I'll know by Wednesday but......

BVGardener · March 28, 2008

I hear ya, Feldon. I think what bugs me the most - more than the poor performance of the plants - is that I had made so many improvements to the garden including a weed-free perimeter around the outside of the garden fence and about four large trees that needed to be cut down which increased the sunlight duration and coverage significantly.

bryanccfshr, prior to last week I had prepared the beds per usual and it was based on Earl's hole method which is slightly tweaked. Essentially, the only difference between his method and what I'm doing is that I don't dig holes. I've been very successful with this method. A typical bed would be as follows.

Bed Size: 3' x 24' long.
Six bags of manure/humus (240 pounds - .05.05.05)
Tomato Tone (applied per package inst.)
Bone Meal (applied per package inst.)
Epsom Salts (essentially less than a handful per plant but this application actually covers a great deal more area than where the plant will be placed in the ground.

The above ingrediants would be well raked into the soil and the whole 3' x 24' garden row would be well watered. The row preparation would have begun the weekend of the 15th. Plants started going in on March 18th.

Ray, yes, I'll get some photos up soon. I started to do that yesterday but all I ended up doing was watering the plants and calling it a night.

dice, that photo in the link is exactly what I'm seeing on a few of the plants. The high sustained winds we have been experiancing has been beyond belief and this has been going on since well before I put the plants in the ground. Yesterday was no exception and was one of the most windy days yet.

I wonder if lifting the plants out of the ground and soaking them in a diluted MG solution would help?

Thanks Duane, hopefully we can figure something out.

Jay

March 28, 2008	#24
BVGardener Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Texas Posts: 542	I hear ya, Feldon. I think what bugs me the most - more than the poor performance of the plants - is that I had made so many improvements to the garden including a weed-free perimeter around the outside of the garden fence and about four large trees that needed to be cut down which increased the sunlight duration and coverage significantly. bryanccfshr, prior to last week I had prepared the beds per usual and it was based on Earl's hole method which is slightly tweaked. Essentially, the only difference between his method and what I'm doing is that I don't dig holes. I've been very successful with this method. A typical bed would be as follows. Bed Size: 3' x 24' long. Six bags of manure/humus (240 pounds - .05.05.05) Tomato Tone (applied per package inst.) Bone Meal (applied per package inst.) Epsom Salts (essentially less than a handful per plant but this application actually covers a great deal more area than where the plant will be placed in the ground. The above ingrediants would be well raked into the soil and the whole 3' x 24' garden row would be well watered. The row preparation would have begun the weekend of the 15th. Plants started going in on March 18th. Ray, yes, I'll get some photos up soon. I started to do that yesterday but all I ended up doing was watering the plants and calling it a night. dice, that photo in the link is exactly what I'm seeing on a few of the plants. The high sustained winds we have been experiancing has been beyond belief and this has been going on since well before I put the plants in the ground. Yesterday was no exception and was one of the most windy days yet. I wonder if lifting the plants out of the ground and soaking them in a diluted MG solution would help? Thanks Duane, hopefully we can figure something out. Jay