I have no experience with gardening, and this is my 1st try at it. I noticed the leaves on my tomatoes were turning brown and wrinkling up. They are not dry and the soil around them are cool and damp, not wet.
Then this morning I noticed my bean sprouts were wilted and dying.
The ones right next to them are still fine
This evening I noticed my peppers were starting to get shiny surfaces on the leaves and wrinkling up.
Not all leaves are this way, it just started
It would seem I am getting wiped out in one week with my 1st vegetable garden.
To give some background I am planting in Garden Patch grow boxes. I have used Nature's Care organic potting mix with Miracle Grow already in it. I mixed 1 lb of organic garden lime in the soil and put 1 lb of 6-6-6 fertilizer in a shallow row across the box, either in between or behind the rows depending on how I planted the box. Each box has a water reservoir that is full, but all plants were lightly watered for the 1st week until they took root.
I am not using any kind of a grow light. The boxes sit in front of windows that are north facing (Florida rooms are all windows) I open the windows during the day and let the breeze come thru. The temperature outside in zone 9-b is 72 to 82 degrees right now and I have closed off Heat/AC in order to leave the windows open.
The only other thing I have noticed is there are some kind of very, very small gnats flying around the room during the day. They are so small that they can fly thru the screens over the windows. I have seen them land on the plants, but they don't stay on them long and don't seem to be harming them. I think they are coming from the St Augustine grass in the back yard. I don't know what to spray on them around plants and I would only make it worse guessing.
All was transplanted from healthy plants or seeds. All seemed healthy for 2 - 3 weeks, until this last week.
I think I have messed this up about as bad as I can so any help you guys can give would be appreciated as I am almost to the point of ripping them out and starting over again, and if I do I don't want to repeat the same mistakes. Thanks, Rich
