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Originally Posted by gonefishin
We've got a garden at work with eight heirloom tomato plants and boy have we got problems. Our ph is so high...the plants look so awful...and there is such little fruit on these things. All I could do is shake my head every time I look at them.
This is my first season at this station...and we plan to add some add a bunch of decent dirt to the garden area. But for now...it's bad!
dan |
The Ph is still really high in the garden. But shortly after I posted this I bought some peat moss and tried to gently working it into the soil around the tomato plant. I also built a mound of peat up on the tomato plant after pruning some of the lower non-productive branches.
The results were really good. The Ph of the garden was at 8.2 this spring, before adding sulfur. The plants were still having a real tough time even after the sulfur was added to the soil along with some peat and other organic matter. But after I added the additional peat to the tomato plants they really perked up. The plants have grown into nice looking full plants with tons of blossoms! I'm not sure if the plant is going to have enough time to turn the blossoms into ripened fruit. But it is promising
dan