The dying breath of my plants.

     This year I decided to plant a garden, my first REAL garden. I've planted a tomato plant here and cucumber plant there the last few years but didn't do anything major. My little bundles of joy are 3 and 4 now so it was time I started to do things that I enjoy again. This year I put a raised bed in the corner of the fence, ugly spot and it got plenty of sun. 

     Inside that raised bed I planted 2 beefsteak tomato plants, 1 cherry, 6 green beans, 3 peppers (green, purple, and yellow) 6 okra (only 4 made it after my dog), 3 rows of carrots, 2 rows of leaf lettuce, and some yellow onions. I also tilled up a spot at the top of the hill and plants 2 zuccuhini, 2 yellow squash, 1 egg plant, 3 rows of corn, 4 cucumber, 8 pumpkin, and 8 watermelon. Everything was going GREAT the first 6 weeks and then.... then slowly things started to take a turn for the worse.

     First one of my big tomato plants started curling up on the leaves, they felt so dry and the plant itself didn't get as near as tall as the other one I would say about a foot or so shorter. So..... I turned to my favorite source ever, Pinterest and Google. I wasn't seeing any bugs, also I had already Sevin dusted everything when the squash bugs showed up so I felt that was covered on that. I also added new fresh garden soil for the raised bed this spring when I built the beds so I felt I wasn't lacking in nutrients or anything. Next thought was overwatering so I skipped a day of watering because to be honest the dirt wasn't that dry anything but then my big plant started to shrivel up a little bit, and SO DID MY PEPPERS. They started getting dry and curled up and after I skipped a watering some of the big leaves flipped over upside down. :/

     Now in my top garden bed my zucchini plant in the middle  the leaves have started turning yellow and falling off, and they are droopy and the other leaves on the same plant have become thin and "sharp" looking. At first I was thinking it was the bugs but let me tell you, I have done my time on my knees in that garden. I crawl around in the evenings and smash bugs, flip over every leaf, I don't think it's bugs and it's the only plant. So again, I don't know what is wrong. A few of the blooms that had already started to bear fruit died also kind of like blossom end rot? On that note, a bunch of the blossoms on my tomato plants shrivel up and died too before they even started showing. 

     Okay so in the first picture is my zucchini plant as soon as I started noticing the problem, in the second picture is it a few days. Notice how the leaves are shriveling up and becomes "sharper" like the rough edges are becoming more pronounced.

          SOMEONE HELP ME!  

Now, on a better note I was able to relax a little before I went on my bug smashing spree. So enjoy!!