WHAT'S HAPPENING TO MY TOMATOES?!

[@shannonsmith9186]

When I started growing a garden about 10 years ago, I was always growing indeterminate here in Alabama. I always wondered why it seemed I never had a good harvest. It wasn't until I saw several of the videos you put out for Hoss tools about tomatoes and how to grow determinate tomatoes here in the south. I switched things up about 2 years ago, and I've had much better success. I grow indeterminate every year, for fun... not really for production, BUT, I grow determinate disease resistant varieties for my production. I'm a much happier gardener now! Thank you for really explaining the "scientific" stuff about gardening. It is very easy to understand and you talk in a way that the average gardener can figure it out.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks Shannon. Good to hear the determinates are working well for you.

[@tawnroddey]

I just love your down-to-earth way of speaking! Thank you for sharing your failure as well as success! It makes us feel we aren't as stupid and pathetic as gardeners as we feel sometimes! ❤

[@martinah6134]

I’m in Alabama as well. What determinate varieties are you growing that do well?

[@wickerbillhomestead]

I love getting the kids involved you are raising them right!

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks!

[@cjr4497]

I had the exact same thing with my tomatoes this year. Never saw it before. This made me feel better!

[@lorrieschwinn8972]

THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH FOR SHARING YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND SHARING SUCH ENCOURAGING WORDS TO US NEW GARDENERS!!🙏🙏🙏🙏💜💯💯💯

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks so much for watching Lorrie!

[@jenniferlroberts5994]

Oh, and thanks for the potato advice. I have to dig mine this weekend.

[@slee2278]

I love it because you show the success's and the failures. We all know that's part of gardening.

[@suepatterson2702]

This has been an unusual season. I've been following info on the Grand Solar Minimum and the probability of more extremes in weather conditions going forward. Colds will become colder, hots hotter, drys drier, and storms stronger. That seems to be starting. My tomatoes are always an adventure. I grow 1 plant of 20 different varieties. Since my garden is small and everything is in containers the tomatoes end up being quite crowded together. The determinates get a cage and the indeterminates get woven onto a cattle panel trellis. I can't remember ever spraying them for anything, but I check them daily for worm damage and cut off any bad leaves. I tell them to make lots of tomatoes, and they do.

[@pamelaremme38]

Its called Doplar radar and cell tower working with H.A.A.R.P and geoengineering weather MODIFICATION. It has been going on for decades. Back in the Vietnam era they called it cloud seeding. Today it is called CHEMTRAILS containing barium, strontium and aluminum heavy metals sprayed in our atmosphere. The radiation technology from cell towers and doplar STEER the jet streams (chemtrails) and strengthen and intensify storms OR lack there of. The grand solar crap is just that....CRAP junk that is spoon fed to people. THINK....THINK....RESEARCH.

[@wifigrannyl.1354]

New subscriber here.. Your kids are so delightful! My grandkids are in their mid 20's now. I sure miss having little ones around. I almost forgot to pay attention to the gardening tips because they stole the show! My tomatoes are burning up here in SE Texas & dying. I've never seen such sun damage this early. Thanks for the tater tips.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Welcome to the channel!

[@countryfrau8328]

"It's tater time!" You guys are the cutest and I LOVE your traditions. Thanks for making me smile.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Our pleasure!

[@shirleyk623]

You're absolutely correct about the temperature in May. I'm sorry to hear about your tomato plant troubles. It's hotter than usual for this time of the year. I'm in central Florida. I'm experiencing spider mites earlier than usual. They usually don't arrive until late June through August. They're killing almost every tomato plant and eggplant that I have. I don't spray unless absolutely necessary because I have a bee hive in the tree behind my property. You can see a large crack in the tree where they go into. I have bees galore in my garden, so I don't want to kill them. I'd rather just pull up the plant and replace it. I'm glad you had such a bountiful potato harvest. My harvest was better this year than any other year. Have a great holiday weekend 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋

[@euncieives5738]

Seems like everyone I know is under the assumption that the heirlooms have better disease resistance and are easier and better to grow. I grow 1/3 each heirloom, open pollinated, hybrids. You're a wealth of wisdom, Travis.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks Eunice!

[@flob4332]

50% of my tomatoes are doing the same thing, but we have had temps in the upper 90s and way to many days of high winds. I think it's too much stress for tomatoes.

[@cpnotill9264]

For sure mine outside are burning up. Greenhouse toms under shade cloth are thriving.

