seem to rot and then the top of the plant just falls off i have taken them and replan

Carrot

QuestionWhy did only the carrot greens grow they came up nice but NO carrot? AnswerMike: The only reason that I can think of your carrot not developing is lack of high nitrogen fertilizer and water. The soil condi

jalepeno

QuestionQUESTION: hi don i am growong jalepeno, cayenne chillies and peppers from seeds. I keep them in the green house as we are not having a very good summer in England. What i need to know is will i have to grow

Growing Eggplant

QuestionQUESTION: This is my first attempt at growing eggplant and it seems to be healthy. My problem is it is bearing fruit already that is touching the ground. Ive read that it can reach heights of 4 feet but mine

Tomato growing in a container

QuestionGrowth is good except fruit shows rot at bottom of the tomato only. Rest of tomato is OK?? Help I dont know what to do? I live in Southern California. Thank you. AnswerMike: Fruit rot lik

San Marzano tomato plants

QuestionHi we planted a little more than 200 tomato plants this year for our families problem is satking all of them, would like to know if we can just let the vines grow on the ground and do we need to put some kin

Tomatoes in containers

QuestionHi,I am growing tomatoes in ,I think, 7 gal pots. Is this big enough? I am getting alot of leaf curl and some of my plants arent getting any tomatoes on them. I water them twice a day,as it has been in the 9

gardening/tomatoes & bell peppers

QuestionOne of our eight tomatoes (this one in a water-controller container) has yellow on the leaves and some of the stems are bent over to the point of easy to break off; sorta being real thin at the bent over are

vegetable plants- with fluid filled balls in soil????

QuestionI planted tomato, bell pepper and basil seeds for the 1st time this year. They are now young healthy plants. I have one question/concern-there are small transparent white fluid filled balls in

Buds of bell peppers dropping off

QuestionI live in north-central Alberta. I have bell pepper plants in a very sunny location but it was transplanted in an area of the plot with poor drainage (big mistake). The buds of the peppers have s

tomato (blight) disease

QuestionI finally have my going greatguns this year and now i have that fungus (AGAIN)I believe its a blight(yellowing and wilting of bottom leaves). i recently sprayed a soapshield before vaca to prevent what has b

wilting tomato plants, bell pepper plant leaves deformed. Strawberry plant leaves turning colors

QuestionI live in oceanside, ca. and I bought a bonnie big boy hybrid indeterminate tomato plant on 6/18 and planted it deep. Well, its grown like crazy but now some of the leaves are starting to curl sideways

Pepper plant leaves and stems black spots

Questionleaves with black spots and some yellow, then drop off plant. Is this a fungus, if so, what should I use to ensure I get rid of it? Thanks. AnswerDarcie: I believe that your plants are infected with