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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They've been watered plenty. In fact, they were positively drowned during those last major rains of 2-3 weeks ago and they started browning soon thereafter. I've grown tomatoes for many years and these ones look like mine usually do in September: branches dying from the bottom.

I already have two trellises of beans but, yeah, they're doing great. Maybe I can turn my whole yard over to beans.[/quote]

Yeah it may be blight.  This area is so favorable for tomato diseases!  :(   I had the same problem a couple years ago- i rotate between two beds but really need more time between each.  Took a break altogether from tomatoes last year and so far so good. What about butternut squash?  I’ve had good luck with that.[/quote]

I had what might have been early blight and/or septoria leaf spot last year, but my tomatoes still survived and kept producing new vines and tomatoes. I just kept cutting the sick parts. This year, I am using my other bed (I also only have two), and planted them farther apart (2.5 feet), and I mulched the soil with leafgro. I also cut the lower leaves so that nothing touches or is too near the soil. I have seen a few spots on the leaves of a couple of plants, but overall things are looking much better than last year. It's still early though so we'll see.[/quote]

+1 don't dig them up yet!  Cut off the sick parts (you should prune tomatoes regardless), and I forget how to treat early blight, but even if you don't do much, you're still like to get tomatoes!

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Yeah, tomatoes are amazingly tough plants. They just kept growing new branches and kept growing fruit (at least the cherries). Even in my 5.5 hours of sun garden. Last year I had tossed one of my spare seedlings onto an open area next to our deck where I tend to discard plant debris. It rooted and started growing. Then my husband trampled it down and partially uprooted it when doing some work there and it seemed killed. A few days later, it bounced back. I think it even had a few tomatoes by the end of the summer, without any care whatsoever, and it wasn't even a cherry. [/quote]

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