Garden in May

[gja1000]

Originally Posted by Marilyn

Gayle, I looked at my garden again last night. I've been making sure the moisture is right, and it has plenty of sun. Been watering and spritzing with the liquid seaweed. I think I may have given it too much fertilizer. Using a 50/50 mix of compost and potting soil may have been too much. It looks like my plants are burning up. The squash plants especially. My eggplant is about a foot tall and has a tiny purple eggplant already. The squash are blooming but the leaves are almost burned up. The leaves on the tomato plants are turning yellow at the bottom and dying. The tomato plants haven't grown very much at all. My basil was doing good, but it's beginning to turn yellow, too. The only thing that looks good is the rosemary. Not sure what to do now.

I should add to my reply above, that I tried to grow tomatoes in containers a few years ago. I bought great organic potting soil, didn't add anything to it - but didn't use seaweed either (didn't know about it back then) and nothing grew very much. The tomatoes just did not grow, didn't bloom and eventually turned yellow and died. Don't know why............