I think my tomatoes have blight. bummer. This happened last year. My mom-the all around expert on all things growing-told me that it's just normal yellowing of the leaves, and that they just need some food, but I'm having doubts. I'm paranoid from last year when my whole crop of tomatoes caught blight right as they were turning red! Even the one in the container. So I'm a bit worried. Time will tell.
Also, I found in my book that tomatoes need up to 5 gallons/week of water! So that could be part of the problem. Good thing it's rained so much this year. But you also don't want to water the leaves of a lot of plants b/c they are susceptible to diseases that are brought on by wet leaves. Most of the time I water right at the base anyways just so I know it's getting right to the roots and not sitting on the leaves and evaporating. At my house, water is short since we are on a spring; so I've been using rain buckets to catch gallons of water out of our gutters for the hot, sunny days. It's been working out really well! As long as I use it right away, then we won't have mosquitoes breeding in it; that's the only thing I worry about.
Ta Ta for now! I'll take pictures when it's sunny!
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