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quite hurry's up running out of shelf space on started plants ! My hydro tomatoes are coming off at a good pace also .

W O W ... i bet it smells gud n there...u da man~~~!!!~~~

Some plants started to climb out of their cups so those got planted. Got an early start on peppers too. I put those in big pots since those have done better in posts for me. Planted a blueberry bush. She shall see.

Was surprised today to find 8 tomatoes on my sugary plants. I transplanted them 4 weeks ago and it looks like the gamble paid off. Very different down here in Houston compared to growing in Dallas.

OK, nothing is really taking off in my raised beds. I basically built the boxes, filled them with "veggie blend" from Living Earth and then planted.

A couple salad plants have died and nothing else appears to be doing well either. I thought the veggie mix had some fertilizer in it, which it does not after I called an confirmed. So, I bought liquid miracle grow and have been watering with that once per week.

What else can I use that may be better than the miracle grow?

Adding a thin layer of composted cow manure seems to have helped my plants this year.

Thought about that. I did the raised beds because I am tired of messing with weeds. I was concerend adding cow manure would introduce weed seeds.

Your raised beds may need a season of nitro fixers as the soil balances out. In my first raised bed, only thing that would grow was green beans and peas, both nitro fixing plants. The following season I had no issues growing anything. As a rule of thumb now, when I build a bed, I'll start it with a nitro fixing cover crop and then turn that in. Once the soil consumes all that biomass you'll notice a huge difference in the health of your plants. Purple hull peas are great too because they grow in bad soil and have a good tap root and a lot of foliage to mix into the soil.

Depends on what you planted but you'll need sunshine and warmer ground temps for seed germination.

TX4 is sounds like your mix is not finished composting/breaking down yet. A lot of the microbes will use up nitrogen during this process and not allow the plants to take it up. You can plant legumes like CalKid mentioned, but I would work in some Black Kow brand manure into the soil and use one of the Medina Products. Either the Hastagro or Soil Activator. But I would definitely do some things to increase the bioactivity in your soil.

Thanks for the tips. So is everything that I planted basically toast for this year?

work in that black kow and the hastagro and I think you will like the results your stuff should take off.

The miracle grow you applied should be fully available for the plants to absorb so if they don't respond in a couple weeks then I would move on. The veggie mix you bought is good stuff, already loaded with compost, it may need to breakdown a little more so the nutrients are available to the plants. If the lettuces don't work this spring, you can replant in mid September for a Thanksgiving harvest.

Thanks again guys. I am down in Houston now and will be driving back (through Ennis ). I may try and stop and get some of that mushroom compost if you guys think it would be good. Where in Madisonville can i get it?

I posted the other day my local nursery was selling it for $6 per bag. We'll...That day I was there buying up some closeouts and just figured it was mushroom as that's what they have always had. Went to get compost Saturday morning and said they aren't selling the mushroom anymore they switched. The owner wasn't in so I didn't push the issue as to why. But I don't really like the compost I got. It seems to be more shredded wood chips/soil mix. I guess it will be ok, but I'll drive to Hatchie to get the shroom to the Greenery. But I digress.

Call the Greenery. 972-617-5459 in Hatchie. They probably have it and they are 5 minutes off the bypass. Or call the plant and see if they can give you the closest places on your route that has it 936-730-3600

The shroom is the shizzle.