Stem Rot

This disease seems to be spreading across the garden and killing indiscriminately (tomatoes, peppers, beans, ...). The picture below is exactly what it looks like (with tiny orange dots below the ground) and kills the plant completely and quickly. As soon as you notice you have it, the plant is dead, if it's a small plant. A giant productive tomato plant takes a few days to kill. Major bummer.

What's the cause??

Nice Quote and Art

Looking Down Yosemite Valley,California 1865 by Albert Bierstadt onn Display At Birmingham Museum Of Art

"Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous, &c. Consider every act of this kind, as an exercise which will strengthen your moral faculties and increase your worth." - Thomas Jefferson