[@savageairsoft9259]

We are seeing some of the same issues on our indeterminates in northern Ark. Thanks for the helpful info!

[@judyjohnson1012]

Our Texas weather was the same this year. Our May weather got hotter faster than in years past, and started hot til July, to the point that we didn’t get many tomatoes at all. But I kept watering and letting them grow, and now, in October, my tomatoes bushes are ,loaded. Not sure they will hang on long enough to finish ripening.

[@rootsshootsgardenboots]

Aww 5:42 ☺️ Such great info. Thanks.

[@gerhardbraatz6305]

The danger for new gardeners is that they will get so discouraged that they give up completely. I like the idea of heritage plants but as long as disease resistant seeds are available I will grow them. I also do some heritage plants just in case we ever have to rely on them.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Well said!

[@melissakingery4393]

I think I'm gonna give up continuously because of so many issues

[@adryawebb2556]

I grow my trusty hybrids every year as well as heirloom. I have better years when the weather is mostly hot and dry much of the summer.

[@kmb4321]

All of my tomato plants looks exactly like this! Happened just last week also! I was thinking a possible herbicide drift damage. Check with your neighbors to see if herbicide was used recently.

[@LazyDogFarm]

The farmers around here haven't started spraying yet.

[@jadedengineer]

Have you bought any hay, compost, or manure? David the Good has some info about persistent herbicide use passing in manure and hey. Pastureguard i think it is.

[@kmb4321]

@@jadedengineer I've heard this has happened to a lot of folks. I make my own compost.

[@jhh8523]

​@@jadedengineerGrazon will do that. Pastureguard is supposed to not have residual but 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@snowfuller7599]

Hey Trav. First thing Id investigate into your Tomato issue would be Tomato Leaf Curl Virus. It looks very similar to this. Another might be blocked emitters on your drip irrigation. I'm no plant doctor either so its really the blind leading the blind, but might be worth looking into. Hope its just the emitters issues. Good luck with the rest of them. Love the show.

[@littleblackdogs]

I was noticing leaf curl too. I didn't know there is actually a disease. I was going to recommend shade cloth, if you think it's worth the effort.

[@Doktracy]

I lost a bunch from that one year,right after an aphid infestation.

[@MsLippy]

Great information Sir, I just posted a few days ago I tried a gifted pack of seeds, Italian paste. Well I pulled all 5, same problem. The last 5/6 years I’ve grown hybrids / determinate in Louisiana, and received the best harvest from them.

[@kittiew260]

Great update. Appreciate you keep it real & show success and losses. I am just getting my beds planted.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks Kittie! Hope you have a great garden this year!

[@fizer718]

Weathers been crazy everywhere. Had a heck of a time getting ours to germinate, had to replant some even. Ours just went in in Missouri.

[@toolguyswf]

First time visiting this channel! Great content. We remember you from "Pop up Life" Really enjoyed that content which gave us great ideas, when we started out! God Bless!

[@LazyDogFarm]

Welcome Steve! We still go pop-up camping a lot, but put all our focus on this channel now as far as the videos go.

[@michaelsmielecki6628]

Since we moved to Virginia from NY, I have found that the heirlooms struggle in the heat and humidity of July and August, and I am trying more determinate tomatoes and growing two crops a year. The Roma VF has worked for us and this year I am also trying the Mountain Spring variety for a slicer tomato.

[@cinbad44]

North Florida heat has been brutal. I do have some heirloom blushing. Need to really try some determinate soon. Garden and your family are looking great!

[@georgiaboy6426]

I have never grown anything but heirloom vegetables. I have only grown indeterminate tomatoes. I guess the reason I grew heirloom is in case it hits the fan and I wanted viable seeds. I have no idea why I only grew indeterminate tomatoes. Thanks to your tomato reviews last year, I planted some Better Boy indeterminates this year and some Celebrity hybrid DETERMINATES. Like yours, some of my Indeterminates are looking funny and one looks bad. My Celebrities on the other hand are looking great. I think I will be planting mainly hybrids from now on and keep some heirloom seeds in the freezer just in case👍🏻😬. Thank you for the inspiration.

[@ivanlangley4529]

Gonna be 103 in the Texas Panhandle with winds of 25 all day and gusts up to 40. Our weather has changed over the years. Looks great brother Travis!

[@LazyDogFarm]

Oh wow!

[@ivanlangley4529]

@@LazyDogFarm Just praying for rain!

[@googly482]

Hi there.... FANTASTIC VIDEO! Where do you buy your potato seed?

