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Rivka wrote:
"Could excess
nutrients be the problem? Compost is very good; but straight compost may be too
much of a good thing. The plant may be putting all that energy into huge amounts
of vegetative growth, and not concentrating enough on the
fruit."
That's
certainly a possibility, although last year I put them on the edge of the pile
and trained the vines to grow inward, so they weren't getting the full effect of
the compost. I've tried them before in the garden with no compost and it
didn't work well for me. Couldn't keep up with the weeding and I got a lot
of end rot.
The compost pile is made up mostly of leaves and
brush, some hay, and some grass clippings. Its footprint is about 1000
sqft. and growing. Smells very sweet and if you dig down it's very black
and humus'y looking. Tons of earthworms and grubs, of very large
size. Maybe that's it! I should start raising earthworms, 'cept I
don't know how they taste.
Mark
KS
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