{"id":3823,"date":"2011-08-01T22:48:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T02:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/?p=3823"},"modified":"2011-10-24T22:04:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T02:04:51","slug":"a-bad-reaction-to-tomato-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2011\/08\/01\/a-bad-reaction-to-tomato-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"A bad reaction to tomato plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>My garden is growing beautifully as usual this summer.   It&#8217;s been quite hot, especially in July so the plants seem to have stopped growing, but that&#8217;s ok, they all seem to be healthy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"912745ff53504cd4aef8ff3ef7b9aa95\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* gardengrows_300x250inpost *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"4054669721\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>My tomatoes are growing like weeds.   I have four Sweet 100&#8217;s tomato plants that are covered in tiny green tomatoes. I can&#8217;t wait for them to ripen so that we can have a taste. <\/p>\n<p>  I also have five regular sized tomato plants &#8211;  a variety of patio tomatoes and Early Girl Tomatoes and each of them have several large tomatoes on them in various shades ranging from green to almost red.   We&#8217;ve already had about four ripe red tomatoes from one of the plants already and they were lovely. Yum.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately earlier this evening I seem to have had a reaction to the large tomato plants.   I noticed that the tomato plant vines were flopping over so I got some bamboo stakes and some plastic green tape and started staking the tomato plants and within seconds my hands and arms were on fire &#8211; burning and itching. <\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>I&#8217;ve never had a reaction like that to tomato plants before.  I knew that the leaves and plants could be irritating to the skin but I&#8217;d never experienced any problems.  I had been working with my roses earlier and I had some scratches on my hands and arms so maybe that&#8217;s why the reaction was so bad &#8230; but man &#8230; I can still feel some burning! I had to go inside and take a Benadryl in the hopes that it would calm the reaction down.  If I&#8217;m still feeling the itching and burning on my skin at bedtime I&#8217;ll put some hydracortizone cream on my hands and arms.  Luckily I happen to have some prescription cream. <\/p>\n<p>Have any of you ever had a problem with touching tomato plants in the past?  Is it an allergy or just a bad irritation?   I have had tomatoes come up in allergy tests but I can still eat them most of the time.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds--><p>BTW  Don&#8217;t forget to also check out my other gardening blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.organic.homeandgardendiva.com\/\" data-wpel-link=\"exclude\">Organic Gardening Tips<\/a>.  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