[@LazyDogFarm]

Wood Prairie Farm Seed Potatoes: www.woodprairie.com/?ref=2c1LrVP9UKW8CB Use code "LAZYDOGFARM" for a 5% discount

[@debmattosky3021]

Thanks! Love the channel!! Binge watching!! Love the content!! ❤

[@BIGALTX]

I wish you would figure out what’s killing your tomatoes because some of mine look the exact same way. Makes no rhyme or reason. I haven’t seen it before, at least not this bad.

[@LazyDogFarm]

We'll let you know if we're able to crack the riddle.

[@nimonus]

Are you also using hay/straw/manure/compost? Then you probably have persistent herbicides too.

[@MimsysGarden]

Mine too here in southeast Mississippi… no real Spring… extremely hot/humid suddenly and weird winds. Went from no rain to deluges. I’ve already pulled some of them as well. Also experiencing some early blight on a few heirlooms so … going to start a few more determinates for a fall crop. Thank goodness for long growing seasons. However, I feel like I’m having to learn what to do when all over again due to all the weather anomalies.

[@bradsanders7204]

@Lapis Manalis I’m about 2 hours west of you in Middle Georgia. Where do you buy your shade cloth from ? My tomato plants are getting hammered this year

[@pthreenfv-re-roe6854]

Too hot... Try spacing them closer and adding a shader... I'm having the same problem with the heat. Indirect sunlight helps. 👍

[@WhatWeDoChannel]

I enjoyed that, what a great potato harvest. I mostly grow disease resistant varieties of tomatoes too, I don’t have space to play with heirlooms. There is a lot of commercial tomato production around here so we have every kind of disease, even up here in Ontario! Tomatoes are super susceptible to herbicides, so I think you should at least consider the possibility that your pine straw has been in contact with a persistent herbicide at some time. Klaus

[@GreenLove1]

Just fascinating to understand the different challenges in different parts of the country. Here in California we battle drought and dry heat, but it builds gradually, so our disease pressures are relatively low. It puzzled me why people would grow determinates which seemed to finish up so quickly, vs growing indeterminates which go on and on with no problems through November as long as I gave them a bit of shade cloth during our hottest days. You can grow pretty much anything here in N Cal as long as you give the plants water regularly. Feeling blessed.

[@LazyDogFarm]

There are advantages and disadvantages to every growing region. Enjoy your long tomato season!

[@wishcloudstudios]

My tomatoes looked like that too, until I covered them with shade cloth. Maybe you could put tall T posts on either side of your trellises and do some kind of draping with the shade cloth.

[@LazyDogFarm]

I think that would work, just need to figure out how to build it.

[@debmattosky3021]

I like this idea!

[@tbradtbrad]

Those last 3 tomato plants in row look like they're the victims of persistent herbicides either in compost or hay/straw, but the others look like a nematode issue.

[@TexJudy]

This very same thing is happening to mine here in Texas. I thought it was something I was doing wrong. Thanks for sharing that it's not just me.

[@ashleehouse5204]

Same here. Just 1 or 2 of mine did the same. I thought I was just doing something wrong.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Seems like it's happening to quite a few of us ...

[@jenniferlroberts5994]

It seems a lot of folks are having the same tomato troubles, including me. I really think it's the heat or the UVs. We had great spring weather and suddenly the temperature shot up and this leaf curling started happening. The ones that get a bit less sun don't have the problem.

[@LazyDogFarm]

I agree. Hotter than normal seems to be the most plausible explanation for us.

[@charliebaucom1310]

Travis, hope you make a follow up video on which varieties performed best - thanks

[@LazyDogFarm]

Will do!

[@miraclefarm1927]

Looks like herbicide poisoning, could have been airborne or if you bought your mulch. Have had it happen to me and that's what my plants looked like. Blessings

[@heathermorgan8595]

I thought this

[@marynunn1708]

New gardener here too. Tossing out ideas, I’m guessing a few drip tape emitters might be clogged. If not, second guess is low Brix level in the sap allowing for a disease to invade. Before pulling them up I’d try a foliar spray of fish emulsion and compost tea. Best of luck. Enjoy your channel a lot.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks Mary. I checked the drip emitters and they’re good. I have bee foliar spraying some, but gave them another shot a few days ago.

[@TargaWheels]

I had a similar problem the last time I planted tomatoes and peppers. There was something eating the main stem, until it got to the middle, then stopped. One night I came out and found a snail munching away at the base. It never grew or produced after that, but just barely stayed alive.

