Look at my tomato plant it’s blooming, I can almost taste the vine ripened tomatoes. Unfortunately I had noticed earlier in the week that something was eating around the stem. Yesterday I noticed that the plant was hanging a little limp. Guess I won’t be tasting tomatoes from those blooms. Just when I think I have found a place in my yard where the sun doesn’t cook the plants I get bugs!
It’s hard to see in a photograph but the stem below the line of soil is brown and half the size of the stem above ground. The stem looks like it’s been chewed as far down as I have dug.