Re: All my edible's are dying

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:02:06 -0700 (PDT), June <Beinjoy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>I checked those wilted tomatoes and there's no cut worm damage. It
>can't be chemical attack because I don't use chemicals and our house
>is in the middle of 11 acres with nothing near us that could do that.
>The tomatoes are in cages and growing in stone terraces that are not
>accessible to critters. One of the wilted tomatoes is a Big boy and
>the other one is Whopper. The heirlooms like Brandywine which are
>right next to them, so far are fine.
>I think there may be some kind of pathogen in the soil since I'm not
>having, nor have had any problems in any other areas, other than the
>terraces; and a lot of the extra soil in those terraces was brought in
>two years ago when the terraces were built. My plan is, in the fall
>when the current crops are harvested  and the plant are pulled out,
>to  wet down those areas and put down clear plastic and leave it down
>for several weeks and hope the heat will kill whatever it is in the
>soil  that was causing these wilting diseases.
>
>Regards,
>June

Possibly some sort of tunneling animal?  I have one that is doing the
same thing.  I haven't pulled it up yet to see what is going on.  I
need to do that soon.