[@garynorcal4269]

Haven't made it into the house.. Love it.. Love what i call my garden 🍬 🍫 🍭 🍬 candy.

[@Ms.Byrd68]

I believe that this is what our so-called ORIGNIAL FARMERS were dealing with (w/Heirlooms) back in the day... not being able to figure out what was happening to their 'Plants'! And it seems we have it figured it out which is why we need our HYBRIDs to go into their 50th year of 'stability' to REPLACE certain HEIRLOOMS.

[@ChristinesBackyardGarden]

Great seeing the little ones helping out. Little man in the orange shirt is going to take over your channel. 😂 He's camera ready. 😂

[@borracho-joe7255]

Sweet!!! It’s so much easier doing that with the family! And talk ‘bout family time! Thanks for letting us watch.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks for joining us!

[@79PoisonBreaker]

My tomatoes I grow like you did except a double row, on the top wire/poly tube I put frost fabric as a shade cloth just to shelter them a bit during the most intense sun times and I found it helped allot. Heirloom indeterminate. Your garden as a whole is looking great 👍

[@rogerfranks6705]

Great video. Sorry about the tomatoes. I share the same problem. I live about a half a mile of the coast I Alabama. My tomato crop never goes much longer and Han mid June. This year the heirloom varieties I planted have bit the dust already. I also assumed, to the heat. Thanks for giving me confirmation. Keep making informative videos.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Sorry to hear that Roger, but thanks for sharing.

[@Justme-sb8mn]

Sorry to see you’re having issues with those heirloom maters. Mine are just going in the ground today up here in 4b.

[@charleselertii6187]

Hi Travis. I bet it was a beautiful FRIDAY morning for you and not a SATURDAY morning for this video. You DID say Saturday... Had me checking my calendar cuz I thought I slipped a day....Hahaha. All good, Sir! Thanks for all you do! Cheers. Chuck in Jensen Beach, Florida.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Sometimes we shoot these videos up to a week in advance because of the time it takes to edit and upload them. So yes, it was shot on a Saturday -- last Saturday.

[@wandakelly2173]

I totally agree with hybrids vs. heirlooms. I’m in SC and I have lived the difference. I loved Jubilee and I’m trying that heirloom again. Otherwise, I’m growing hybrids. 😊

[@earlshine453]

Great vid. Always go for a multi-strategy planting. I'm behind the curve, so relied on direct seeding but forgot to grow spare transplants to fill the gaps. Tomatoes don't work for me in Holland, too often the wet summers outside tests resulted in poor results. Only 6 tomatoes in the GH this year, I will transplant a couple of voluntunteers from my slow compost heap, I have no clue what will happen. It's the only fun factor in growing this year. Now with veggie prices at the grocery, I'm focussing on stuff we like to eat. Like potatoes, beans, carrots, onions, garlic, broccoli, lettuce, leaks, beets, bell peppers, cucumbers and a lot of zucchini.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Good point about focusing on the easy-to-grow staples with the rising costs of food.

[@GardenKatt]

You named almost exactly what i am also growing trying to save from grocery store purchases. Now i need chickens.

[@robinwhitlatch4497]

I’m doing the same thing, grow a lot of what I eat most of and store, can and freeze for the winter. Drying my seasoning herbs and storing in glass containers to last the year as well. Don’t think we will see the end of inflation and rising cost of food, fuel and other essentials for quite a while yet.

[@leedimusttu4702]

I’m in zone 9a lost all my tomato plants this year. They looked like the ones you have. Glad to know it happens to professionals also. I may try a fall crop of tomatoes, so I can have me a god ole mater sandwich.

[@1977islander]

Me too, zone 9a, fl. Engaged my back up plan for eating tomato products through the year, local restaurant supply store, #10 tin cans, re- jarring and processing. For fresh eating, local farmers market.

[@LazyDogFarm]

I might try some fall ones this year too.

[@barbaraflagg983]

The problem might be in the way you have strung them up on the string. With a good blast of wind, they might be pulling away from the earth and stress out from the tension on the string. It seems that the plants to suffer are all on one end, so the problem might be localized to the one area. You might just have to figure a way for the plants to be elevated on a trellis. Good luck.

[@harveyrousejr.2069]

I'm in coastal NC and we've experienced very hot temps and very dry.

[@sandytmobile4467]

On some tomatoes we're finding to use a black net sun shade over them on hot day's. And there loving life on our place so it's a good investment to have that cover I can say. In fact were able to keep salad mix going and cilantro with it that doesn't like sun.

