What did you do in your garden today?

[flowerbug]

...One is definitely struggling though, and the confusing part is its the first one I planted, the one that ended up with the most peat moss! We have red clay soil here, so its already a bit acidic, so im pretty frustrated.

peat moss has not really that much in the way of nutrients. you may need to give it a bit more nitrogen.

also there are other considerations like if it is at the end of a row and getting more winds that could be drying it out or perhaps it is near a wall and gets heated up more or ? does water flow through the area ? is it getting more shade or light? or maybe the root system is twisted and bound? there's really a lot of different possibilities.

 

[Rillowen]

peat moss has not really that much in the way of nutrients. you may need to give it a bit more nitrogen.

also there are other considerations like if it is at the end of a row and getting more winds that could be drying it out or perhaps it is near a wall and gets heated up more or ? does water flow through the area ? is it getting more shade or light? or maybe the root system is twisted and bound? there's really a lot of different possibilities.

Hmm. I planted them in a box shape, one at each corner, at the edge of a hay field. So lots of sun, nothing else nearby. We are on top of a hill, with lots of sun and wind so maybe it got too dry over winter? I was concerned about the nutrients, that's why I planted in acidic compost too. I gave them fish emulsion and stink garden bucket last year, but dropped off in the winter and just started back up. Maybe that one just didn't get enough, it was the biggest.

I also didn't cover them this winter, I gave them a nice 6inches of pine mulch and thought that was good. Maybe the other 2, being smaller, were ok but the biggest one took too much cold damage? I got the varieties good for our climate, but we had an unusual winter, with lots of more drastic ups and downs than normal. And maybe I should have covered them to begin with.