Tomato emergency........ please help!!!!!!!

Only time will tell.

I'd plan on replacing them, and keep them away from the property line this time. :-(

Ask your neighbor to replace the plants. Roundup is quite short-lived, so if the plants survive at all they may well recover.

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I don't want to get on their bad side over a few dollars. They're trying to clean up a messy weed strewn yard left by the old owners of their property. The plants still look healthy and are a nice green color. Just the newest growth is deformed and curled. We're sick over this.

Thank you for replying. I wish I had somewhere else to move the garden but no other sunny spots exist. On the other side of us the owners spray their gravel driveway to keep it clean looking. We've gotten the drift from them a few times, but not on our tomatoes. Tomatoes must be very sensitive as the peppers and okra are unaffected.

Time to put up a barrier? :-)

Don't just sit there and stew. Ask your neighbors to be careful with their spraying, because you have put in a lot of effort you don't want it to affect your garden, especially with food prices spiraling upwards.. If they continue, you'll know what their attitude about you is. If they ask about their spraying, be sure to let them know, as matter of factly as you can, about the correlation between their spraying and the damage to your tomatoes.

When your tomatoes come in, be sure to offer a few to your neighbors;-)

The last one, at first glance, may not seem relevant but give it a good perusal.

I believe roundup is a systemic herbicide. If your plants were healthy to begin with, you could take a few and try removing the new growth - pinch back. Kind of like sucking the venom from a snakebite (OK, I think that's just Hollywood, but the principle is the same). Only if you leave it go, you're too late. The stuff works it's way to the roots and then kills the plant.

Or maybe there was something else going on, and they wilted from too much sun, just coincidence re: neighbors. I do know one thing, if I had even slightly misted my 'mater plants with roundup, they'd be dead. Karma is a real.. you know.

That's why I'm graduating to a flamer this year. Could be fun if I don't blow myself up.

Flame on!

I've considered one of those! Where do you get them? Are they legal everywhere?

I wish! A nice 8' tall fence on both sides would be nice.

I will for sure. I already gave them some flowers that didn't fit in the flower bed. They're very nice people, really.

They still look good except for the new deformed growth. They wont die I'm sure. I will pick up more this week at Lowe's. I wish people would read the labels on products before they use them.

Mine is 7ft. 12" stone and 6' wood.

They deliberately killed my grape vines... I'm trying to come up with a good fence vine that is roundup resistant.

Some people do not care about their neighbors and are "allergic" to green!

I'm not saying yours are, I just have one that is.

Maybe the Dept. Of Ag where you live can suggest something resistant to RoundUp.

Local extension office...

Good idea, thanks!

Katey take on board what Billy said, I couldn't fault that advice or offer any other suggestions.

Your neighbour mightn't of been aware the damage the poison could cause and if you have a quite chat you might have a terrific neighbour after all.

A 'quiet' chat with your neighbour would be even better.

Om, you get them at the hardware store. They're called a "weed burner." You use propane to fuel them. They're kind of expensive.

We use them for everything but flame killing weeds here...

Mostly the SO uses ours (we have several) to pre-heat our diesel farm tractors and bulldozers in the winter, so they'll start. It's not a trick for the faint of heart, as the oil & grease on heavy equipment will light on fire readily, so you have to be prepared to put the fire out.

I have used our weed burner to burn the dried weeds/grass off a garden plot in the spring. Timing is critical -- it's got to be exactly the day the grass dries out enough to burn, but before the whole neighborhood is dried-out, so I don't start a forest fire.

We have a big hemp nettle infestation down on the ranch, but I was told to not flame kill it. It's in the loafing area where our cows hang out all winter, so the soil is real heavy in organics, which will catch fire like crazy, once it dries out.

Jan

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