[@lindamckeown2830]

I have been straw bale gardening for my tomatoes. I grow mostly heirlooms in straw bales. It has really helped with disease problems. You might try that next year for some heirlooms and see if you have better results. It keeps the soil born disease at bay. Air born spores are still able to cause problems but it eliminates soil born problems.

[@johncoody9947]

I'm in 9a Baton Rouge. I planted 12 Black Krim plants and only 2 aren't wilting. They are mulched with rabbit barn waste, on a drip line and fertilized as well as planted with catfish scraps after fileted. It's a struggle. Lol

[@johncoody9947]

As for potatoes, I planted purple majesty and didn't know they were determinate. Out of 5 seeds, I got 2 lbs but I'm trying to get them to start making eyes so I can plant them in buckets

[@ColRubyDimplesManacha]

I'm in NC and the "UV index" has been higher than usual too, allegedly. I've had one or two of most varieties bite it too this year and was curious if it had something to do with that. It's been way hotter than past Mays in my memory.

[@lisapineywoods]

I'm in central NC, I agree. Much hotter for May, and the winds too! I've been growing for 20 years & this is the first year I've had this happening to my tomato plants. It's about drove me crazy!

[@ColRubyDimplesManacha]

@@lisapineywoods Yes, the wind has been so heavy this year too! It's beginning to look like high tunnels are the way to go, I guess.. I hope your harvests are plentiful regardless of the obstacles!

[@gman2974]

Noticed on another channel, the guy had a board or rod at the bottom holding the twine tight and steady from top to bottom so the plants aren't pulled out of the ground when the storms and wind come along. Thanks for keeping it honest and real.

[@MarkSmith-qk2rl]

That so strange. I’m not the greatest gardener but I’ve always planted indeterminate and never had an issue that bad. I do stick with the same varieties because I’ve had such good luck with them. I hope you figure it out. I had a little issue with blossom drop last year. Never figured out the main reason but I did end up with a decent crop. Really enjoy your channel. I do learn a good bit. .

[@MarthaGonzalez-jm3vn]

Hi Travis, I just found you. I use to watch you on hoss tools and then you were gone. I missed a few videos and was never able to find out what happened to you. I'm glad you are still living. Also I 'm a new subscriber.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Glad you found us Martha! Welcome!

[@kathyshinn1007]

Hello from Florida 9b. So far, my Homestead tomatoes (Semi-Det.) are doing well. My Terracotta tomatoes (D) produced a lot of large tomatoes. Now I have Arkansas Travelers and 4th of July (both are Indeterminate) coming along. All of the other types I'm growing are Determinate varieties. Ace 55, Floridade, and Purple Reign are growing well. Our weather has been hot and dry. The bugs are showing up. But, this is summer gardening in Florida. :)

[@jeanettemartin7919]

we are having a colder than normal spring here, I've just started hardening off my tomatoes this week..ugh. also, this year I ended up using a different potting soil to up pot and it hit my tomatoes wrong somehow, other plants are fine. Mainly the worst affected was a hybrid, Jet setter and an heirloom Polish Linguisa. I also grow both, heirloom and hybrid and recommend new gardeners start with hybrids....and in case of gardening to feed the family in an emergency...the learning curve is a b.....

[@adryawebb2556]

I tried starting my veggie seeds this spring using homemade compost and it's worked great. I had zero issues with seedlings like I often do with store bought sterile seed starting mix.

[@txredkim867]

In North Central Texas it has been brutally hot this May. Tomatoes hate heat, generally speaking. Our tomatoes have taken a hit, I blame it on the heat, very little rain and 30 mph dry, hot wind

[@beverlyboyce1041]

So far my Dwarf Tomato Project varieties are doing well. They r open pollinated so u can save seeds. But I tell people plant hybrids too because heirlooms r so fussy and if u need to preserve food, u want at least some to put up.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Good plan! Plant hybrid if you want to can!

[@kate739]

i don't know if this will help you but danny from deep south homestead has a video "wilted tomatoes after a rain" the tomatoes looked similar to yours. hope this helps. thank you for all your teaching.

[@fullofgracehomestead]

Taters and Maters!! You’re in the south! So many don’t understand our language! Love it and found your channel today!

[@LazyDogFarm]

Glad you found us!

