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Virtually all of my tomato plants have their leaves curling toward the center. They started looking like this about a 10 days ago. They are still setting blossoms and seem to be growing, but I don't like the looks of this. I think it means trouble in my tomato bed! At first I thought that gophers might be eating the roots, even though all my vegetables are on raised beds with galvanized screen across the bottom. Anyway, when I couldn't seem to find an answer I decided to dig up one of the worst looking plants to see if there was any evidence of gophers. Well, the screen is perfectly intact and there were no signs of our friends the gophers. So, it was back the the internet and more research. The only thing I can come up with as to the reason for my tomatoes to be "curling" seems to be "Curly Top" which is carried by the "beet leafhopper" My problem is I don't seem to be able to find any of these guys and they say that Dense stands of tomatoes apparently discourages visitation by leafhoppers. I have 8 tomato plants of different varieties in a 4' x 12' bed.
The strange thing was that when I was digging around I uncovered quite a few sowbugs or pillbugs. While I know these usually eat decaying matter, is it possible that they are feasting on the roots of the tomato plants? If so can I get rid of them?
Or maybe just leave them and hope they don't eat too much. They are good for recycling decomposing plant matter.
Anyway, any ideas will be much appreciated!
GPGruver
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