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Old June 6, 2017   #69
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I knew there was something else wrong with my gardens too. In my case, RKN takes longer than Fusarium wilt does to mess up a plant. Fusarium wilt is why we are getting tell-tale signs so early in the season.
Thanks for sharing the experience of the challenges in your plot; they appear to exactly mirror mine . . . with a possible couple of additions here, including alkaline, black clay that locks up nutrients. I'll keep adding the (almost) two compost piles cooked down a year, plus seek out more horse manure and maybe mushroom compost and try to germinate the Tagetes lucida seeds on hand.

Cutworms and weevils—devastating in prior years—nearly no-showed this season. The destroyers shifted from the very visible to, this year, the microscopic/invisible, root-knot nematodes and, I guess, Fusarium.

Seeing that others experience extreme challenges helps keep a realistic perspective, I think.
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