[@ceharp8725]

I had trouble last year because so much sunlight block out in MO. etc...Many blooms but would not ripen even with feeding epsome salts. Finally, beginning of July I trimmed off every vine above highest bloom and every branch below lowest bloom. Boom!!! Withing 2-3 days, those puppies started turning bright red. And did not stop producing until September when I just had to stop watering. Not sure if it might help but I would mix solution of about 1 cup peroxide to one gallon bucket of water and water plants with that one day. It is great for all sorts of fungal and bacterial infections in people and plants. Then few days later, try the 1 Tbsp Epsome Salts at base of each plant before watering. Love to hear how it goes. Bless!

[@Shelzbells]

Wow that is one really nice potato harvest you got! Thats impressive. You are making me hungry. I could slice one up right now and sprinkle some salt on it and munch away! Hard to say on those tomato plants. To me, they just look a bit heat stressed. Maybe its just hard to tell on video. But I have had way worse looking tomatoes then those guys before LOL

[@SouthernLatitudesFL]

Heart-breaking to watch the maters go down but you still are blessed. Have you considered the possibility of acidic soil changes with the pine mulch? Maybe some don't like that. Btw, my 2nd language is ASL. I find myself always trying to "receive" communication from your active hands. Lol.

[@LazyDogFarm]

There have been several university studies that have debunked the whole pine straw soil acidity hypothesis, so I don't think that's an issue. Glad you appreciate my hand gestures! lol

[@SouthernLatitudesFL]

@@LazyDogFarm I didnt know that. I guess it explains why they dont help my blueberries much.

[@backtomyrootsgardening9755]

I'm in south Alabama and I have the same issues with my tomatoes. I plant extra, because I know half of them probably won't make it. Brandywine are normally the first to kick the bucket.

[@backtomyrootsgardening9755]

I also use a lot of my beefsteak tomatoes for fried green tomatoes, because if the humidity and heat don't take them out the tropical storms will.

[@LazyDogFarm]

I grew Brandywine one year and wasn't super impressed with its hardiness down here. Haven't grown it since.

[@TheSwaffordHomestead]

Great video! I agree, Its hotter to me this May than usual! I had issues with hardened off plants wilting from the intensity of the sun... I have worked on a seclude of secession planting for years to combat the hottest months... I normally plant heirlooms early, They usually can't stand The end of July & August... I plant hybrid indeterminate tomatoes where they come in before the Heirlooms give up. My third planting of tomatoes are again a fast growing indeterminate hybrid to mature about august, & plant them in a spot that gets evening shade... The second round (Hybrids) can make it longer thru the Heat. The third round being younger and in the shade will kick in when the nights start cooling down...I have my first 2 rounds in the ground, the third has just came up...

[@LazyDogFarm]

Solid succession plan you've got there!

[@dvrmte]

It's probably Verticillium or Fusarium wilt. I used to go to the trouble of grafting heirlooms onto disease resistant rootstocks. Now, I plant resistant hybrids with a few heirlooms in areas where the wilts haven't showed up yet. We just had 4-5 inches of rain with water standing for more than 24 hours. I expect to have severe root diseases showing up soon.

[@hollysharvest]

I was thinking the same thing!

[@LazyDogFarm]

That'll do it!

[@gregleach5833]

I tried heirloom tomatoes years ago here in South Georgia and I had no luck with them . They would give me 3or 4 tomatoes and they’d crap out . I like to plant big beef for my large tomatoes and several varieties of cherry tomatoes and I’ve been eating tomatoes for two weeks . I got them out and covered them with the early March freeze we had . I never keep my tomatoes pruned to a single stem . I let them grow wide and tall and thin the centers and lower leaves off . I think in hot dry weather it helps keep the roots cooler . The plants on the west end of the rows wilt in hot afternoons where the other ones don’t at all . My cherry tomatoes with colors usually give me my more exotic colored tomatoes . Great video as usual .

[@HeyJudeDistributing]

Came in from planting and weeding exhausted, hot and sweat in my eyes. Tuned in just in time for "Tater time"! You made my day. Thank you!

[@LazyDogFarm]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@normaallen2809]

This did help me not be so discouraged as a brand new gardener (1st year). I only bought four tomato starters at my big box home improvement store, two determinate or dwarfs (not sure), two indeterminate, all cherries. All of them are in containers with potting soil. My indeterminates got the leaf curl issue within a couple of weeks of up-planting them. Then the leaf miners moved in. I was late in spraying them with Spinosad. They have a bunch of tomatoes on them but I have cut off most of the leaves to try to halt the miners before I tried the spray. I hate to pull them out in case I can harvest some of the tomatoes. I think I will just see what happens and let this be a learning experience. I am in zone 9A, coastal N Florida. Just planted some okrie so we will see what happens there.

