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To: SaveFerris; All

If you can grab some soil and it stays in a ball, stop watering. Plants can look, ‘wilted’ when they’re getting too much water, too!

How’s your drainage? Do you have things well mulched? Dig around in there and see how wet the soil is before you add to the problem.

Some of my tomatoes have curling leaves on the bottom and that is a sign of too much water.

We’ve gotten about 4” this past week, so my garden is looking, ‘wilty’ too! :)

Now, that said - let things dry out a bit, but then fertilize. I am giving my tomatoes & peppers and summer squashes and cukes a shot of bone meal and AlgoFlash this upcoming week. Also give bone meal to peppers and your summer squashes to prevent Blossom End Rot.

Calcium (bone meal) is the first nutrient to leech from the soil, and more so when we’ve had a lot of rain.

Good rule of thumb is that everything (human, tree, beast and tomato) need 1” of water a week during the growing season.


80 posted on 07/01/2017 2:33:44 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I don’t know. Gotta look at them again. They’re all in large pots, for the most part. I do have an open bag of bone meal so I might hit them again. It was a really heavy rain so I’m sure it washed a lot out.

Gonna try to find some epsom salts - the WM’s around run out fast or so it seemed a couple months ago.


89 posted on 07/01/2017 2:57:55 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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