Help. My warm weather plants in my garden are turning yellow and/or brown. Here’s a rundown:

Had 12″ tomato plants, 6″ peppers in various varieties, 4″ brocolli, cabbage, celery, various herbs and cauliflower. I knew I needed to get them in before we left. At least a week before and let see how they did. Up to this point, I had been putting them out during the day, a couple of nights that were warm. One day whilest planting other seeds, my 4 year old, or “the middle child” as she calls herself, decided to feed all my plants, including flowers that had not been planted yet. She added 5 Tbls of Miracle Grow to two gallons of water and had at it. 

She’s such a sweet girl and helper my “middle child”, but she’s also very independant and very smart with a memory like a steel trap.  I think its her smarts that is her undoing at this age.  Anyway… I digress.

Immediately, I poured quite a bit of water on all of the plants to dilute the fertilizer. Worked for some, not for others. The tomatos were hard hit. By the time I put them in the garden, which I hated to do after the trauma, they had started coming back.

We left for vacation. The tomatos looked pretty good. Leggy, from all the clipings I did do get rid of dead stuff, but that didn’t bother me. It seems each year because of surprise freezes I’m always doing quite a bit of “pruning” at the beginning of their growing season. Doesn’t ever seem to keep them from turning into giants. Literally.

We left and while we were gone it rained everyday. Alot. With hail. We’ve had 13 days of rain. I knew there would be some casualties. I was pleasantly surprised at what was doing well still. Lettuce, brocolli, cabbage, cauliflower, strawberries.

The seeds, carrot, chard, spinach, kholrabi, beets and beans had come up, much to my amazement.Not all in great shape, but most of them surviving. We are south facing on a slope. Let’s say that even with my numerous ditches above rows, that there was erosion and rivulets.

I’ve read my books and hit the internet and I know a lot now about blight and fungus.  My concerns currently are this, and I’m hoping you kind people can give me some tips;

Tomatos- Splotchy brown crackly, curling leaves, with holes here and there. At the top small tight clusters of dark green leaves. When I did my snipping I noticed that the leaves and stems at the main stem are still very green inside. Our warm weather is back as of tomorrow, will sun heal these poor vegies?

Royal Purple Bush Beans- These I had just planted the seeds when we left. They came up, hit 2 inches and now look similar to the tomatos but much, much worse off. Splotchy brown crackly.

Peppers- A very sick split green color. The leaves do not have damage such as rips and curling, but look as if the hail made some holes. The hail was hard on my seedling. Again, I’m hoping sun will heal these poor fellas too.

 

Oh, I’d love to hear your ideas. I’m feeling very poorly about all of this. So much hard work.

I will put in the pole beans, pole peas, corn, cucumbers  and squash this weekend. My mother says its too late, I say thank goodness I didn’t put them in with the rest. The short growing season up here in the mountains can be a challenge.

Background on garden- this is new site on our property. As I said above, it is South facing, sun all day and is on a slope. Tomatos up top, beans and peppers in the middle next to each other. My husband, the soil specialist (really, it’s his job), says we have a sandy loam, “perfect for both retention and drainage”. You’ll see in the photos that I sprinkled a general vegetable fertilizer. This I used on the whole garden & have used this kind and brand the last three years.

 

My poor sick tomatos. I got rid of the really bad leaves and stems. These I left. I see freeze and then the yellowing.

 

…and my baby beans @ 2 weeks.

 

…all of the peppers, regardless of variety look like this.