It may have nothing to do with your problem whatsoever but my partners grandad told me if the leaves on my Tom plants start going yellow and withered I should sprinkle some Epsom salts around the base of the stem and water it in... Dunno if anybody else has heard of this but he says it works wonders!
Epsom Salts is an age-old remedy for magnesium deficiency, Dan. Richard's peppers are doing well in the same soil so the problem is something specific to the tom plants.
Italophile But some strains of tomatoes are prone to deficiency's like calcium deficiency. The other plants may be able to withstand the conditions as they can pick up more nutrients. Thats what I've been reading anyway. I'm not getting Garden compost from the garden center any more as I suspect that many of them get a percentage from the sewage works and it must be full of chemicals. I got a few bags from Aldi and it smelled like it was full of chemicals. I tried to grow a few sunflowers in it as a test I grew it in that and nothing else and all of them died but one and I let it grow for a month and it looked a right sorry state it was only 1ft tall so I planted it in the garden and its slowly recovering. That looked yellow too
The first thing surely if you have a problem with plants is to look and try to find out why. So many people chucking pellets, fertilizers and wot not on everything, I think this probably comes from mags and tv, where they are sponsered by the manufacturers.
The poster has already said they have whitefly, feed, epson salts or any other will not kill those. They are sap sucking.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Gardening is knowhere as easy as the tv and mags make out, just plant this or that in the ground and there you go... no not quite but it makes you buy lots of stuff.
Gardening is like parenting, needs constant attention. But not always loads of money or treats spent on them.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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Epsom Salts is an age-old remedy for magnesium deficiency, Dan. Richard's peppers are doing well in the same soil so the problem is something specific to the tom plants.
Italophile But some strains of tomatoes are prone to deficiency's like calcium deficiency. The other plants may be able to withstand the conditions as they can pick up more nutrients. Thats what I've been reading anyway. I'm not getting Garden compost from the garden center any more as I suspect that many of them get a percentage from the sewage works and it must be full of chemicals. I got a few bags from Aldi and it smelled like it was full of chemicals. I tried to grow a few sunflowers in it as a test I grew it in that and nothing else and all of them died but one and I let it grow for a month and it looked a right sorry state it was only 1ft tall so I planted it in the garden and its slowly recovering. That looked yellow too
The first thing surely if you have a problem with plants is to look and try to find out why. So many people chucking pellets, fertilizers and wot not on everything, I think this probably comes from mags and tv, where they are sponsered by the manufacturers.
The poster has already said they have whitefly, feed, epson salts or any other will not kill those. They are sap sucking.
Absolutely agree Lyn
To be a gardener you have to have good observational skills - chucking one thing after another at a problem just builds up more problems.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening is knowhere as easy as the tv and mags make out, just plant this or that in the ground and there you go... no not quite but it makes you buy lots of stuff.
Gardening is like parenting, needs constant attention. But not always loads of money or treats spent on them.