Hi guys,
Novice-y gardener here. Moved to an apartment with a micro-balcony and decided to plant two tomato plants, a sungold and a bush variety, as well as an eggplant this year. The balcony gets good sun, and plenty of other flowers and herbs are doing fine. But not the tomatoes.
The tomato leaves have been turning yellow and drying out, starting at the bottom. The sungold is becoming especially bare since all the leaves are dying. The bush variety does not look as bad, but I did notice white fuzz on the base of the stem. Also, I moved all the plants over yesterday and there was white spider-webby stuff on the wood beneath them and it was very damp.
Please—I am most interested in answers that focus on how to possibly save my plants at this point, rather than answers like "you should've planted them in bigger containers or grow bags". I received plenty of those kind of answers on Reddit, and while they might be true, they do not help me today.
Here are some pictures.
The Sungolds and the white stuff underneath the planter:
The bush-variety tomato plant:
and my eggplant, which seems a little better off but still has yellowing leaves on the lower part.
