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I'm going with 2, 4-D herbicide damage. I've had similar damage a few years in a row. We have large cow pastures behind the garden on my neighbors property. Maybe they sprayed the fence line and I had some carry over by the wind. I'm replanting next week.

Here are some pitures of the tomato we dug up. It had roots and we found 2 fat worms around it. A picture of the hole and a picture of the other tomato row with the deforming tops. And last, a picture of the fertilizer which has dried chicken manure in it.

I did see one top on the other row curling a bit. I'm still leaning toward the fertilizer I put in the hole. May be it wasn't deep enough and has burned the roots. I'm going to dig one up and see what the roots look like.

I bought them at my local colleges annual hort club plant sale. May be I should have hardened them off better, but the ones at the end of the row were mine I started and hardened off myself. It looks like something ate the leaves and tops.

Either side of the broccoli are the tomato rows. One to the left is fine, gets some afternoon shade. The right side is the romas and a black cherry, the tops (growth) is dying/wilting. I planted both rows at the same time. I put a little organic fertilizer deep in the hole and covered with dirt...

I think these tomatoes are Opalka's. I just did some "searches" and looks like Opalka's new growth is "wispy", which could explain what I'm seeing. The peppers are just odd, it's almost like the top leaves are burnt.

Here are some poblano peppers. I planted from seed and transplanted the same time. A couple have crumpled leaves and the one on the end is perfectly normal.

We have trees on 3 sides of the garden, and my house in the front of it. We do have cow pastures behind us beyond the trees. They are "beef" farmers and sell humanly raised grass fed beef (their slogan not mine). I don't know for sure, but I would guess they wouldn't use anything on the grass...

Seems to be the opalka's and san marzano's that are affected. The tops are a lime green with smallish leaves with some curling. The 3rd thumbnail shows them in the back.

My tomatoes are growing funny tops. The leaves are different from the top and the bottom leaves. I suspect we are over watering them and have stopped. I also added some 10/10/10 fertilizer when the blooms appeared (1/2 tsp between each plant). Could this be a disease, stress from over...

I canned 6 pints Saturday, then had to pick again on Sunday. I need to can again today. I just love this time of year. I also had several little cucumbers to use, so I decided to try a small batch of pickles again. I hope this recipe is better than the last 6 I've tried. I've had to feed a lot...

Thanks, I need to pick again tomorrow. Should be plenty to can on Saturday. So total they would have been in the fridge for 4 days. I'm good!

We buy hay, you never know what they sprayed their fields with. Herbicidal carryover is a real thing. It never crossed my mind that it could survive the digestive tract and stay in the manure. It wasn't well composed manure, I just go get it and spread it around. Lesson learned...

That is so awesome. I just stared at the ripe tomato on the vines, back and forth between the ripening pictures. It made me salivate and dream of BLT's.

P. Allen Smith has a "fake" sauerkraut recipe for canning cabbage. It's not sour at all and taste just like boiled cabbage to me. I use it for soups. It's a YouTube video I found. I do can yellow squash, have for years. I use a method that can be found on YouTube also, from katzcradul (sp?).

I had one Cherokee Purple do that this year in my garden. I blamed it on the horse manure I used. Thought it was some sort of herbicide carryover. I had one die and the other one in the same bed is unaffected.

I have picked a nice bag full of Dragon Tongue beans this week. I would like to wait a couple of days and pick again before canning. How long can I hold the beans in the refridgerator until I have a nice full batch to can? I do use a pressure canner, but I also pickle some with a brine I make...

My onions are not bulbing up. Do I need to uncover the blubs or do they pop up on their own?