Well Today; things seem to be perking up; both plants have lost quite a few of their leaves the Caerulea has lost quite a bit of its leaves; all the ones that were damaged and had turned color fell off today; and some of the Buds as well. The Alato seems to be doing better than the Caerulea; the leaves aren't as droopy today; it has lost some leaves but not as many as the Caerulea; Both seem to be perking up now. I am sure it also had to do with the fact that I had to change the soil which in turn I lost some of the far extended Roots; but if I had left the soil in I think I would have lost the plant for good; so I had to take the chance and change it. Now that both have lost some foilage; the root system won't have to work as hard; and I am hoping it will come back better than ever. Funny thing; I put some of the same Fertilizer in my Lady Margaret and it is doing fine; when I saw the effect of the other two I took the top inches of soil out of the Lady and replaced it; but I never once saw any change in the Plant overall. It seems even though they are all from the Passionflower family; they all seem to need completely different things; From now on I am just going to give the Big pot with the 2 Different Passionflower plants the Premix Fertilizer; that seems the safest way to go.

I know 6 years later and I'm buzzing in. Well, this just happened to my tomatoes and I'm no gardening pro! But, I saw some tiny poop that had me wondering who it belonged too. I thought maybe my tomatoes were getting too much sun and thats why its was turning colors but I did some googling. I found out, I had a Catapillar living and eating my plant! I sat down and stared at my tomato plant wondering if I would find this mystery Catapillar and then all the sudden right in front of my face there he was, about the size of my finger, but blended in so perfectly to look like a leaf. I stared at my tomato plant wondering if I would find this mystery Catapillar and then all the sudden right in front of my face there he was about the size of my finger but blended in so perfectly to look like a leaf. After posting this discovery on fb. all my gardening pros warned me that he would kill my plant totally and move on to the others. As well as lay larve. Yuck! Well, upon looking at your photos I think I found his cousin hanging out in your photo!! The close up was the one in my garden. So you can see it better. It's a tomato horn... Yours may be in a different family. But it's a catipiller!

Not trying to disagree with hairmetal4ever, but my father-in-law has a Cercis 'Forest Pansy' that survived -20 with flying colors last winter with no snow cover at the end of February. We also had near record cold mid-November until early December. Have witnessed numerous redbuds (different cultivars, etc..) that all behave with no rhyme or reason as to winter survival. We stopped planting them regularly due to their inconsistency. Your particular redbud rootstock may not be hardy either. Best case scenario it will survive and you can have a neat, multi-stem redbud in the future!

The idea, which is debatable and probably exaggerated, is that you can make more potatoes grow vertically along the stem by covering up the stems as they grow. I don't think you should cover up good green growth like some people suggest. From your description your potatoes seem fine, you have not ruined your crop. You can add a couple more inches of soil to make sure the tubers are covered, and to help keep the soil from getting dried out in the heat.