[@normaallen2809]

I did just read about the leaf curl virus and learned that early growth upward curl can be caused by irregular watering. I was definitely guilty of that as I don't have a drip system in place and struggled at first with the finger method of testing the soil moisture. I now have a moisture meter and it seemed to help. But by then the plants had been really stressed.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Don't be discouraged it all. It's just part of gardening. You win some, you lose some, but you keep going. You got this!

[@brandonc.6500]

Been a strange season growing tomatoes for sure. I'm in VA 7a. Leaf curl and stunted growth although they look relatively healthy. But usually this time of summer I'm harvesting tomatoes, it's only now that they are setting fruit from the blooms. Hoping they hang in there until I secession plant my others. Will likely do all determinates next season.

[@garden_geek]

I struggle with heirlooms here in California 9b. I grow a couple heirloom varieties just to have around for fun but my best production plants are determinate hybrids.

[@MrSymbolic7]

I had the same problem on the Texas Coast Zone 9-A , the determinates all varieties are doing great and the two indeterminate that I planted are 50/50 after suffering transplant shock , I had to baby one along and it is still hanging in there while the other is flourishing and we are in a severe drought this year on the Gulf Coast of Texas !

[@carolavant3778]

Bottom line: I need to grow food to feed my family and I'm on a peppercorn budget, so I grow disease resistant determinant tomatoes. I simply cannot gamble on the outcome. We have enough growing challenges here, and I really don't need any more anxiety!

[@LazyDogFarm]

True story. Sometimes you gotta just do what you know works.

[@jtharp9265]

Amen ! My indeterminate tomatoes are ( getting bloosom end rot ) But my Determinate all are fine ( VERY STRANGE ) plus the heat & wind in Montgomery County , Texas has been really weird .... I succession planted many veggies this season ! Due to prices at the greedy grocery stores !!!! God bless you Travis & Brooklyn and yalls family ..... I even started fingerlings again like I did last year and my sweet potatoe slips today ...... Mrs Josette Tharp Texas 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@INeedABeatDJ]

I’m South GA. I planted 42 Determinate Hybrids (Red Snapper & Red Bounty), and 13 Indeterminates (Mortgage Lifter, Pink Brandywine, Cherokee Purple, Lillian’s Yellow, Early Girl, Giant Crimson)

[@sharonmorton6734]

Always enjoy your sharing and instruction. Also great to see the family ;)

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks Sharon!

[@angelalowe5987]

I have learned that if I see that type of wilt look to pull the plant. You are right some plants are weaker than others. I am about to start some more determinate types for a fall crop June 1st.

[@jordanstamps5475]

Is that when you’ll start your seeds or when you plant your seedlings and what zone are you in? I’m wanting to do this and it will be my first year planting a second crop of tomatoes

[@angelalowe5987]

@@jordanstamps5475 I live in Oklahoma zone 6b. I am going to start seeds for a 50 to 60 day determinate tomato like early girl or another paste type. I will plant the plants out by the last week of June. My last frost is in about mid October.

[@jordanstamps5475]

@@angelalowe5987 thanks I can probably start mine around the same time if I keep them in a shady area before I plant them I’m in Mississippi 8b

[@Bryangsu]

Thanks for the rundown on the tomatoes, really appreciate it!

[@LazyDogFarm]

Thanks for joining us Bryan!

[@tmac6593]

I had the same problem with my maters last year. So far so good this year

[@OldesouthFarm]

I am in Alabama and the heat and humidity will take out the older varieties. I tried growing some tomatoes from a friend in Ohio who have been growing the seed for 2 generations. They germinated great, we’re doing well until the heat and humidity got them. Blight got them and did not get a single tomato.

[@LazyDogFarm]

That stinks, but I’m not surprised.

[@floydbarbour5098]

When mine did that in North Carolina it was wilt I’ve not been able to grow tomatoes in that part of the garden ever since they do it over and over again some varieties have more resistance than others I have found

[@steffaniewalz8444]

Travis, I have noticed some odd things happening in my plants too. Not just tomato’s. This is going to sound odd but, it seems to the sun is hotter. I am in North Texas outside Denton. Oh, I mentioned you in one of my videos. Sassylane homestead. The garden one. I hope you don’t mind.

[@steffaniewalz8444]

Also, we are not supposed to be in the 90’s either. But we are, then we went to the 60’s and back up.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Don't mind at all! Thanks for the mention.

[@chrismc1967]

Mine look the same way. Very frustrating because we know it's not blight. It's not aphid or fly damage either. My guess is that its some sort of bacterial wilt. About to pull mine and buy some from a nursery that's already started before it gets too far into the summer.

