That usually means that the rosettes are water starved due to dead roots or stems. Your plant needs to have the rosettes beheaded in order to correct abnormal growth from inadequate light. Leave less than two inches of stem, then let he cut ends dry in air for a few days, then plant in dry porous soil, at least 75% inorganic materials like perlite, pumice, gravel etc. Your current soil looks terrible, mostly peat which should be avoided. It will take a few weeks for the cuttings to grow roots. Do not water until you see signs of growth. Give lots of light, your plant is etiolated, growing abnormally, making ID difficult. It's probably an Echeveria or Graptoveria, or a hybrid. Brad

I've had the same problem this year with my basement. For weeks all I could think of was "A River Runs Through It" or "Waterworld". :-) Tomatoes hate being waterlogged. Moreso than most plants. You could always stick your finger (or a stick) in the ground it see if it's soggy down around the roots. Or, if you pull up one of the plants, check to see that the ground is not waterlogged around the roots. If it is, that is likely the problem. I doubt anything leached from the roof into the water and killed the plants. We are down to some of the most likely suspects: 1. Water - way too much or way too little. 2. Herbicides -- either sprayed nearby and drifted unto the plants, or in the manure (or soil, if brought in). However, I would expect to see deformed and stunted foliage prior to death. Looking at the dead leaves, it's hard to detect any distortion in the foliage. The wilting leaves don't look distorted. 3. Disease. There are several diseases that can cause wilting, but disease is not obvious from the photo. Afterthought: Since your sedum looks unhealthy also, did you use cow manure on that too? Many farms use pasture pesticides that pass right through grazers' digestive systems and into the manure unchanged. Then we take the manure, dress our gardens, and it causes our plants to die or at least struggle. When getting manure or soil or compost, it would probably be a good idea to ask which pesticides they are using in their pasture. Then use accordingly. Link to an article below - just in case it applies to your situation (which is hard to discern). Here is a link that might be useful: Herbicide Carryover

MaryLu, I completely agree with your feelings about switching to the pellet stove vs continuing to burn the parlor stove. Here's why: I have both a Harman pellet stove (Accentra) and a Vermont Castings (Defiant Encore) wood stove. They are the ONLY sources of heat in our 160 yo, minimally uninsulated, farmhouse in northern NY. First: the pellet stove is much less work to fire and run. And it requires only a fraction of the cleaning necessary to keep your exhaust stack/chimney safe. Also produces almost insignificant amount of ashes over a whole winter. We burn 4 1/2 tons of pellets per year, and would hardly fill two large sheet rock mud buckets with ashes for the entire burning season. My woodstove produces enough ashes over the winter to fill a garbage can! Second: Although I am a very experienced wood burner with more than three decades of burning under my belt I worry a whole lot less about the pellet burner than I do the woodstove. Both stoves are correctly, and very safely installed (my DH and I are both former Vol. firefighters, so we are fire safety nuts). And even with a highly attended-to woodstove I have a low level of anxiety about it all the time. I never fuss about the pellet burner, though. Third: Fueling the pellet burner is a snap compared to a woodstove. My DH has back problems so I haul all the fuel (wood and pellet) into the house (4-5 tons of pellets, and 4 to 5 full cords of wood, every year) so I am very familiar with the physical effort required and the pellet burner wins, easily. Four: Your Harman stove will burn all day, or all night, with no need to add more fuel. You could go away for a very long Thanksgiving day visit and come back and find it's still putting out the same heat as when you left. The woodstove will have burnt down and need to be refired. Now, the only downside to a pellet burner vs a woodstove is that the pellet burner requires constant electricity to run. Ours is hooked up to a heavy duty uninterruptible power source (like for a large computer) so it will continue to operate for a short time in a power outage. Some people have big battery packs for extended use. And because it uses electricity, unlike a woodstove which heats by radiating, the pellet burner is effectively a "forced air" system so you have the downside of a continuous (or intermittent, depends on how you control it) stream of hot air, and the noise (though low) of the circulation fan and feed auger. Compared to the nearly silent operation of a woodstove, I find the pellet burner mildly more obtrusive. There is also the a small amount of fugitive dust from the pellets which is blown around by the circulation. The other thing about a pellet stove is that it is very convenient for the early and late season burning period when you need just a small amount, or a few hours of heat. We have been firing the pellet burner intermittently for about three weeks, but not kindled the woodstove, yet. The pellet burner is quick to heat, and simpler for small fires just to take the chill off. And one other note: the pellet burner has a much lower surface temperature compared to a woodstove, so I find it particularly comforting when I am chilled as I can safely snuggle right up to it, putting my hands on the top surface, for instance. It's kind of a rapid re-warmer, at least for me. And finally, although many people here seem to like the looks of the old parlor stove (I do, too), I find them messier and more problematic to burn than modern woodstoves or pellet stoves. If you, like I, get a substantial portion of your heat from the stove, it needs to be less of a decorative object and more a functional one because you have to fire it so often, with all the attendant smoke and mess that the old stoves create. Fortunately the Harman stove is also a handsome, though less late 19th century, style than the parlor stove. I think you will be happy (ier?) with the pellet stove. We have had the Accentra for two winters (starting on our third) and are much impressed by Harman's quality and unique technology. Ours, BTW, is installed with direct (from the outside) feed for the combustion air path so we are not pulling our heated air out of the building. I vote for the pellet burner! HTH, Molly

I wouldn't like that either. Who knows what happened all those months ago. "Get over it" seems wrong to say. How about "Come to terms with it" or "Make the best of it" or "put it in perspective." It cannot be changed now, anyway. Maybe they can at least refund what you paid for the yearbook, as a gesture of regret for the mistake. If this is the worst thing that happened to your son's senior year, you are a lucky family. You have the nice pictures from the photographer, those are the ones you'll treasure for yourself, as a mother, more than the yearbook, anyway. I mean, those will be in the frame on the mantle or wherever every day for years. The yearbook picture will be looked a lot for now, but eventually almost never. We have so many pictures of our children/ourselves growing up, the value of the yearbook is the memories of people and times that it brings back later for the student. That won't change despite this error.