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| This is my first year growing anything had a disappointing garlic crop and pikl bugs destroyed my turnips now I'm trying to get some tomatoes and peppers this is what the current situation looks like. However I keep losing my bottom leaves I just pulled the mulch back and had extensive root development in the mulch but added a couple good hanfuls of manure compost and some jobes. So main question is did I mess up pulling mulch back because roots were less than a half inch under mulch. Mulch is 3 in deep in bed. Also my sweet 100s are only making sets with about 15 fruits I know they can put out ridiculous numbers but just wondering if mine are slacking. I have sooooo many more questions especially about my peppers but they'll have to wait til I get more info and off my phone and on a computer. This pic is almost a week old and the plants are about 8 inches taller do I need to trellis them since they outgrew the cages? |
This post was edited by efaunt86 on Tue, Jun 25, 13 at 1:02
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| It looks very good. Your maters look healthy. If your mulch was wood chips, probably you did the right thing. However manure compost on the roots might be too strong. I like mulching with straw and pine straw. The purpose of mulching and its benefits benefit are threefold. One: can help prevent weeds growth. Two : can help prevent the surface from drying out quicker: And third : I warm climates it ca help to keep the roots cooler, specially if the plants spacing is wide and you get all day direct sun, which from the picture I can tell it is the case here. |
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