Your soil choice just might be too dense if not broken down...heavy, not enough air for
your plants. A fresh bed i like to add some peat. Allot of it.
Next year, especially in the Fall, cover it, as we call 'putting to bed'...suffocates weeds,
lets good stuff breed, worms love it, etc.
In the next Spring add some peat for loft, some fert raked in a week or two ahead of
planting...double dig. Loosens the lower level soil. Don't stomp it or compact it.
All your good stuff this year will break down and will not need much fert. (tomatoTone)
next year...15 yrs now i just add a cup or two to my same size beds and rake in.
A new bed with dense soil, fert in the planting hole, will concentrate the root mass in a
clump...so the roots don't search and spread for food and health. They suffocate.
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