Love that u called BS str8 up. My green thumb mumma cant get plants to grow well and the soil dries out really fast - gr8 for the washing line, not for the garden. Being she is surrounded by farm land sounds like what your talking about - Maresi
I'm in Pascoe Vale and grew about 30 tomato plants from seed (4 varieties). No problems whatsoever. That glyphosate has a lot to answer for. Some suspect it maybe the cause of Coeliac disease, which I have. Farmers spray wheat so they can harvest early and get a second crop in for the season. Yes they've definitely been chemtrailing as others have suggested.
I'm in pascoe vale south. My tomatoes planted mid September all failed exactly same problem with curl. All I have in my garden is vasilis plant mix and I use eco booch and liquid gold. Something definitely affected mine
My tomatoes were crap this year and I live in a great climate, Never seen it before but I know there’s chemicals in the air we didn’t have before , my next step is plastic houses where I can control what goes in them You are on the right track 👏👏
@HardCandy-fd4vzI live in NSW , best climate in the country, best soil and manure one day thriving next day dead , very strange . Thanks for your reply
I live in Kansas USA, and I grew somefrom seed they curled. Got some from neighbor about 1/2 mile away they curled, bought some from store they curled. Tomatoes
Yes Vasili, I've been gardening for over thirty years, you have also noticed things that something's going on. I'm not sure about glyphosate, but definitely without any dought in my mind something is coming out of the sky in the rain. I too have been having trouble in the last few years with bad germination rates on lot's of many things as well as the soil hydrophobic problem. I also must have a tin foil baseball cap on, buti feel much better now knowing that someone like yourself jas been having similar garden problems, after many years of gardening behind us. Weird or what. ? You asked so this is my answer. I hope it helps everyone.
I'm in Niddrie, I had the same issue with my tomatoes this year. I was suspicious that one of my neighbours had sprayed during a windy day, and it drifted into my backyard. Your theory makes more sense since the problem is more widespread.
Could it be the manure mixed in the soil. Herbicide can be sprayed on the hay fields, the animals eat it and it passes through their gut and comes out in their manure.
I am in in Mill Park and 90% of my tomatoes were affected this year. They were planted late November, early December and I concluded it was Glyphosate sprayed by a neighbor or council. My tomatoes planted later were not affected. You are on the money.
Biofuel has glyphosate and is exhausted from transport trucks that use biofuel so it’s around freeways and heavy traffic areas. As per Stephanie Seneff MIT.
I am located on the NSW South Coast and all of my tomato plants did this this year. Ive never seen it before. The local garden centre yesterday was telling me that it has been across the board this year, all customers coming back blaming the plants that they have purchased. I advised this lady at the growing centre that the only tomato that hasn’t done this to me this year is a tomato seed that germinated in my chook yard, but I have got these tiny little tomatoes that are even smaller than Tom Thumb tomatoes. We have had a black hard shelled tiny beetle this year that has a shell that strong we can only bust it between your finger nails, even pounding it into the ground under your feet hasn’t been enough to kill them, these rotten things are about the size of a pin head and yet again a beetle we have never seen here before. I have gotten that cranky about what’s happening to my vegetables this past year that I have made the decision to encase every bed with netting to stop any of the butterflies getting in which will work for my brassicas but anything that needs pollination will go into the open beds. I hope my winter crops do a lot better than my dismal summer crops have.
No you’re right , I am in Hallam and it happens to me this year the same lot of seedlings planted in different spots in the garden ,the one in open garden bed are dead and the one sheltered are growing.
Hi mate I'm sure your going to get some comments on the leaf curl.YES 100%in the air.s Suggestion, gloves on & take samples of curly tips,place in zip lock bag,place in shaded spot,room temperature.allow sample to naturally sweat out ,then do a toxicity test on the sweat. Aerate soils.
You are definitely on the money . Thank you for exposing just one component of how tocic our air has become with chemicals. We get acid rain and if it is strong enough to permanently leave marks on our car windows imagine what it does to all vegetation and our natural environment. If you sleep in a soiled bed its the end of living and the beginning of survival!
Your right Vasali.I bought a load of organic planting compost from a local cockie made from far manures . Same thing happened and I to did some research and found that the problem was chemical residue from animal chemicals and glyphosate in his "oganic" compost.
I look forward to the results. I certainly have the same issue even with my small raised beds of drying out. I have been digging out about 50 -60 cm of the soil and laying carboard down to help retain the moisture. At least I get a nice crop for that season.
I think you are right too Vasili, I live in an area where cotton and wheat are grown within 100km from me..... a friend of mine lives about 30km from me and was complaining about her tomatoes leaves curling up as mine were too.... and guess what? My Big Malaka tomatoes never did well because of it... also the Russian Black and Yellow Ox heart, none of them grew well even though I gave them all your good stuff..... the only difference is the farmers spraying..... how on earth do we fix this... I will be putting a cream coloured shade cloth over everything this coming winter..... I really hope that this will help, it will help with frost and should help with stuff falling from the sky too!
I've seen a similar situation years ago on a friends property but with grape vines, the day after the Council had been around spraying the weeds on the roadside and around the power lines the grapes curled and started dying. The whole plant was dead after a week. I think a few other plant varieties were affected but the climbing grapes over an arch was the most obvious as it was a focal point and high up.
