I thought tomatoes were EASY to grow??? how come everything else

[NMDemDist2]

is doing great, but the mater's leaves are all turning brown and they're dying right and left??

looks like something is chewing on them, but nothing else is getting bothered?

I have small (they never have really taken off) maters, eggplant, radish, lettuce, peas, broccoli, carrots and marigolds all in the tub. everything else is doing great! but my maters are all dying!

:cry:

[Richard Steele]

1. I wish I could help, but I've always had trouble with tomatos myself.

Condolences, AZDem. :hug:

[BOSSHOG]

2. Marigolds

aren't necessarily good for tomatoes because they attract their own pests, although they do battle nematodes pretty good. Does your tub have good drainage? Its early in the season, you can still have another planting of tomatoes. Mine are doing pretty good so far. The greatest advice I ever got from a wily old gardner was "plant em and then just leave em alone." I hope ya have a big ole crop of maters to share with neighbors this summer.

[NMDemDist2]

3. it has a tub drain in it LOL

I think maybe I'm overwatering them. the other plants in there need good water, I'm gonna ease off the water on them and see if that helps

or just go buy some foot tall plants :shrug:

[wildeyed]

4. Can you buy some seedlings at the hardware store and start over?

My beans and beets are decimated, but the tomatoes are growing like champs. I usually have good luck with maters, so I don't know what to suggest. :shrug:

[ThomWV]

5. Everything you list there except the tomatoes require high pH soil

Your eggplant, radishes, lettuce, peas, broccoli, and carrots all require slightly alkaline soil but the tomatoes require slightly acidic soil. Could be your soil has a high pH which is fine for most of the stuff, but not so fine for the tomatoes. Kind of hard to imagine though, tomatoes like acidic soil, but I've seen them grown in everything.

[KSinTX]

6. I've always reeked at container gardening

but I've got about 20 plants that are about a week from harvest (TX) with some pretty healthy fruit. Compost heavily, good watering about once a week, compost tea/Garrett juice mid-week. Tomatoes are prone to fungal infections so I usually plant heavily in corn meal. (Had to add it after the fact this year because each plant was a volunteer!)

You might also want to consider moving them and the marigolds into a separate container. I saw upthread something about them having their own set of problems but I've also read their beneficial companion plants.

GOOD LUCK TO YOU!!! I mean that. Tomatoes for me are a lot like weeds: if you really, really want them to grow, they balk at the prospect!! :hi:

[Kittycat]

7. I can't help with containers - we plant right in to the ground.

with marigolds on either side of each plant.

[uppityperson]

8. Look for catepillars, worms, that sort of thing. Friend lost most leaves

on tomato really fast, finally found a green catepillar/worm thingie on the plant. It was hard to find it because it looked like another stem of a leaf. Tomato hornworm or some such.