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Jun 25, 2014 9:32 PM CST
Maryville, Tn (Zone 7a)
Composter Dog Lover Canning and food preservation Vegetable Grower Garden Ideas: Level 2
Abhege, I wish I had taken a picture of them before I started the Epsom salt/coffee dustings and relocated. They were so yellow and I had leaves falling off Sad but thank you for thinking they look pretty good. Oh no! I thought vermiculite aerated not absorbed go figure I'd get them backwards. I have some mixed into the dirt but had some left over and found it somewhat reflective so I put it on top of the dirt to see if that helped get them more sun lol.

Rick, that was my first thought was nitrogen deficiency (at that time my maters were really small so not blocking some of their sun). But maybe that is it somewhat considering the Epsom salt is helping? By the way, I am noticing that my tomato plants are now starting to yellow base going up so now I'm dusting their roots too I'll try hitting them with some more fertilizer I used a long release fertilizer when I first planted them but it's been a while. Since then all I've been using is the coffee and Epsom salt.

For the past 2 days it's been raining so when it dries up a bit I'll dig a little trench and see what's going on in there. Maybe I am watering too much I've been hitting them about 15 minutes every other day when not raining but I'm used to a completely different soil.

And dyzzy the ones I moved was bc the squash plants literally tried to grow on top of them! Here I thought I gave those plants plenty of room and they go crazy. They are looking a lot better now that they've been relocated. The peppers are different types 1st picture they're both cayenne the yellower one in the 2nd picture is a snacking sweet pepper and the greener one in that same picture is a cayenne. I am worried about sun especially even with spacing them inb/t the tomatoes the tomatoes have grown together. Like a mater wall! But I'm pretty sure they still get about 9ish hrs of sun from around 10am till dusk. Last year though, my peppers had dawn till dusk sun and they did wonderfully so maybe I did mess up on my placement.
Have a black thumb except for vegetables and that's even a hit or miss
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