This is what I suspect happened to my mature Magnolia tree in my front yard. A few years back the council started spraying the park across the road for weeds. Prior to this the park was used by a pony club (for decades) and they used trimmers. As soon as the pony club vacated, out came the poison.
ALL of my tomatoes did this. I planted a lot, all in different beds. Not only tomato plants, flowers did this as well. In particular I didn’t get any flowering from dahlias, their buds were warped Little Rock’s.
I’ve had the same Curley leaves on tomatoes a few years ago in Drouin. I threw them out because I thought it was a disease. The one next to it will wasn’t damaged. We don’t use glyphosate ever. So airborne sounds believable.
I had aminopyralid posioning also as a brand new garderner.Check you straw and any outside compost/manure sources. It only effected the one raised bed that had a local gardening company compost. I planted different soil in a tower and those did amazing! After research, it destroys tomatos, bean, and other broadleaf plants. My tomatoes looked exactly like the damage pictures on the Google- rapid stem growth, curled leaves, and starting to have mutated stem growth. The catepillars wouldn't touch them at all. They were quality plants that were growing amazing from rabbit fertilizer and growing great until I planted them in that raised bed.
i built a polytunnel for my summer planting, with 2'' polypipe, star pickets, ceiling battens for bracing and timber door stop trim to screw the plastic into the ceiling battens- sandwiched between. I did it because of the large amount of 'stuff' left behind the inordinate amount of flight paths overhead- 😉 i live in a geographically isolated area far from high traffic aviation. i built an umbrella, quite literally. all tomatoes outside the 'umbrella' suffered with leaf curl... same soils, same ferts, etc, only differences between the two was one was handwatered at soil level, the other got rained on... open ends on the polytunnel and 900mm open sides also... i threw a shade cloth over it for Jan/Feb as i'm subtropical Qld.
LOL! The dogs interacting are father and daughter. If you look closely, you will see a definite height difference between them. Kara the oldest of the pack does not play "run around games'" any more! She now is more into guardian, protective mode and can often be seen lying down close to where Vasili is working.....just watching and monitoring the surrounds! Cane Corso dogs physically grow quite quickly and young "puppy' animals can easily be interpreted as "adult" dogs!😊
I live near a traditionally market garden area...but it's now being sold for property development. I also back onto a main road which means the air is constantly moving and throwing whatever pollutants over us. This makes sense...but of course I can't change my location. This makes so much sense as I have had curls in the last few weeks as the seasons are changing...which means weeds are emerging. Growers will be applying herbicides. Literally feeling exposed! 😮
I run four large HEPA air purifiers permanently in my home. We have no idea what toxins are in the air now (including viruses), it’s not like the fresh country air I grew up with.
I have this happen every year for a few years now. This year I didn’t have this issue. The difference was that previously I had bought the seedlings and this year they were all straight volunteers. Odd
I’m in Bendigo. My seed was saved from a local organic farm. Eleven different heirloom varieties all grew in that leaf curling way this season with hardly any fruits and stunted hard fruits at that. I tried everything before pulled them out… I think your airborne hypothesis could be it…
I believe what you are talking about and I am going to follow your way of doing things as much as I can in my little garden when I say little I mean little thank you
Sources of your straw might be sprayed with "Graze-on" which remains on the stray and hay. But also, yes.....Glyphosate evaporating into the atmosphere. Farmers need to rejuvenate their soils and do diverse cropping for sure. Your bare soil bed reminds us to throw in some type of green mulch cover crop.
I’ve had a skanky leaf on my capsicum. I make my own compost. So I’m planting two beans 50/50 with seed raising mix and if they grown true then I use the compost. If not, I throw it out. I test each home made batch. My culprit could have been bagged manure that I bought from various farmers from the side of the road. Also is your cane mulch certified organic? Read Robbie and Gary on you tube re compost in situ. It’s changed my thinking to scavenge green stuff, unsprayed, from everywhere. Also my passionfruits were skanky this year, for the first time, yet my neighbours which were 200m away were perfect. I’m perplexed but I try now to compost with seaweed and unsprayed leaves and grasses. My chickens’ feed is not organic, so I wonder if their chook shed droppings may have a herbicide in it. Ahhhh! I’m in remission from leukaemia so am quite paranoid about it. Do you know which, if any, bags of compost are tested by the manufacturer for herbicide contamination?
Here in Texas, at night sometimes you can go out in the DARK and shine a flashlight in the air and see small particles reflecting in the light. Some people say Geo-engineering and they are using aluminum and other things. You ain't crazy, it is happening.
I have a veg garden in St Albans & another in Boronia, couldn’t believe the leaf curl in both gardens, 100% organic, I thought maybe the influx of cabbage butterflies caused the curl in the tomatoes, also grew tomatillos and I don’t think they did as well as they should have (1st time growing them),then things died earlier than usual. Cucurbits were rubbish too. I thought I was going nuts, clearly if you’re having the same issue 100ks away something bigger is going on.
Wow you got everyone talking and for the good 👍 my Malakas are now putting on a display and I’m seeing flowers. We live under a direct flight path. Exposed fruit not doing so well. Fruit and vegetables covered by trees doing great! Let’s all do the maths. We’re gardeners for over 20 years. We also work with NDIS and don’t use glyphosates as most participants are sensitive so hand weed. As above post almost everything is now contaminated unfortunately. Unless you are at the process from the beginning ie: hay, straw, soil it’s grown in, is it truly organic? Thank you for educating us further Vasili. We never stop learning.
