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To: rightly_dividing

Looks like to much rain is doing in quite a few of my tomato plants. The landscape fabric and the mulch I have topped it with is keeping the soil a little to moist. I need a few days without the afternoon popcorn showers - some have been quite heavy. I will be putting up some shade cloth in the next few days as the temps are rising and the glaring sun and heat to a job on my tomatoes.


32 posted on 06/27/2014 2:12:30 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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To: Red_Devil 232

We dont mulch over the fabric, so it probably helps evaporation. The garden is on a hill and is sandy soil, so soil too wet has not been a problem for us, plus, this part of Texas doesn’t get much rain in a normal year, less most years lately.

Our “window” in the tree canopy is closing up, I think, so we may not be able to garden much longer. If we don’t get better looking plants going in the next 2 seasons, we will probably shut it down.


40 posted on 06/27/2014 2:29:01 PM PDT by rightly_dividing (Liberals donÂ’t think along the same lines as Americans--FReeper ScottinVA)
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