Re: [gardeners] sickly tomatoes
penny x stamm (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Sun, 15 Jul 2001 00:39:03 -0400
Bargyla,
My husband believes that more water is always the cure
for plants which are doing poorly. He passes by the water
controls, and gives different things an extra drink -- today
I found a hose trickling onto the root area of a pink dogwood,
because he thought it was drooping. I got so exasperated that
I picked up the hose and threw in on top of a rhododendron
hedge -- Holy Toledo -- that was noon, and now it's midnight,
and that thing must be still running! You know what they say
about too many cooks spoil the broth.... Time out while I put
on some shoes, and go outside. ..
Yup, the water was still running. <Sigh> It's like keeping an
eye on a baby..
He actually prepared the veggie garden very well this spring.
He added compost and a whole bale of peat moss, and
rototilled the whole thing under, levelled it, and planted
sugar snap peas, radishes, string beans ---- today we have
one lonesome pea vine. Everything else rotted. He drowned
the garden.
"I'll learn," he says. He'll be 80 in January. Not much chance...
Penny, NY
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