yellow pear tomato, leaves curling upward, not yellow

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blaciris Athens, GA Jun 22, 2009

This is the first year of my gardening and I have planted 2 yellow pear tomatoes. They grew really well at first, much faster than my other varieties, already flowering and bearing little tomatoes. However, a couple of weeks ago, the top foliage of one of the plants started to curled up, and gradually the curling developed to the top half of the plant. The leaves are still green and are not turning yellow or sick in any other way, just curling up. It's still flowering and growing and no bugs. It just does not look like some disease. Lately the other yellow pear seems to start the same thing. I tried to water more but I don't think the curling is due to lack of water. None of the other variety tomatoes in the same bed have this problem. Does anyone know what could be going on? I'm from South Georgia and the weather has been exceptionally hot and humid in the past month. (there have been a few days above 100F) And there are no shade in my garden so the tomatoes have been exposed to full sun and high heat everyday. Could this be the reason? If so, what can I do to help the plants? According to a few website I checked, it may also be caused by poor drainage of the soil. (There had been a few really bad thunderstorms that could have caused that.) If so, what could I do to loose the soil?

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