Tomatoes and flower beds, oh my!
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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 03:26 pm (UTC)hee! I love it so!!
And your tomatoes are impressive! I am about to prune, too. They are way out of control and I want them to put their energy into fruit, damn it! XD
Dude, mine are insane. I'm so mad at myself--I totally forgot to tell Husband to prune them while I was gone. He watered them faithfully, but never pruned them. grah!
I have also burnt my plants with too much fertilizer, but watering a lot will work. I think the thing is to just keep to the manufacturer's directions and not fertilize too often or too much. I should look in my Garden Problem solver tonight and see if I can find other causes for that.
Yeah, I feel really stupid because I planted them in soil that contained fertilizer--and I even thought it might be too much for them but I did it anyway! grah!
My dad once said that the fish and game control office will give people free fish eggs for their ponds to get fish in them. I am not sure if that is still true, though.
Our pond has fish in it already--often waterfowl carry the eggs on their legs! Isn't that fun?
And OMG you should see the bullfrogs. Huge! *snuggles the frogs*