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Post by Belia on Jun 20, 2016 23:27:36 GMT
Awww.... I am so sorry. Gardening is such hard work! I totes admire anyone who gardens. Go ahead and have a huge cry.
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Post by Delta Dawn on Jun 20, 2016 23:28:10 GMT
If gardening is your "thing" and I know it is a thing how is this different from losing all your scrapbooking supplies in a flood? I think it sucks majorly! I am sorry and feel terrible about you losing your precious plants. Grrr.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2016 23:45:45 GMT
My hats off to you for gardening. I have a black thumb and can't make anything stay pretty. I have a large flower pot outside my house right now that is just dying and frustrating me to no end. I don't know if I'm watering it too much, not enough or what the deal is. :-(
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Post by peasapie on Jun 20, 2016 23:53:18 GMT
I'm sorry. That stinks.
If it makes you feel any better, my new rose tree developed mold problems last year within a few weeks after I bought it. It took so much work to get it back to health - I spent the rest of the summer babying it. This spring it had a beautiful first bloom, and within the past week the leaves have all turned to lace...now it's pests eating my rose bush.
We make plans. Mother Nature laughs.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2016 23:56:05 GMT
I had nearly 2 hundred little tomatoes starts. They were so cute!
And the cat thought so too. He ate all of them!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2016 0:01:03 GMT
I'm sorry...that sucks! I went to my local nursery Friday and bought three new perennials (a globe amaranth, a lantana and a straw flower), got them planted and watered really well and by Sunday morning, the effing rabbits had eaten all three plants down to the ground....I was not happy and thank goodness I bought them at deep end of season discount.
I have to keep rabbit fencing around my vegetable garden or I wouldn't be able to have one. I really don't want to do that with flower beds.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2016 0:14:22 GMT
I'm so sorry. That is tough. My dad grew prize winning tomatoes so I know how much heart and soul goes into gardening. I checked with a friend who is a grad assistant studying plant science at Texas A&M. I read your post to her and this is what she said: 1. The best thing to do is plant disease resistant species of tomatoes. 2. "Solarize" the soil. Cover it with clear plastic for two months to kill as much of the fungus as possible. 3. Use calcium-nitrate fertilizer vs. ammonium fertilizer. 4. Try to keep the soil at a pH level os 6.5 to 7.0. If you are an organic gardner she said look at THIS website for tips to change pH levels. 5. If you are located in the hot Southern states, make sure you use lots of mulch to keep soil temperature. She did agree that you cannot plant tomatoes in the same spot, but said going on a four year stretch is longer than necessary. She said if you follow the steps above and go through one planting cycles the soil can be used again for tomatoes. She did stress use fungus/disease resistant tomato species. Here is to a better crop next year! You can do this! |
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Post by librarylady on Jun 21, 2016 0:57:14 GMT
Container grown tomatoes for a few years. Of course you can't grow huge numbers of plants.
But, I feel your pain.
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Post by chaosisapony on Jun 21, 2016 1:39:15 GMT
I totally get it and will validate your tears!
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Post by grove420 on Jun 21, 2016 1:40:54 GMT
I know it won't make you feel any better but the same thing happened to me. I bought starts from Loews (supposedly disease resistant) and I fertilized, watered, and loved them according to directions. The little yellow blossoms had me excited and my mouth watering for juicy vine ripened, home grown tomatoes. Then the lower branches went limp and the leaves developed brown spots. One by one I lost them until there is now only one left and I'm sure it's going to have the same fate. I'm just so sad that I won't be picking tomatoes from my backyard for evening meals. I would try container plants but I know nothing about working with them.
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Post by anniefb on Jun 21, 2016 1:46:26 GMT
So disappointing and frustrating - sorry you're dealing with this. I can relate - I have a large garden with lots of fruit trees and was just told by the guy who does the pruning that one pear tree will have to come out because it has fireblight. Ugh. But I don't want to chance it and have it spread to apple trees.
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Post by gryroagain on Jun 21, 2016 2:27:14 GMT
I know exactly how you feel! We moved to this house in November, and it's amazing we have a small garden, we are in Seoul, Korea so that is rare. I dreamed all winter of making it a gorgeous oasis (it's walled). Ordered seeds, got planters, it's so cute. Planted mounds of nasturtiums (I love them and they are easy), poppies, sunflowers in the open flower bed.
Everything is beautiful and lush..,except my potted flowers start to die randomly. I'm not a gardener, but replacing them didn't help, and the die off spreads. Get brown spots, wilt, stop flowering, freeze in a crusty brown mess. Finally I realize it's a mite, so I spray. But it's a mite carried virus of some kind, and my gorgeous bed has it. The nasturtiums are cupping and spotty. The sunflowers have spots now too, and they only just opened.
I am going to toss out all the durst in the pots and scrub them with bleach, but I don't think anything can be done for the bed. I guess I will just have spotty plants that die halfway thru summer every year. I'm SO sad!! I have worked so hard on this yard!
So cry away- my beautiful Seoul oasis is fading away and all the hours I put into clearing it and planting were for nothing. I'm so sorry.
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