Some of my Rio Grande plants (A huge success last year) are very spindly. Four to five feet tall, but spindly. The ones I planted earlier are fine. It is the later planted ones that are so spindly. We have had a record rain fall. The soil has been saturated. I think some other plants show signs of phosphorus deficiency. The banana peppers have purple mottling on the fruits. The sweet potato leaves have purple. I've never seen that after any cold weather is over. Is the low oxygen, high water content limiting phosphorus uptake?

Are my tomatoes spindly from too much water? From inability to take up phosphorus like the sweet potatoes and peppers?

I'm thinking of trying to get some oxygen down to the roots by forking the soil near them. I'd try that with two or three plants. Otherwise, I'm inclined to just wait and see, let them grow out of it as the weather turns to a more normal rainfall (I hope).

What do you think?