After a timely, long, and very helpful chat with The Wise One, the conclusion came down to this:
it was time to buy more fertilizer.
I don’t know why I should be surprised. This is the theme of this season.
So I drove to the store and said “do you have fertilizer?”
To which they said “yes, we sell fertilizer.”
To which I said “great, I’ll take it.”
“All of it?”
“Yes, pretty much.”
It was mostly like this. I will spare you the details of the rest of the day.
But in case you’re curious here they are:
I cleaned up the two non-functioning rows–the onions (as onions everywhere said WE GOT HER) and the lettuces. {I knew the lettuces were going to be a non-starter, but I had hoped by some miracle that they would catch on fast. Then I got foiled by the nitrogen, and viola…nernt.} So back to those dead spaces: I added 1/2 inch of Black Kow, spread some fertilizer, and some acidifier. I will be ordering some specific seed varieties {beans and peas that do well late in the season} that The Wise One recommended for those spots.
Everything else that was growing, if not limping along, got a dose of fertilizer and slow-release soil acidifier. The peach tree and the blueberries got a dose of liquid soil acidifier that The Wise One said will acidify more quick-like.
Everything was again mulched with pine straw…except for that spot on the other side of the fence where David said “hey did you mulch that spot I asked you to like four weeks ago?”
Oops, I really did forget.
Yeeeeeah.
It’s because that side of the fence doesn’t grow cucumbers.