Hey, funny I’ve stumbled upon this video and your saying about chemicals in the air, few years back here in Sydney a company I think were called DuPont had crap floating all round and killed a lot and I mean a lot of well established trees in the area ,these trees were over 20 meters tall and whatever it was killed a lot of backyard veggies I know this cause a friend of mine copped it and quite a few people even lost their plants , don’t know whatever happened to the company but I’m sure they denied it.i can only imagine what it did to their health as well.
I agree. Just a thought, is it possible that as soon an the beans/peas are picked that they spray it before they cut and bail it as mulch? I am thinking that is what it might be. My Heritage Roma tomatoes have done the same thing. I am in Queensland therefore I use lucerne hay mulch. I have tried everything else, now it is just wait and see. As long as it is not virus I can afford to wait and see in my small garden.
I would love to see the garden beds you make dug into the ground and recessed at least 300mm. I have a feeling your soil below is drying out from extreme winds. The timber sleepers are very porous, added to that, your garden beds are disconnected from any mycelial networks underground. Planting some non fruiting trees around your garden to protect it from the elements would be amazing to protect that space
The leaf issues remind me of Grazon Herbicide poisoning. It can occur from tainted manure or straw from animals or fields that were pastured on paddocks treated with Grazon Extra for byoadleaf conttol....not Rojndup triclopyr; picloram, aminopyralid
What i would personally do with that garden bed would be loosen the whole thing first with your drill powered auger , rehydrate a block of coco coir put it all on and mix it in then put all your planting mixes on top , theres no worms no loosening the base first and mixing coco coir in is not going to harm anything.
I have the same problem. I bought some tomatoe seedlings from a Garden Festival and they have done the same thing. And they won"t grow as well. They are stunted. I even used Booch on them. I thought it was something I had done. I have not used Weed killer.
This is what I suspected is happening to my grape vines as well. Started off fine then as the leaves matured they started curling. Tried watering more/less and different feeding options no change. The only thing left on my list was these pesticides and you seem to be confirming this for me. I'm in metro Melbourne.
Vasili, have soil ever been attacked by Curly Grubs????????? I bought Premium Potting Mix for my raised Garden Bed from Bunnings, and since then Curly Grubs galore. Never had them before. I presume their potting mix is already contaminated with Larvae. I came to the stage that I am going to give up, because it is costing me a great deal of money. Your response is greatly appreciated.
Same thing happened to our tomato's, we thought it was the hot humid weather but did suspect it to be drift from roundup :( Thanks for your information.
It’s not only the farms. Moonee Valley Council spray it EVERYWHERE! They say they only use it in small areas but that’s a lie. I see them spraying next to schools, directly next to my house, in playgrounds. The gardeners I have questioned confirm it (while smirking I might add) when I ask them.
You need to add a wetting agent, or some agar agar, then water, then wait an hour or two for the soil to absorb the water, checking straight away will almost always show dry patches...
Im going to prepare my garden beds for next summer. Im a beginner gardener. Grass clippings, then cutting tomatoesl stem and dropping them on top of grass clippings, then urine on top, then food scraps, then grass clippings. Will this lead to good compost by summer?
I`ve been growing food since the early 1970s. Something has changed and I`m having serious problems will all my vegetables...even in pots. And it`s beyond frustrating and puzzling.
Soil seems to regenerate in drier areas than where you are without adding water, if just left untouched and nature is allowed to do its job. Drying out is part of that natural process.
I'm guilty of ignoring beds because i didn't want to waste the water. It's going to be a big switch for me but I will start gently watering empty beds and see what happens.
I've heard that using hay as a mulch or cover over the soil while growing veggies is risky due to the chemicals, probably glyphosate or who knows what, sprayed on the hay while it's growing. Also, I started buying chicken manure because of the chemicals sprayed on the cattle's food instead of cow manure fertilizer. I am in the US.
I live in Werribee and this year I have had the worst crop of tomatoes . The first crop of tomatoes developed well but after that the plants stopped growing. I found to the tips drooped and then the leaves just dried a slow death. This occurred to all my tomato plants it has baffled me.
Maybe too much straw in the mix. A lot of the nitrogen is going into breaking down the straw. I take it the healthier tomatoes don't have as much straw in the soil. I think not enough nitrogen can effect mineral absorption too. I assume any black nightshade that came up at the same time you put these tomatoes in and just growing in dirt aren't having the same issue. If glyphosate is the problem, there are other plants that have a lower tolerance level than tomato. If they are thriving, don't think it would be this.
