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Originally posted by Phil and Laura:
Three questions Spring Chicken:1 Was the area you tilled up for a new garden Lawn before? If so you may have some lawn chemicals in the dirt.2. Are there ANY Walnut trees near? #. The third isn't a question,rather more of a comment on the fine suggestions so far, the soil could have too much decomposing grass and roots in it which will affect the nitrogen levels of the dirt. Let Us know and we will all be here helping you.....PHIL

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Originally posted by weezie13:
Yep, that's what I was wondering about Phil!!!

Spring Chicken,
When you rototill your soil,
you rototill in the growth from the surface
under into the dirt, and while that is good,
in way, puts in decomposting "green"~nitrogen,
but you have to give it time to break down
way before you plant...
As the the the growth from the surface that was tilled under is decomposing...it robs the soil of nitrogen to get it's job done of decomposing....

Now when you planted the veggies and this stuff is decomposing underneath, it's stealing nitrogen from your plants' roots... So the plant reacts and because it is starved for nitrogen......

What I might do is, find some dry fertilizer you dissolve in water, check the numbers on the side of the container, you want the first number to be higher than the last 2 (ie; 20~10~10) give your plants a drink of that stuff, and drench the leaves as well as the rooting area!!!
(This will give you a quick fix for your starving plant, the leaves will give it a good foliar feed as well.) Follow the directions for it............
But not toooooo many times, or too much, you're experiencing the one spectrum of too little nitrogen, you can burn your plants if you give your plant too much nitrogen....
Maybe do the liquid fertiler once or twice when you water, and find some rabbit manure, VERY OLD chicken, something like that and spread on top, maybe scratch it in a bit, not too deep so you don't disturb the roots....
Remember, too much can cause burning!!!

Give that a try and let us know!!!

Weezie

If I've confused you, don't hesitate to ask me to clearify something, heck I confuse myself sometimes!!!

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Thank for the help Weezy, I'll try this and see.
You've explained it perfectly

I do have another question about another part of my yard, We had a dog lot that I took down and rototilled as I planned on replanting with flowers or back into grass.
Could this area be used for garden plants as well? The area was used for our german shepherds and very little grass was left. Either way what should I do for the soil before re sewing or planting?

I want to also thank y'all for the great info on the other problem!!

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Originally posted by weezie13:
Spring Chicken,
No other places to put the bed???

Container gardening??
Big 5 gallon buckets and trough's for this year???

Weezie

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Originally posted by Phil and Laura:
Hi Spring Chicken,
You can remove the sod where that new garden bed will be, take it out with a good square nose shovel , in chunks, and put it in low or bald spots in your lawn, water it ALOT

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Okra has sprouted up about 2 inches.

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Did you start it from seed???

My mother picked up a package, she likes it, and always liked picking up one thing to grow she'd never grown before, that's her pick this year!
I haven't grown it from seed,
any pointers????????

Weezie

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