Protect your tomato plants after heavy rain

Gardening in the Myrtle Beach area

Published: July 18, 2013

Heavy rains are turning Brent Barbee's farm into a quagmire, and the tomatoes are splitting and some rotting on the vine.


By Debbie Menchek — Gardening

This summer’s wet weather is wreaking havoc with tomatoes – cracks, yellow leaves, curled leaves, wilt, watery flesh, rot, worms.

Wet weather has cut down the need to water, but the moisture has been uneven and sometimes excessive. That and the accompanying reduction in sunlight have not been kind to tomato plants.

Bacterial and fungal diseases are more likely in rainy weather. Wet weather leads to leaf diseases and wilt. It also aids the development of disease in both green and ripe fruit.

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