<x-tad-smaller>Ginda,</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller>I'm a New Englander, and I think I recall hearing about that Coast of Maine stuff advertised on the radio. It's a compost mix isn't it? Made with local organics and shellfish waste etc....</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>[ . . . ]</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller>I think you are right on the money with your virus theory. The Coast of Maine mix could have had a lot of wilt in it. I'd just dump the stuff where it won't be mixed with compost that I'm apt to use for a few years. Or maybe you can distribute it under some rhododendrons...or other woody shrubs.</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller>George Gifford</x-tad-smaller>
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<x-tad-smaller> Subject: [NAFEX] weirdly useless soil</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> From: Ginda Fisher Date: Wed, September 02, 2009 12:29 am</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller>[ . . . ]</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller> this spring, when I bought a big new pot for one more tomato</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> plant, I bought a bag of expensive "Coast of Maine" soil to fill it.</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> I have 4 big pots, each with one tomato plant and some smaller stuff.</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> (3 have basil, 1 has a seedling currant I decided to try to grow out,</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> and one also has an alpine strawberry that came from I know not where,</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> possibly it's a feral seedling that I didn't weed out.) The tomato in</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> the new one looks horrible. It lost all but one or two leaves, and it</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> just a 2.5' stalk. I don't think it ever flowered.</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> I attributed the tomato's failure to viruses and whatnot - it's some</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> random thing advertised as being from Russia, and didn't claim to be</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> resistant to anything. (The 4 tomatoes are each different</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> cultivars.) But I just noticed that the basil in the pot has also</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> failed to grow. Yes, the cold rainy summer wasn't kind to basil, but</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> the basil in the other two pots is 2 feet tall and has gone to seed,</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> and the basil in this pot is only a bit larger than when I planted it.</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> Any theories?</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> I'm also wondering what to do with a giant pot of bad soil. I don't</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> really want to dump it on the mulch pile, as I've started to mine that</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> for loam. I suppose I could dump it next to the mulch pile, where a</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller> pile of dirt won't be an eyesore.</x-tad-smaller>
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