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Plants for Clay Soils in Central Texas
Plants for Clay Soils If you have been gardening in clay soil for very long you have probably had your fair share of failures. It is hard to find lists of plants that will thrive in heavy soil, as no one really wants to stick their neck out with recommendations in case it doesn’t work. Of course, there are many variables that need to be considered, and growing conditions are never identical, so please consider this a list of “plants to try” for clay soils. Clay soils lack two things: air and organic matter. A coarse compost, or even pine bark mulch is an important amendment to clay soils because [...]
Why are My Tomatoes Not Ripening?
Why Aren’t My Tomatoes Ripening? It’s June, and some of you have been wondering why your tomatoes have continued to remain green and are failing to ripen. The short answer is TEMPERATURE. The optimum temperature for tomatoes to ripen is 70° to 75°F. If you were a bit late getting your tomatoes planted and/or the temperature got above 85°-90°F early this year, the ripening process slows or even stops. At these high temperatures the pigments lycopene and carotene, which are responsible for giving the fruit the red or orange appearance, cannot be produced. If this is the case, the fruit can remain in the green state for quite [...]
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