I have not mulched yet, so I work the soil a little on top to help it dry and feed the plants a little. I use whatever fertilizer I have on hand. After the soil dries some I will mulch.

I don't think there is too much you can do except wait for the soil to dry out. If you can dig trenches to drain away excess water that will help. If you can work the soil on top like Larry described, that will help.

of the reasons they look so bad is that the waterlogged roots are so clogged with water that they cannot properly take up and distribute nutrients. There is no quick fix for that. If your soil is less than 100% saturated, you might be able to feed them with a water soluble fertilizer, but if your roots are too clogged with water, they won't be able to take it up and use it. I had pretty good luck with it in between the worst of the heavy rainfall in 2007 though.

My soil (finally!) has begun to dry out and most of the tomatoes (the ones in the raised beds) are starting to look a lot better, though they still don't have as much foliage as usual. We're harvesting tomatoes though, so I cannot complain, because even though the plants look crappy, they are producing.

The tomato plants I planted at grade level at the bottom of our sloping garden? They still look awful. I knew when I planted them there that they wouldn't be happy in this wet year, but I figured it would give them a chance to live...because the other option was just to throw them on the compost pile. If we get very much more rain, I'll probably yank out those plants at the lower end of the garden because they're just not going to do well if the rain persists, but I'll keep the ones in the raised beds because they are higher and somewhat drier.

The rain mostly has missed us the last two weeks (only about 2.25" in the last two weeks) and that gives me hope. The forecast for tonight through tomorrow doesn't look good, so all I can do is hope the rain misses us or that we get less than they say we will. They're saying 2-2.5" for us, which is about 2-2.5" too much. There's nothing we can do about that---we cannot stop the rain.

After I had planted all I had room or, and had given away most of the rest, I tossed the last 8 or 10 tomato plants on the compost pile. Most of them have rooted in there and are looking like they're going to live---they look better (though smaller) than the tomato plants in the garden, so maybe they are going to be my back up plan if the garden plants get too wet from the coming rainfall.

My best looking plants are the 12 that I planted in very large containers. They are much happier than the ones planted in the ground, and I wish I'd planted more in containers and fewer in the ground. My whole garden is pretty much drowning still, despite raised beds, and looks nowhere near as good as it does in an average year. Our soil has stayed perpetually wet since last September, so even if the raised beds themselves drain pretty well, the ground beneath them still is basically a river of moisture....if I dig down to plant, I hit water about 8" down. Standing water. In a strongly sloping garden. I often joke that a river runs underneath my garden, but this year, I think it really is happening.

Maybe we'll start to get a break from the rain as we move more into summer. If not, we can plant new, fresh plants from mid-June through mid-July for a fall harvest. That's always an option. Of course, the rain has to slow down, stop or something....or fall tomatoes won't do any better than spring tomatoes.

somehow, mine are doing fine, in my waterlogged back yard.

and the other one is blooming...the third plant isn't doing anything. Yup, I do have only 3 tomato plants.

Maybe try feeding them with a foliar spray using a liquid fertilizer? That may be the only way to feed them if they are water-logged.

Lee