Hi folks,

I've been growing San Marzanos for several years. They're planted in the garden with a 4'X4' spacing and staked. I rotate them from the top of the garden to the middle to the bottom on successive years. garden is 70' wide and I usually plant two rows.

The leaves are starting to curl, but not the "usual" curling upwards, but curling downwards along the length of the leaf. Imagine a tomato leaf on a flat surface, the curling goes along both sides the length of the leaf and is downwards. If allowed to continue, the center rib would be elevated by the two curls.

I use a post hole digger to plant them,dig a hole about 14" deep, toss in some topsoil, strip off any bottom leaves and plant. As the tomato grows, more dirt is pulled in, allowing roots to develop along the stem and eventually the hole is filled. Oh, I toss a little 5-10-5 in the bottom of the hole and side dress with that a couple times a season.

Watering is with a soaker hose, once a week if needed. Assuming this is some form of water issue, I mulched them with straw yesterday.

Think that's all the pertinent info.

Another thing I noticed, the plants are blooming and setting fruit, which is about a month early in my experience, anyone else noticed this? However we didn't have any winter, so "everything" is about a month early around here.

Thanks for your time,

Ev