Tomatoes and flower beds, oh my!
Jun. 28th, 2009 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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florence_craye and artystone, but perhaps a few of you might find these pics interesting...
Underneath the cut, pics of our front flower bed (before and after), pics of our tomato plants, pics of awesome pretty clematis, and pics of our pond!
Okay, so here we go. Pretties first. This is the view of our pond:
And two pics of clematis...so pretty!
Here's the left front flower bed. Silly me, I forgot to grab the camera until after we had pulled out the first shrub. But still, you get the idea. Ugh! I hated those shrubs SO much. grah. I'm so glad they're gone. We're still working on the right front flower bed...pictures later this week, hopefully.
There is one change--the irises all growing (literally) on top of each other on the left hand side have been split and redistributed through the bed.
And now, the great tomato problem!
The tomato plants are growing like gangbusters, they're flowering a little, but the leaves--ALL of the leaves--are curling and withering slightly at the edges. Even the new leaves. I have a feeling that the soil I planted them in contained too much fertilizer, and they're a little burned. Any opinions?
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florence_craye and artystone, but perhaps a few of you might find these pics interesting...Underneath the cut, pics of our front flower bed (before and after), pics of our tomato plants, pics of awesome pretty clematis, and pics of our pond!
Okay, so here we go. Pretties first. This is the view of our pond:
And two pics of clematis...so pretty!
Here's the left front flower bed. Silly me, I forgot to grab the camera until after we had pulled out the first shrub. But still, you get the idea. Ugh! I hated those shrubs SO much. grah. I'm so glad they're gone. We're still working on the right front flower bed...pictures later this week, hopefully.
There is one change--the irises all growing (literally) on top of each other on the left hand side have been split and redistributed through the bed.
And now, the great tomato problem!
The tomato plants are growing like gangbusters, they're flowering a little, but the leaves--ALL of the leaves--are curling and withering slightly at the edges. Even the new leaves. I have a feeling that the soil I planted them in contained too much fertilizer, and they're a little burned. Any opinions?
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Date: 2009-06-29 02:40 pm (UTC)I love the tiled outside of your house. Very pretty.
I'm sure the tomatoes will be ok. Tomatoes grow in almost everything. As people suggested in warm weather give them a lot of water to flush the fertilizer out. they may still grow quite some tomatoes though.
Your place is awesome (I had to repeat that one).
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Date: 2009-06-29 03:22 pm (UTC)It's a big pond! It's owned between three houses--what you're seeing in the first photo is ours, and the second photo is split between the neighbors on the right and in back. (There are two houses behind the trees that aren't visible in the pics.)
It is deep enough to swim in, but you wouldn't want to, because of the fowl contamination and also the mud, mud, mud.
I'm sure the tomatoes will be ok. Tomatoes grow in almost everything. As people suggested in warm weather give them a lot of water to flush the fertilizer out. they may still grow quite some tomatoes though.
I am definitely going to keep them on a strict diet of water, water, water! hee!
Your place is awesome (I had to repeat that one).
Aw, thank you so much!! *beams*