RE: New Plants for spring

Merri,
You certainly have had a lot to deal with!  Your comments below regarding
strange wilts & blights, stunting and bitterness makes me wonder about the
presence of either heavy metals or pesticides in the existing soil.  Since
your original soil has been tested by an expert consultant, I assume none of
those harmful elements were in your soil.  But what about the amendments you
have been adding?  Are they all from the same source?  Perhaps there are
toxic things in the amendments.  How about your neighbors?  Are they having
similar problems?  Have you talked to your county extension agent?  This is
all so strange!

Marilyn Dube'
Natural Designs Nursery
Portland, Oregon
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> trace mineral supplement.  Strange wilts and blights killed
> many plants--for
> three years peas withered and died, tomatoes died from what I
> think was
> verticillium, root crops were stunted and bitter, a planting
> of vinca minor
> blighted and almost died.  Colchicums I planted one fall came up the
> following spring with small leaves and then just dwindled away, never
> blooming again.  Cimicifugas didn't bloom for four years
> after I got them,
> though they were in bloom when I purchased them.

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