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sybram wrote:

Ok, so the top half growth of my tomatoes has curly, frilly leaves. I've read what TAMU says about it, and the Broad Mites or yellow leaf curl virus seem to be the only things that fit.

They want you to send samples off to be tested before trying a remedy. I really don't want to wait that long to get started on it.

I have a microscope, and neither my husband or I can find any 8-legged mites on them or anything that looks like the eggs they describe. Can anyone tell what's wrong by looking at these pics? Or if I have to scrap them, how do I get rid of any mites or virus that would surely be in the soil. BTW, this is a 10' X 20' garden bed with only tomatoes and squash in it. The squash all look fine. And we're out in the country, pretty isolated, so there's no herbibide drift, etc.