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Re: Problems with garden

There could be any number of factors involved. If there are no signs of
grubs or other insect pest, I would go with depleted soil nutrients. After I
harvest a crop I work in additional compost matter. Some of the material
consists of whole leaves from the fall. Wait two weeks and replant. I can
only speculate that the whole leaves act as a slow release fertilizer as
they rot.

Only one person's opinion.

John Huff
ICQ Participant
jhu554@airmail.net
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-----Original Message-----
From: LaurenB312 <LaurenB312@AOL.COM>
To: sqft@lists.umsl.edu <sqft@lists.umsl.edu>
Date: Sunday, December 14, 1997 4:57 AM
Subject: Problems with garden


>I haven't written much, but have read alot and I have a problem.  When I
>started out, the first year my sq ft garden was wonderful, lots of
everything
>and it all looked great and tasted great.  Since then, every year has been
>worse.  I've tried to alternate where I put the different types of plants
and
>have used lots of amendments and composted manure and stuff.  This last
year
>my cucumber vines grew to a reasonable size and then died off.  The tomato
>vines also never really got a chance to produce.  The only thing I got in
>number was Serrano Peppers and those did beautifully, but the rest of my
>peppers only produced one or two each.  Help.  Could I have gotten diseases
in
>the soil and if so would the clear plastic treatmen work.  I'm in
California
>so you can grow year round, but I even gave it a rest for a season and that
>didn't help.  We get some frost, but not enough to cause problems or even
help
>kill off stuff.  Right now I got so disgusted that I let the grass grow and
>it's really tall.  Should I pull it?  Mow it?  Leave it under the plastic
and
>later compost it?  Please, I want to get back to producing again.  Paige
>
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