Garden 2023

[Ninurta]

I'm glad I bought the tomatoes from the local supermarket because the tomato plants I planted have black patches on their bottoms. Supposedly named 'blossom end rot' which is from a lack of calcium. Oh well I tried. Also my herbs were a failure too and they were from heirloom seeds. Is it the soil?

Could be. Some of my tomatoes have the same black spots - I just chucked one over the fence into the woods today - and I had no idea what it was from. It seems to go along with my mom's recommendation today that I lime the soil in the garden to "sweeten" it, but it also applies as a remedy for a lack of calcium.

Most of my herbs are doing fine other than the thyme which is still less than 4 inches tall, and the fact that the sage, rosemary, and basil are still not blooming. I planted them along a concrete walkway, however, rather than at the upper end of the yard where I have my garden spots, so there is likely a difference in the soils there. The soil where the herbs are could probably still stand some "sweetening" from the lime, though, as I'm guessing it's pretty acidic - there's a lot of moss growing in that area, which is either a sign of acidity or a means of acidifying soil over time.

I popped my hemp plants in among the tobacco a few days ago, and it won't do very well if that soil is too acidic up there. It was a little wlity in the heat today, but I'm chalking that up to root damage from the transplanting that ought to fix itself in a week or so... but acidic soil won't do it any good in the long term, either.



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