After an email from our garden coordinator, I finally gave up all hope on our tomatoes. It looks like the entire garden has been infected by late blight. It's the same fungus responsible for the potato famine in Ireland. It turns out blight has been a huge problem particularly for the east coast this year: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/nyregion/18tomatoes.html . Unfortunately there's not much one can do except pull them and pray that the fungus dies out before next year's season. So up they went this morning and now there is a sad hole in the garden.
The big debate now is whether to try and replant that section with carrots or spinach. Supposedly the last day to plant in Wisconsin is August 15th. So it might be kind of risky to try this late in the game. But maybe I'm close enough to the last plant date, I'll be ok.
But the peas, beans and carrots are doing well! :)
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