Question: I don't know if you offer
this service or not, but I have attached a picture of one
of my tomato plants, which obviously has a problem (they
all do).
If you can help:
The one thing we did this year that we haven't done in the
past is add steer manure to the soil (it's mostly clay and
very hard). Could we have added too much? If you can help,
thanks. If not, do you know where I might find help (and
thanks)?
Answer: What you are doing is starving
the plant to death. I will bet
that the steer manure had quite a bit of bedding or undecomposed
organic
material with it and I will also bet that you figured you
didn't have to
add fertilizer since you had added steer manure. The plant
is showing
severe nitrogen deficiency---I am assuming you started with
a healthy
green plant. Once stunted, recovery is slow. I would start
the process
by adding 5 pounds of slow-release fertilizer such as 19-5-9
per 100
square feet of planting area and working it into the soil.
If possible,
I would try to find a healthy green tomato to replace the
stunted one
with. Good luck.
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