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August 12, 2007
Tomato Problem
Please help! I planted this Celebrity tomato in a pot because we ran out of garden space. It's been doing very well until recently: then the lower leaves started turning brown. I pruned them, but now the next level is turning brown. I water it every two days, and it always seems dry when I do.
Photos on the web suggest this may be verticulum wilt, but this variety of tomato is supposed to be resistant.
Also, when I first planted them, the soil began to grow small, white larvae which the County Extension Service bug specialist ID'd as click beetle larvae. I treated with Bug B Gone (permethryn) and they seemed to go away after the second treatment. That was weeks ago.
I sprayed heavily today with a neem-based cure-all (fungicide, insecticide, miticide) hoping it will make a difference. But I'm open to suggestion. At the rate it's going, this plant won't last more than another few days.
Posted by DJSueellen at August 12, 2007 01:19 PM
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