@samiamnot8906 the first problem is that after you use it, is that the shit you don't want growing comes back the fastest. As the soil gets exposed, I guess it's good thing these weeds come back to do a job of covering the soil. The organisms in the soil take some time to degrade it, depending on how much life is in the soil. The organisms will take time to recover back to where they once were. Eventually everything will recover, I guess. It seems to be a last resort thing and not something to be used liberally. Some weeds can be problematic and I guess it is easier to kill them with poison, then plant something to outcompete that weed. Even digging up a weed then planting can have negative connotations on soil health. But I guess it is better than using poison
Just a question... I've bought quite a bit of your soil, compost and coco, the plants growing in it seem ok provided I mix it with potting mix else it gets too dense. But seeds.... I've tried just the compost, just the planting mix, a mix of the compost and planting soil, and compost/soil/coco and soil/coco, and so far I've had about a 2% success rate with germination. Why? If I use seedling mix I get about 95%. Why won't they germinate in your stuff?
you need to test everything for glyphosate , could very well be in the air but could also arrive to your garden via these areas , MULCH , the bean straw you use , who ( which farm ) does that come from ? , is it produced organically ? , does the producer use glyphosate on any cash crop or weed & would he tell the truth about that usage if you asked this question ? / COMPOST , does the producer batch test for glyphosate , does he test at all , do they use kerbside green waste collection material from homes as a main ingredient in there compost making ? if they do use it , they should definitely be testing for glyphosate & other stuffs very regularly , semi-rant , our use or over use of chemicals as a society in our own homes & communities is out of control , if it's sold in a jar , bottle , packet , box or squirt bottle & it's on the shelf at Bunings or Coles & Woolies it's good to use round my family right ! ! ! , sadly many would say yes it is 😥
Could this be the case with tomatoes in pots as well? Have just moved to a new area in Melbourne and brought my potted tomatoes with me. It is withering away and turning brown
Looks like persistant Herbicide like Grazon. What are your inputs and sources for compost ? Also herbicides like Grazon cannot be tested for at levels that hurt nightshades. I would seriously look at your Inputs.
Γεια σου, Βασίλη, πιθανά να μεταφέρεις τη γλιφοσάτη στον κήπο σου από τα άχυρα που βάζεις στο κομπόστ σου ή την κοπριά. Η αγελάδα όταν τρώει σε ψεκασμένο χωράφι βγάζει την "αθάνατη¨ γλιφοσάτη στην κοπριά της
But could your straw also have been grown with Grazon? I think they intentionally put stuff in the air frankly. They don't want us to have Gardens you know
I disagree with the glyphosate theory, if this was the case we would see the same affects on plants (or tomatoes in this case) year after year. Glyphosate has been used for 40 years in Australia. I would put it down to climate, we saw unusually high rainfalls and high humidity end of 2023 going into 2024. It's the common factor in this widespread problem with tomatoes in Victoria. Too much moisture at once followed by extreme dry periods will result in the plant being stressed and unable to evolve or adapt to the conditions in a short period of time. Lets just hope we get the goldilocks weather for the next season.
Err was this a "Glyphosate is in the air" or Rebuilding Dead Soil video? I'd suspect there are airborne chemicals around just the same way microplastics are. But Glyphosate is broken down by the soil microbes so I'm not convinced on that killing soil for sure. Poor watering on the other hand can destroy soil life quite quickly. Help me fix the dead soil in my new garden. Otherwise, it'll be compost compost compost.
I knew before you said it. Glyphosate. Farmer here. I’ve seen it so many times. I don’t like sprays and I actually let the weeds grow around my vegetables as I think they protect them from the hot sun and keep the soil cool. I be had great success with my 1 zucchini plant, my 1 Burnley Surecrop and self sown Tommy Toes. Nothing has been staked. The Tommies have a trellis. I have a lot of flowers to attract bees and birds.
Industrial agriculture has been a great boon to food production. But I doubt that there's been much research into the negative effects of industrial levels of the use of herbicides and pesticides. WHY? Vested interests and the money trail... BTW, the Local Council where I live uses POISON to trim the edges. Utter madness! 🤪🤪 M 🦘🏏😎
I had a gripe about that too! How lazy can they be? Running the whipper snipper along the edge or spraying takes the same amount of time. But one method causes cancer, while the other doesn't. So many pets walk along these paths. I dread to think how much toxins they are absorbing through their paw pads.
Love that u called BS str8 up. My green thumb mumma cant get plants to grow well and the soil dries out really fast - gr8 for the washing line, not for the garden. Being she is surrounded by farm land sounds like what your talking about - Maresi
I'm in Pascoe Vale and grew about 30 tomato plants from seed (4 varieties). No problems whatsoever.
That glyphosate has a lot to answer for. Some suspect it maybe the cause of Coeliac disease, which I have. Farmers spray wheat so they can harvest early and get a second crop in for the season.
Yes they've definitely been chemtrailing as others have suggested.
the ambient e-m-f has been increase also
I'm in pascoe vale south. My tomatoes planted mid September all failed exactly same problem with curl. All I have in my garden is vasilis plant mix and I use eco booch and liquid gold. Something definitely affected mine
My tomatoes were crap this year and I live in a great climate,
Never seen it before but I know there’s chemicals in the air we didn’t have before , my next step is plastic houses where I can control what goes in them
You are on the right track 👏👏
@HardCandy-fd4vzI live in NSW , best climate in the country, best soil and manure one day thriving next day dead , very strange . Thanks for your reply
I live in Kansas USA, and I grew somefrom seed they curled. Got some from neighbor about 1/2 mile away they curled, bought some from store they curled. Tomatoes
Yes Vasili, I've been gardening for over thirty years, you have also noticed things that something's going on. I'm not sure about glyphosate, but definitely without any dought in my mind something is coming out of the sky in the rain. I too have been having trouble in the last few years with bad germination rates on lot's of many things as well as the soil hydrophobic problem. I also must have a tin foil baseball cap on, buti feel much better now knowing that someone like yourself jas been having similar garden problems, after many years of gardening behind us. Weird or what. ? You asked so this is my answer. I hope it helps everyone.
