Should I give up on this plant?

mikescleveland · July 25, 2015

This is a Great White plant. It was doing ok for awhile and then about a week or so ago it started looking wilty and the leaves started getting yellow with the black spots. I assume the yellowing is from a bacteria, so I have tried to remove anything with yellow or with black spots. This one also had a 3" long hornworm on it at about the same time it started failing. I plucked the caterpillar (and plucked a few on other plants). I also noticed the soil was a little soggy. I'm afraid maybe there were multiple threats to the plant and it just can't recover. Also, it has no fruits. There is one sickly flower at the top. The other 2 tomato plants (different varieties) also have very few flowers/fruits, which I'm told would be due to an excess of nitrogen.

I started my plot by tilling up a clay-based lawn (removing the lawn parts first) and then combining bagged soil and bagged cow manure from Home Depot and some homemade compost (made by my brother). I have fertilized with some organic fertilizer (here's alink to it: http://canterburycreekgardens.com/136-2/). They don't say the N/Ph/K percentages on the web page or the bag. I will call them today and find out.

Also I started asking questions about this a few days ago on Stack Exchange. Here's the question and responses from there: http://gardening.stackexchange.com/q...ent24303_20185

I'm not sure how to add photos to a post here but I will edit this with pics once I figure it out...

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July 25, 2015	#1
mikescleveland Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Cleveland, Ohio Posts: 12	Should I give up on this plant? This is a Great White plant. It was doing ok for awhile and then about a week or so ago it started looking wilty and the leaves started getting yellow with the black spots. I assume the yellowing is from a bacteria, so I have tried to remove anything with yellow or with black spots. This one also had a 3" long hornworm on it at about the same time it started failing. I plucked the caterpillar (and plucked a few on other plants). I also noticed the soil was a little soggy. I'm afraid maybe there were multiple threats to the plant and it just can't recover. Also, it has no fruits. There is one sickly flower at the top. The other 2 tomato plants (different varieties) also have very few flowers/fruits, which I'm told would be due to an excess of nitrogen. I started my plot by tilling up a clay-based lawn (removing the lawn parts first) and then combining bagged soil and bagged cow manure from Home Depot and some homemade compost (made by my brother). I have fertilized with some organic fertilizer (here's alink to it: http://canterburycreekgardens.com/136-2/). They don't say the N/Ph/K percentages on the web page or the bag. I will call them today and find out. Also I started asking questions about this a few days ago on Stack Exchange. Here's the question and responses from there: http://gardening.stackexchange.com/q...ent24303_20185 I'm not sure how to add photos to a post here but I will edit this with pics once I figure it out... https://41.media.tumblr.com/3517a4a8...s2ocdv_540.jpg https://40.media.tumblr.com/eedac568...s2ocdv_540.jpg https://41.media.tumblr.com/be712aa2...s2ocdv_540.jpg https://40.media.tumblr.com/92065976...s2ocdv_540.jpg Last edited by mikescleveland; July 25, 2015 at 12:52 PM. Reason: Add links to photos.