Carrots won't grow
Mt Gardenerlady
4 years ago
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Comments (4)Try soaking your seeds overnight. Are the seeds sown shallowly? Too deep and they'll be unable to emerge. It's also best if they're covered with a fluffy soil instead of a hard-packed one or else they can't push to the surface. Or maybe they just need some more time; carrots take a bit of patience before they germinate....See MoreDesert Rose won't grow, won't flower
Comments (20)Hi guys thanks for all your help- I am not going to repost in the other forum at this time b/c I think I got some very good information here. I went to walmart today and they were out of cactus mix. Sigh. They did have a bag of perlite tho- but I wanted to check with you guys first if this is the correct thing to buy, and if so- what do I do with it. I have a bag of miracle grow potting soil- I am assuming I need to mix these two together. I also have some small gravel- about bean sized. I plan to put him in a terra cotta pot since plastic holds the water and doesn't breath. I could use some instructions on the dirt mix tho- and as an aside- I purchased a succulent that needs to be repotted- do I use the same type of soil for him? I also have two lemon trees I grew from seed that I wanted to put into citrus mix, however they didn't even carry that this year. No they don't ever grow lemons, sometimes they flower but that's ok- the leaves smell really nice....See Morepeppers you won't grow again
Comments (32)I am looking for another one with similar heat level as habs, but to be early and fast growing. Scotch Bonnet ? Red Fatalii ? &&&&&& How have I never grown scotch bonnets? I will have to correct that if I am able to grow a garden next year. Anyway, getting an early harvest is why I grow a lot of peppers in containers. Having them in containers makes it easy to bring them inside and overwinter them without having to dig them out of the ground. Doing that gives me a harvest a couple of months early. And I'm a bit prejudiced by my habanero love, I guess, but it have not found them to be slow growing. They are incredibly slow starting, so you have to start them very early. But that's not the same as slow growing. Once they get going, they grow really fast if conditions are good. And for an even earlier supply of habaneros . . . Well, that's why I am learning to preserve this year. Having a ton of dried and pickled, canned habaneros should do the trick. I hope. :) Angie...See MoreSFG won't grow!
Comments (7)I'm suspicious this might be my problem too! I admit, I only used 2 fertilizers, one of them bought from wal-mart :( Now I know better! This picassa album has some pictures of my failing zucchini plants: http://picasaweb.google.com/timcharper/GardeningZucchiniFail#5499151256208127970 Strangely, our summer squash is doing wonderful. Beans are meh. Cabbage did great. Carrots are tasty, but a little small and slow growing. Everything, actually, seems to be behind schedule. Our tomato plants are huge and look healthy, but have only a handful of slowly developing green tomatoes, with a lot of dying buds (last pic in the album shows it) I'm going to try to add the bloodmeal and high nitrogen, as suggested above, and see if it will turn things around. I hope it will!!! (we water 3 times a week, with our sprinkler system, about 30 minutes. I need to start measuring how much water it's getting, but I suspect it isn't too much or too little (especially since mel says you can't over-water a SQFT garden)) Here is a link that might be useful: My sad zucchini...See MoreMt Gardenerlady
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