I'm in Niddrie, I had the same issue with my tomatoes this year. I was suspicious that one of my neighbours had sprayed during a windy day, and it drifted into my backyard. Your theory makes more sense since the problem is more widespread.
Could it be the manure mixed in the soil. Herbicide can be sprayed on the hay fields, the animals eat it and it passes through their gut and comes out in their manure.
I am in in Mill Park and 90% of my tomatoes were affected this year. They were planted late November, early December and I concluded it was Glyphosate sprayed by a neighbor or council. My tomatoes planted later were not affected. You are on the money.
Biofuel has glyphosate and is exhausted from transport trucks that use biofuel so it’s around freeways and heavy traffic areas. As per Stephanie Seneff MIT.
Do you have planes going overhead leaving suspicious trails?
I am located on the NSW South Coast and all of my tomato plants did this this year. Ive never seen it before. The local garden centre yesterday was telling me that it has been across the board this year, all customers coming back blaming the plants that they have purchased. I advised this lady at the growing centre that the only tomato that hasn’t done this to me this year is a tomato seed that germinated in my chook yard, but I have got these tiny little tomatoes that are even smaller than Tom Thumb tomatoes. We have had a black hard shelled tiny beetle this year that has a shell that strong we can only bust it between your finger nails, even pounding it into the ground under your feet hasn’t been enough to kill them, these rotten things are about the size of a pin head and yet again a beetle we have never seen here before. I have gotten that cranky about what’s happening to my vegetables this past year that I have made the decision to encase every bed with netting to stop any of the butterflies getting in which will work for my brassicas but anything that needs pollination will go into the open beds. I hope my winter crops do a lot better than my dismal summer crops have.
No you’re right , I am in Hallam and it happens to me this year the same lot of seedlings planted in different spots in the garden ,the one in open garden bed are dead and the one sheltered are growing.
Hi mate I'm sure your going to get some comments on the leaf curl.YES 100%in the air.s Suggestion, gloves on & take samples of curly tips,place in zip lock bag,place in shaded spot,room temperature.allow sample to naturally sweat out ,then do a toxicity test on the sweat. Aerate soils.
You are definitely on the money . Thank you for exposing just one component of how tocic our air has become with chemicals. We get acid rain and if it is strong enough to permanently leave marks on our car windows imagine what it does to all vegetation and our natural environment.
If you sleep in a soiled bed its the end of living and the beginning of survival!
Your right Vasali.I bought a load of organic planting compost from a local cockie made from far manures . Same thing happened and I to did some research and found that the problem was chemical residue from animal chemicals and glyphosate in his "oganic" compost.
I look forward to the results. I certainly have the same issue even with my small raised beds of drying out. I have been digging out about 50 -60 cm of the soil and laying carboard down to help retain the moisture. At least I get a nice crop for that season.
I think you are right too Vasili, I live in an area where cotton and wheat are grown within 100km from me..... a friend of mine lives about 30km from me and was complaining about her tomatoes leaves curling up as mine were too.... and guess what? My Big Malaka tomatoes never did well because of it... also the Russian Black and Yellow Ox heart, none of them grew well even though I gave them all your good stuff..... the only difference is the farmers spraying..... how on earth do we fix this... I will be putting a cream coloured shade cloth over everything this coming winter..... I really hope that this will help, it will help with frost and should help with stuff falling from the sky too!
I've seen a similar situation years ago on a friends property but with grape vines, the day after the Council had been around spraying the weeds on the roadside and around the power lines the grapes curled and started dying. The whole plant was dead after a week. I think a few other plant varieties were affected but the climbing grapes over an arch was the most obvious as it was a focal point and high up.
This is what I suspect happened to my mature Magnolia tree in my front yard. A few years back the council started spraying the park across the road for weeds. Prior to this the park was used by a pony club (for decades) and they used trimmers. As soon as the pony club vacated, out came the poison.
How sad.
ALL of my tomatoes did this. I planted a lot, all in different beds. Not only tomato plants, flowers did this as well. In particular I didn’t get any flowering from dahlias, their buds were warped Little Rock’s.
You are on the money it's whats in the air I believe it's from the lines and stripes we see if you look up in the sky thats my belief
I’ve had the same Curley leaves on tomatoes a few years ago in Drouin. I threw them out because I thought it was a disease. The one next to it will wasn’t damaged. We don’t use glyphosate ever. So airborne sounds believable.
What about the straw? I worry about that too
Hi mate i live in montrose at the foot of mt Dandenong and we have had the same thing happen to all our tomatoes
I had aminopyralid posioning also as a brand new garderner.Check you straw and any outside compost/manure sources. It only effected the one raised bed that had a local gardening company compost. I planted different soil in a tower and those did amazing! After research, it destroys tomatos, bean, and other broadleaf plants. My tomatoes looked exactly like the damage pictures on the Google- rapid stem growth, curled leaves, and starting to have mutated stem growth. The catepillars wouldn't touch them at all. They were quality plants that were growing amazing from rabbit fertilizer and growing great until I planted them in that raised bed.
