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I thought my tomatoes leaves were looking a bit curly yesterday. Today they are looking worse so I have been looking on the internet and the photo I have looked at looks just like mine. One from the polytunnel and two from outside look poorly. I cant decide what to do. On the internet it says it is not the end of the world oh yes it is. They wont die just the crop will be smaller. SOmeone from our allotment looked at them and just said it was magnesium deficiency. I dont know how to put a photo on here so I cant take a picture. Can anyone advise what I should do. This year I have left the doors open in the tunnel except one day last week when I propped the door part open.

Sometimes they do just curl a lot and it's no problem, you can often "straighten them up" by unfurling the leaves

On the other hand, do they look like this lot?

http://www.defra.gov.uk/planth/pestpics ... /qic55.pdf

If so, I think you're in trouble.

No Chantal they dont look like that. Is that good news?

Catherine, it may be a case of the blind leading the blind, but if you are able to get your photo onto Flickr, which is a photo-sharing website, i can send you an idiot's guide to transferring the picture from flickr onto your posting.

You'll need to pm me if you want me to do this.

mike

Hmm, sorry, although I've been growing tomatoes for quite some time now, I can't think of what might be affecting them.