Weedwhacker, your thoughts on the tomato leaves was exactly what I was wondering about...being these were leaves of young plants hopefully they have no disease. Do you pull the old tomato plants up by the roots or cut them off at ground level? Do you plant them in the same area each year?
Man, I wish you *could* send some rain my way. There's been rain to the west and north of us, but little in the southeast part of Alabama. Seems there is a ridge or something that runs from down around Mobile and follows Interstate-65 northeasterward to Montgomery and then Y's off onto Interstate-85 that runs toward Atlanta...the rain many times follows along this path. Unfortunately, I'm a few miles on the wrong side of I-65.<sigh>
The humidity is like a low-temp incubator down here. The temp has been hovering in the mid to upper 80's with a few days toeing their way into the very low 90's. But, we're dealing with our usually wonderful humidity that's great for growing kudzu, privet hedge, fungus, mildew, and armadillos (I won't mention the coyotes and deer). I tell folks if they want some of our humidity to give me their address and I'll cut a slab off and mail it to them.
Here's a link to some weather graphs...some show the last 24-hours and some the last 30 days:
http://www.beeweather.com/wxgr... The wx station is fairly local...about 25' from the garden. :)
We've got rain predicted everyday for the next seven days. Most of it for 1/10th inch. Hopefully towards the end of that time the amount will increase a little bit. So far, we've just gotten a dusting of rain since we planted. But, I might get the drip-tape set up this weekend which will be a game-changer (I hope!). The issue there is having a garden hose stretched out 175' or so. If my body can handle it I may try to trench in a run of pvc pipe...down here we don't have a "frost" line...we just have "lawn-mower" and "run-over-it-with-your-vehicle" lines so it won't have to be too deep.
Ah well, maybe we'll get that predicted "tenth of an inch" today.
Ed