Hello Vasili,
I had 2 tomato plants affected in Geelong. But I am impressed by all the lady beetles that's been awesome!
i built a polytunnel for my summer planting, with 2'' polypipe, star pickets, ceiling battens for bracing and timber door stop trim to screw the plastic into the ceiling battens- sandwiched between. I did it because of the large amount of 'stuff' left behind the inordinate amount of flight paths overhead- 😉 i live in a geographically isolated area far from high traffic aviation. i built an umbrella, quite literally.
all tomatoes outside the 'umbrella' suffered with leaf curl... same soils, same ferts, etc, only differences between the two was one was handwatered at soil level, the other got rained on... open ends on the polytunnel and 900mm open sides also... i threw a shade cloth over it for Jan/Feb as i'm subtropical Qld.
A very interesting video, thank you. I noticed your two adult dogs are there playing but where is your puppy, haven't seen her for a while?
LOL! The dogs interacting are father and daughter. If you look closely, you will see a definite height difference between them. Kara the oldest of the pack does not play "run around games'" any more! She now is more into guardian, protective mode and can often be seen lying down close to where Vasili is working.....just watching and monitoring the surrounds! Cane Corso dogs physically grow quite quickly and young "puppy' animals can easily be interpreted as "adult" dogs!😊
I live near a traditionally market garden area...but it's now being sold for property development. I also back onto a main road which means the air is constantly moving and throwing whatever pollutants over us. This makes sense...but of course I can't change my location. This makes so much sense as I have had curls in the last few weeks as the seasons are changing...which means weeds are emerging. Growers will be applying herbicides. Literally feeling exposed! 😮
It's on my capos and toms. Definitely makes me not feel like I'm going crazy because nothing different was done with my previous planting
I run four large HEPA air purifiers permanently in my home. We have no idea what toxins are in the air now (including viruses), it’s not like the fresh country air I grew up with.
G'day from Qld.
Same issues here. I'm an organic grower, no chems.
But the sky has white lines very often
I have this happen every year for a few years now. This year I didn’t have this issue. The difference was that previously I had bought the seedlings and this year they were all straight volunteers. Odd
You're not nuts. We can all see what's going on! Poisoning our food, water and air. Thank you for raising this.
All my outdoor tomatoes have died this year worst season ever. Greenhouse tomatoes were fine,
I’m in Bendigo. My seed was saved from a local organic farm. Eleven different heirloom varieties all grew in that leaf curling way this season with hardly any fruits and stunted hard fruits at that. I tried everything before pulled them out… I think your airborne hypothesis could be it…
Love your dogs! Great info!
Have you considered that grazon herbicide was used on the straw?
I believe what you are talking about and I am going to follow your way of doing things as much as I can in my little garden when I say little I mean little thank you
hahaa, I helped build that particular box! Great day! Hope there's more of these days.
How do you stop the water running out of the gaps.
Sources of your straw might be sprayed with "Graze-on" which remains on the stray and hay. But also, yes.....Glyphosate evaporating into the atmosphere. Farmers need to rejuvenate their soils and do diverse cropping for sure.
Your bare soil bed reminds us to throw in some type of green mulch cover crop.
My tomatoes succumbed to aminopyralid poisoning brought in with garden centre compost! The leaves looked the same as yours.
I’ve had a skanky leaf on my capsicum. I make my own compost. So I’m planting two beans 50/50 with seed raising mix and if they grown true then I use the compost. If not, I throw it out. I test each home made batch. My culprit could have been bagged manure that I bought from various farmers from the side of the road. Also is your cane mulch certified organic?
Read Robbie and Gary on you tube re compost in situ. It’s changed my thinking to scavenge green stuff, unsprayed, from everywhere. Also my passionfruits were skanky this year, for the first time, yet my neighbours which were 200m away were perfect. I’m perplexed but I try now to compost with seaweed and unsprayed leaves and grasses. My chickens’ feed is not organic, so I wonder if their chook shed droppings may have a herbicide in it. Ahhhh! I’m in remission from leukaemia so am quite paranoid about it.
Do you know which, if any, bags of compost are tested by the manufacturer for herbicide contamination?
Here in Texas, at night sometimes you can go out in the DARK and shine a flashlight in the air and see small particles reflecting in the light. Some people say Geo-engineering and they are using aluminum and other things. You ain't crazy, it is happening.
I have a veg garden in St Albans & another in Boronia, couldn’t believe the leaf curl in both gardens, 100% organic, I thought maybe the influx of cabbage butterflies caused the curl in the tomatoes, also grew tomatillos and I don’t think they did as well as they should have (1st time growing them),then things died earlier than usual. Cucurbits were rubbish too. I thought I was going nuts, clearly if you’re having the same issue 100ks away something bigger is going on.
Wow you got everyone talking and for the good 👍 my Malakas are now putting on a display and I’m seeing flowers. We live under a direct flight path. Exposed fruit not doing so well. Fruit and vegetables covered by trees doing great! Let’s all do the maths. We’re gardeners for over 20 years. We also work with NDIS and don’t use glyphosates as most participants are sensitive so hand weed. As above post almost everything is now contaminated unfortunately. Unless you are at the process from the beginning ie: hay, straw, soil it’s grown in, is it truly organic? Thank you for educating us further Vasili. We never stop learning.
You could trial using the Shou sugi ban method of burning your timber boxes to help with soil retention.
Test your soil for Aluminum, alot of soils are incredibly acidic now.
And your right, it's coming from above, in the air and rain.
