RE: Bye Bye Garden... Guess All Good Things Will End Sooner Or Later
Oh, wow. Sorry to hear about this, @simplymike. I take it the neighboring farms or gardens aren't experiencing the same issues? If not, that would seem to make it very localized. I would think someone around would have some kind of soil or water kit to measure levels with that wouldn't cost a lot to borrow or use.
Some kind of change that occurred towards the end of last growing season, or a little before that, to get to the levels necessary to kill off the harvest. What could it be?
Well, I know it sounds like it's hopeless (and maybe for this year it is), but I'm still going to hold out hope that this situation will be resolved somehow, at some point. There are practical purposes for having a garden, obviously, in addition to the refuge it's been for you. What about bringing in dirt and setting up separate beds, even on a small scale? At least you could see if things grow that way, and if it does, then you'll know it's in the ground and not in the water? I don't know. I'm grasping at straws here—the guy who doesn't like to garden is trying to save yours! :)
I've put this particular one in the green house for now, since we're srill getting frost temparutes at night again.
So part of me has high hopes thatit was just the frost that got to the new, fresh buds.
Gônna have my soil tested, but it is a pretty expensive deed for just a backyard grden...
Gonna wait it out for another week or so and looks ar what happens....
Ah. Okay. Frost and cold weather. Let's hope that's it.
Hopefully things will resolve by themselves. It sounded like from the post that you were giving up on everything, so I'm glad to see that some of it might be salvaged. Hopefully the expense of the soil test once you do get it will be worth the money. It's doubtful things are dying just out of spite, so you're bound to learn something, one way or another. :)
It not only sounded like I was giving up... the state of mind I was in was very negative. Fortunately, I've been able to turn it around since a couple of days.
It's back 'full force ahead'.
Thanks for reminding me about the soil test. I completely forgot. Will be first thing on the list tomorrow
You're welcome. Glad to be of help, even inadvertently. :) I'm also glad to hear things have turned around attitude-wise. I'll leave you alone to get things done. :)