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<blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 4053992" data-attributes="member: 5412"><p>Buddies garden that I contributed to has been putting lots of potatoes out. Different sizes, most tennis ball size with lots of little ones that we really like in fresh green beans and general cooking. </p><p>I counseled him before he did it saying it needed to be put on the side to turn into mulch, but he got Aspelund to bring in about two tons of fresh wood chips to put on the garden to be tilled into the ground. His thinking was that they would decay and be free fertilizer. My thinking is that in the decaying process they would rob nitrogen from the soil and require lots of fertilizer that he can't afford, but he went ahead and did it anyway. </p><p>His tomatoes are wilted with no blooms, the corn is yellow and not growing, squash plants are stagnant with little growth. </p><p>The sandy loam soil is like concrete now. Guess I was right, and I'm not paying today's prices for some nitrogen fertilizer to bail him out. </p><p>This is probably going to haunt that 1/4 acre garden for many years to come.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dennishoddy, post: 4053992, member: 5412"] Buddies garden that I contributed to has been putting lots of potatoes out. Different sizes, most tennis ball size with lots of little ones that we really like in fresh green beans and general cooking. I counseled him before he did it saying it needed to be put on the side to turn into mulch, but he got Aspelund to bring in about two tons of fresh wood chips to put on the garden to be tilled into the ground. His thinking was that they would decay and be free fertilizer. My thinking is that in the decaying process they would rob nitrogen from the soil and require lots of fertilizer that he can't afford, but he went ahead and did it anyway. His tomatoes are wilted with no blooms, the corn is yellow and not growing, squash plants are stagnant with little growth. The sandy loam soil is like concrete now. Guess I was right, and I'm not paying today's prices for some nitrogen fertilizer to bail him out. This is probably going to haunt that 1/4 acre garden for many years to come. [/QUOTE]
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