o am on my third season. 90% failure. still trying to figure out if its me the soil or the seeds.
“o am on my third season. 90% failure. still trying to figure out if its me the soil or the seeds.”
Do you want to be added to the gardening thread ping list? A new thread is started every Friday. Some on that thread may be able to help you decide what your growing problem is. We post to that thread from one Friday to another where another thread is started on Fridays. Here is the link to this week’s gardening thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3063499/posts?page=1
Do a soil pH test and you’ll know. Soak your seeds in hydrogen peroxide overnite before planting.
We put in a rasied-bed garden with garden soil and mushroom compost mixed in. Loose soil. Installed a drip system. Two tomato plants - both failed one never produced fruit, just flowered. The other had some fungus. We pulled both. One squash - did okay, but a lot of the squash apparently got no pollination and died on the vine without maturing. One zucchini plant - got lots of those. Two bean plants - still getting them by the handfull daily. Carrots - short, fat, not very good. Onions - nothing. Jalapeno, only 4 so far from one plant. And three peppers from another plant.
Too sum it up, we got about 3 gallon bags worth of beans, several zucchini and squash, and nary anything else. I could have driven to the nearest farm for fresh produce and paid less than I did putting in the garden and watering it.
greeneyes, please read post 57 and put Donnafrflorida on gardening list, thanks,
Marcella