rotting tomato stems?????

[rxkeith]

after enduring a week of cold wet miserable weather, most of my tomatoes look like
they have decided to live, and are beginning to show new growth. two of my matina
disappeared, and the third one looked barely alive. i decided to yank it, and replace it
with a spare plant. when i dug it up, i discovered that the stem below the ground was
pretty much rotted away. there was some small root growth near the surface that was
keeping the small piece of healthy stem alive, so i potted it up to try to save it since
that was the last matina. a sun gold seems to have had the same problem.


i had suspected cut worms at first until i dug up the matina that was still alive. the stem
seemed to be in one piece, just brown, and rotting below the soil, and green from soil surface up.

any clues??






keith