Hey, funny I’ve stumbled upon this video and your saying about chemicals in the air, few years back here in Sydney a company I think were called DuPont had crap floating all round and killed a lot and I mean a lot of well established trees in the area ,these trees were over 20 meters tall and whatever it was killed a lot of backyard veggies I know this cause a friend of mine copped it and quite a few people even lost their plants , don’t know whatever happened to the company but I’m sure they denied it.i can only imagine what it did to their health as well.
I agree. Just a thought, is it possible that as soon an the beans/peas are picked that they spray it before they cut and bail it as mulch? I am thinking that is what it might be. My Heritage Roma tomatoes have done the same thing. I am in Queensland therefore I use lucerne hay mulch. I have tried everything else, now it is just wait and see. As long as it is not virus I can afford to wait and see in my small garden.
I would love to see the garden beds you make dug into the ground and recessed at least 300mm. I have a feeling your soil below is drying out from extreme winds. The timber sleepers are very porous, added to that, your garden beds are disconnected from any mycelial networks underground. Planting some non fruiting trees around your garden to protect it from the elements would be amazing to protect that space
The leaf issues remind me of Grazon Herbicide poisoning. It can occur from tainted manure or straw from animals or fields that were pastured on paddocks treated with Grazon Extra for byoadleaf conttol....not Rojndup
triclopyr; picloram, aminopyralid
What i would personally do with that garden bed would be loosen the whole thing first with your drill powered auger , rehydrate a block of coco coir put it all on and mix it in then put all your planting mixes on top , theres no worms no loosening the base first and mixing coco coir in is not going to harm anything.
I have the same problem. I bought some tomatoe seedlings from a Garden Festival and they have done the same thing. And they won"t grow as well. They are stunted. I even used Booch on them. I thought it was something I had done. I have not used Weed killer.
Great story and i am think that your right
Ela re its Chemtrails
Yep, exacly look up and see the chemtrails vasili before blaming the farmers
Yep, definitely on the money
This is what I suspected is happening to my grape vines as well. Started off fine then as the leaves matured they started curling. Tried watering more/less and different feeding options no change. The only thing left on my list was these pesticides and you seem to be confirming this for me. I'm in metro Melbourne.
Vasili, have soil ever been attacked by Curly Grubs????????? I bought Premium Potting Mix for my raised Garden Bed from Bunnings, and since then Curly Grubs galore. Never had them before. I presume their potting mix is already contaminated with Larvae. I came to the stage that I am going to give up, because it is costing me a great deal of money. Your response is greatly appreciated.
Make a good sip bed out of your raised bed. Solve the water problem for a while keeping the microbes happy
i tink that camtrails have somting to do about it it been alot last few years
Same thing happened to our tomato's, we thought it was the hot humid weather but did suspect it to be drift from roundup :( Thanks for your information.
Chemtrails I believe are much in issue as well. Test for the heavy metals they are spraying everything with.
Very good idea💯👍
Agree 100% mate 👍
It’s not only the farms. Moonee Valley Council spray it EVERYWHERE! They say they only use it in small areas but that’s a lie. I see them spraying next to schools, directly next to my house, in playgrounds. The gardeners I have questioned confirm it (while smirking I might add) when I ask them.
Its all true, they are spraying and trying to kill our food supply
You need to add a wetting agent, or some agar agar, then water, then wait an hour or two for the soil to absorb the water, checking straight away will almost always show dry patches...
💯 % on the money!! When you know you know… 🙏
Its over spray from someone around you, i have had it happen. Electric cooperate grrr.
Im going to prepare my garden beds for next summer. Im a beginner gardener. Grass clippings, then cutting tomatoesl stem and dropping them on top of grass clippings, then urine on top, then food scraps, then grass clippings. Will this lead to good compost by summer?
I`ve been growing food since the early 1970s. Something has changed and I`m having serious problems will all my vegetables...even in pots. And it`s beyond frustrating and puzzling.
Soil seems to regenerate in drier areas than where you are without adding water, if just left untouched and nature is allowed to do its job. Drying out is part of that natural process.
I'm guilty of ignoring beds because i didn't want to waste the water. It's going to be a big switch for me but I will start gently watering empty beds and see what happens.
Was the hay contaminated?
My thoughts exactl
grazon is wicked stuff@@mudmaker2133
I've heard that using hay as a mulch or cover over the soil while growing veggies is risky due to the chemicals, probably glyphosate or who knows what, sprayed on the hay while it's growing. Also, I started buying chicken manure because of the chemicals sprayed on the cattle's food instead of cow manure fertilizer. I am in the US.
Curious, would it be better to send off some of the roots for testing for roundup. I thought that was where the poisons concentrate
I live in Werribee and this year I have had the worst crop of tomatoes . The first crop of tomatoes developed well but after that the plants stopped growing. I found to the tips drooped and then the leaves just dried a slow death. This occurred to all my tomato plants it has baffled me.
Maybe too much straw in the mix. A lot of the nitrogen is going into breaking down the straw. I take it the healthier tomatoes don't have as much straw in the soil. I think not enough nitrogen can effect mineral absorption too. I assume any black nightshade that came up at the same time you put these tomatoes in and just growing in dirt aren't having the same issue. If glyphosate is the problem, there are other plants that have a lower tolerance level than tomato. If they are thriving, don't think it would be this.