[@raymondquave2843]

It's great to include the little ones in the garden harvest ,,they will remember that experence, that's what parenting is about great job,, as for as the tomatoes they need some shade mine did the same thing I moved them in a shaded area , an they are potted an they recovered I'm down in South West Florida hot area

[@mattpeacock5208]

In the Houston area we're having the HOTTEST May since the 1880's. So yeah, it's a real thing, this May is hot!!!! Not like last year, cool and rainy!

[@angieellis7489]

Parts of Texas have been over 100+,my tomatoes are doing the same thing.

[@willagresham2978]

Our tomatoes in the raised beds are suffering from blossom end rot. The ones in the garden have been fine. We did get almost two inches of rain last week, so hopefully that helps.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Might need to supplement some calcium in those raised beds. That should help.

[@willagresham2978]

@@LazyDogFarm we did using bone meal. We applied it twice and it didn’t seem to help. I had read some plants just don’t uptake it correctly and blossom end rot is the results. Thankfully it’s not every tomato.

[@staceyberry6523]

It seems to me that may has been hotter here in south texas (9b) also, not to mention I had to plant 3 wks later than usual due to weather, my garden is struggling but producing well, y'all had a good potato harvest!

[@DV-ol7vt]

Same for me in Texas zone 8b. I planted onions 3 times this winter because the temps would drop to the low 20 and kill them, killed all my garlic and hot cold spring really delayed my garden.

[@richardhays2178]

May has been too hot. Ruined my 18 day vacation . (Deep east 8 a/b line tx) We set records several days for 3 wks.

[@staceyberry6523]

@@DV-ol7vt yeah crazy weather...doesnt it know we like to grow stuff? not to mention my garden has only tasted rain 2 times this year...but i will say for the last 2yrs Ive had no insect pressure of any kind...maybe its too hot for them too...lol

[@staceyberry6523]

@@richardhays2178 if may is any indication I think we are in for a rough summer

[@DV-ol7vt]

@@richardhays2178 yesterday for me was 68 morning and 97 afternoon the rest of the week is 70s mornings and high 90 afternoons. I better soak up them mornings as much as possible

[@ChickadeeMountainHomestead]

Also I second checking to see if someone close by sprayed herbicide. I had that happen a couple of years ago.

[@daniellacruz6672]

Your not crazy it’s hot in Connecticut too. The sun is heating up the atmosphere is deteriorating due to the earth being damaged over the last 400 years. Now we are reaping what we all have sown.

[@joelhenderson5404]

Hey Travis I planted some one year but they gaulded because of heat and humidity. I never planted them again. They don't like humidity and heat.

[@shadyacrefarm1005]

I absolutely howl laughing at the Tator Time chant Travis! Old Ty Ty looked like he was shooting 3 pointers at the beginning. I love seeing the whole family in the garden, it makes us smile. Were the diseases on the indeterminate tomatoes only?

[@LazyDogFarm]

Yes -- only on the indeterminates.

[@jacquelinethomson567]

I'm also using the string trellis method for the first time this year and I had the same symptoms on 3 of my plants ( Red Snapper and Rutgers). Symptoms seemed to appear overnight. I was ready to pull them and as a last ditch effort I sprayed them with aspirin and baking soda and they thankfully all recovered.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Nice!

[@keystoneken5032]

Tomatoes might have bacterial wilt disease. I have to grow maters in grow bags because of it. The disease blocks water from moving in the plant vascular system.

[@wranther]

Had an indeterminate tomato act up in a similar way to yours early last season. Ended up cranking up the volume of watering, drip irrigation, twice per day. Suggests to me some kind of soil borne issue or concern. A good month of struggle for the plant and normal growth returned. Will be interesting to see what occurs in the same hole this season. If you havent yanked yours all out, maybe try a direct watering scheme on one of the damaged plants. Happy Gardening! -Bob...

[@LazyDogFarm]

Things have gotten better since temps cooled and we got a little rain -- plant stress reduced.

[@ChasingDestinyBand]

My Cherokee purple tomatoes did the same exact thing, not all of them, maybe 1/4. Never seen anything like it, and others have told me the same. We are in mountains of NC so I thought maybe cool nights/warm days.

[@ChasingDestinyBand]

Also I had one row in "walls of water" that remained a constant temp, warm at night and cooler in day, they all look great... I'm thinking temp stress? Your leaves look exactly like mine on my heirloom row.