On May 27, 8:33 pm, pak...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Tue, 27 May 2008 19:38:38 -0400 in
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> Jo <joannagl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > wdu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> On 2008-05-08, Jo <joannagl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>> I wanted to see how everyone is doing with their gardens this year.
I
> >>> haven't posted in awhile. I have managed to get my garden in this
year.
> >>> It is all organic and doing very well, thanks to rain barrels, well
rain
> >>> barrels and one HUGE one I had made that is 300+ gallons.
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> >>> So who is gardening this year?
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> >>> Jo
> >> Beans blue lake pole, 14 tomatoes, peppers, cukes, okra, eggplant.
Got
> >> great asparagus this is the 5 th year since we started harvesting the
> >> year our daughter got married. Also sugar peas and onions.
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> > I haven't had luck with my asparagus yet. I planted the crowns two
years
> > ago and it doesn't seem to do well enough to harvest. I am not sure
what
> > I am doing wrong.
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> > We sound like we have similar gardens, with the exception of tomato
> > plants. I have too many, all organic too. :)
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> > Any suggestions on the aspargus?
>
> Checked the PH level? Checked calcium level?
> Asparagus likes a high PH level.
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> > Jo
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> --
> Chris Dukes
> "Let all the babies be born. Then let us drown those we do not like."
> -- G. K. Chesterton.
Ditto on adding lime if the pH is too low.
A 7.2 pH is not at all outrageous for asparagus.
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