@samiamnot8906 the first problem is that after you use it, is that the shit you don't want growing comes back the fastest. As the soil gets exposed, I guess it's good thing these weeds come back to do a job of covering the soil. The organisms in the soil take some time to degrade it, depending on how much life is in the soil. The organisms will take time to recover back to where they once were. Eventually everything will recover, I guess. It seems to be a last resort thing and not something to be used liberally. Some weeds can be problematic and I guess it is easier to kill them with poison, then plant something to outcompete that weed. Even digging up a weed then planting can have negative connotations on soil health. But I guess it is better than using poison
Just a question... I've bought quite a bit of your soil, compost and coco, the plants growing in it seem ok provided I mix it with potting mix else it gets too dense. But seeds.... I've tried just the compost, just the planting mix, a mix of the compost and planting soil, and compost/soil/coco and soil/coco, and so far I've had about a 2% success rate with germination. Why? If I use seedling mix I get about 95%. Why won't they germinate in your stuff?
you need to test everything for glyphosate , could very well be in the air but could also arrive to your garden via these areas , MULCH , the bean straw you use , who ( which farm ) does that come from ? , is it produced organically ? , does the producer use glyphosate on any cash crop or weed & would he tell the truth about that usage if you asked this question ? / COMPOST , does the producer batch test for glyphosate , does he test at all , do they use kerbside green waste collection material from homes as a main ingredient in there compost making ? if they do use it , they should definitely be testing for glyphosate & other stuffs very regularly , semi-rant , our use or over use of chemicals as a society in our own homes & communities is out of control , if it's sold in a jar , bottle , packet , box or squirt bottle & it's on the shelf at Bunings or Coles & Woolies it's good to use round my family right ! ! ! , sadly many would say yes it is 😥
Could this be the case with tomatoes in pots as well? Have just moved to a new area in Melbourne and brought my potted tomatoes with me. It is withering away and turning brown
Looks like persistant Herbicide like Grazon. What are your inputs and sources for compost ? Also herbicides like Grazon cannot be tested for at levels that hurt nightshades. I would seriously look at your Inputs.
I came here to say exactly this but realised I need to stop trying to get people to listen to me on this topic/issue. 😢
Well, with all the chem trails they have sprayed us with I believe the gardens are suffering from that as well😢😢
Great ideas and information ~ ❤ 🍅 🌹 🥬 🌿 🍆
They are called Tin Foil Hat wearers...the metal actually deflects emf radiation.!
Γεια σου, Βασίλη, πιθανά να μεταφέρεις τη γλιφοσάτη στον κήπο σου από τα άχυρα που βάζεις στο κομπόστ σου ή την κοπριά. Η αγελάδα όταν τρώει σε ψεκασμένο χωράφι βγάζει την "αθάνατη¨ γλιφοσάτη στην κοπριά της
I'm in West Heidelberg had no problems and I will say it again - we have the biggest pomerllio tree in Melbourne 20bucks if I'm rong
But could your straw also have been grown with Grazon? I think they intentionally put stuff in the air frankly. They don't want us to have Gardens you know
Look up 🧐
Blame the governments for interfering with the world’s weather 11:23 🤬
Glyphosate should be outlawed
Not be allowed
I disagree with the glyphosate theory, if this was the case we would see the same affects on plants (or tomatoes in this case) year after year. Glyphosate has been used for 40 years in Australia. I would put it down to climate, we saw unusually high rainfalls and high humidity end of 2023 going into 2024. It's the common factor in this widespread problem with tomatoes in Victoria. Too much moisture at once followed by extreme dry periods will result in the plant being stressed and unable to evolve or adapt to the conditions in a short period of time. Lets just hope we get the goldilocks weather for the next season.
Err was this a "Glyphosate is in the air" or Rebuilding Dead Soil video? I'd suspect there are airborne chemicals around just the same way microplastics are.
But Glyphosate is broken down by the soil microbes so I'm not convinced on that killing soil for sure.
Poor watering on the other hand can destroy soil life quite quickly. Help me fix the dead soil in my new garden. Otherwise, it'll be compost compost compost.
Yep this is the worst year for tomatoes but all the stuff they spray in the air
I think you’re beds are too high
Could it be chemtrails? It's so hard to keep your garden away from poisons.
Humidity
what a load of rubbish lad.
we had that rust in our tomato crops in the early 1960s.
15 years before round-up was invented.
Have another try/re-think
Chemtrails 100%
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Gawd damn, get to the point already!
I knew before you said it. Glyphosate. Farmer here. I’ve seen it so many times. I don’t like sprays and I actually let the weeds grow around my vegetables as I think they protect them from the hot sun and keep the soil cool. I be had great success with my 1 zucchini plant, my 1 Burnley Surecrop and self sown Tommy Toes. Nothing has been staked. The Tommies have a trellis. I have a lot of flowers to attract bees and birds.
Industrial agriculture has been a great boon to food production. But I doubt that there's been much research into the negative effects of industrial levels of the use of herbicides and pesticides. WHY?
Vested interests and the money trail... BTW, the Local Council where I live uses POISON to trim the edges. Utter madness! 🤪🤪
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Chemical council
I had a gripe about that too! How lazy can they be? Running the whipper snipper along the edge or spraying takes the same amount of time. But one method causes cancer, while the other doesn't. So many pets walk along these paths. I dread to think how much toxins they are absorbing through their paw pads.
@@lisathiedeman4487 And if not dogs, the soil.