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> 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.
>>>>> So who is gardening this year?
>>>>> 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.
>>> 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.
>>> We sound like we have similar gardens, with the exception of tomato
>>> plants. I have too many, all organic too. :)
>>> Any suggestions on the aspargus?
>> Checked the PH level? Checked calcium level?
>> Asparagus likes a high PH level.
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>>
>>> Jo
>> --
>> Chris Dukes
>> "Let all the babies be born. Then let us drown those we do not like."
>> -- G. K. Chesterton.
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> Ditto on adding lime if the pH is too low.
> A 7.2 pH is not at all outrageous for asparagus.
Wow, then I am definitely off.. Thanks!
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