By "bald" I mean that my sugar snap pea plants are almost 3 feet tall, healthy and strong, yet are sporting not one single flower. Some initial research suggests this might be due to a potassium deficiency in the soil, so I'm contemplating ways to get a quick jolt of potassium into the soil (unless that's a bad idea....anyone out there have thoughts on this?).
But there are some beautiful things going on in the garden. Chiefly, our very first strawberry harvest. They weren't the sweetest berries we've ever tasted, but they were red, they were ripe, and we grew them from some spindly little seedlings we bought at the nursery last year. As my great-aunt Minnie loved to say, God is good.
An old country term in the south descriptive of barren soil is "too poor to grow peas."
Posted by: chaussures nike shox TL1 | May 21, 2012 at 05:39 AM
One of my husband's recent stories when we were discussing whether I put too much fertilizer on the okra was about the year his father planted field peas to feed hogs and they were all vines and no peas -- too much nitrogen-rich fertilizer.
An old country term in the south descriptive of barren soil is "too poor to grow peas."
If the plants look good, you might just wait.... Potassium deficiencies usually manifest as leaf discoloring.
Posted by: Nell Jean | June 06, 2011 at 05:17 PM