Robert Wakefield
@Robertauthor
28 August, 01:49
I'm seeing odd patterns in plant health in the UK, despite being in one of the best fruit and veg growing areas in the country.... my observations:
a) Garden centres are selling compost that appears much lower quality than last year and that doesn't hold water as well, it also has much more perlite/vermiculite (or something else?) in it,
b) We've had MUCH better sun than last year - when I had a bumper crop - but this year both plant chlorophil and produce levels are 50% down. I've been providing plenty of seaweed, tomorite and manure but it's having little effect? Typical summer temps here are 15 to 25 degrees but we've had 25 to 40 this year - so why aren't plants producing?
c) Plants that usually overgrow are even more reduced in size; mint, perpetual sweet peas, raspberries, rhubarb, courgettes,
a) Garden centres are selling compost that appears much lower quality than last year and that doesn't hold water as well, it also has much more perlite/vermiculite (or something else?) in it,
b) We've had MUCH better sun than last year - when I had a bumper crop - but this year both plant chlorophil and produce levels are 50% down. I've been providing plenty of seaweed, tomorite and manure but it's having little effect? Typical summer temps here are 15 to 25 degrees but we've had 25 to 40 this year - so why aren't plants producing?
c) Plants that usually overgrow are even more reduced in size; mint, perpetual sweet peas, raspberries, rhubarb, courgettes,
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I stumbled upon a possible reason and solution... WATER:
d) I think something in compost and fertilisers this year is DE-IONISING the water, much like something in the jab is clotting veins and reducing oxygen circulation?
e) If you think of the soil/compost/water as being the battery that gives growth energy to the plants, this can't happen effectively when the water is de-ionised,
f) A possible solution I saw on a youtube is to wind copper wire around bamboo stakes and into the soil - supposedly copper is good at gathering ions from the air and it feeds down back into the soil,
d) I think something in compost and fertilisers this year is DE-IONISING the water, much like something in the jab is clotting veins and reducing oxygen circulation?
e) If you think of the soil/compost/water as being the battery that gives growth energy to the plants, this can't happen effectively when the water is de-ionised,
f) A possible solution I saw on a youtube is to wind copper wire around bamboo stakes and into the soil - supposedly copper is good at gathering ions from the air and it feeds down back into the soil,
01:50 PM - Aug 28, 2022
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Interesting.
My yield in Texas is lower than 2020. Due to a health incident I had to skip 2021. Little rain in 2022, so I've had to use more irrigation than in 2020.
My yield in Texas is lower than 2020. Due to a health incident I had to skip 2021. Little rain in 2022, so I've had to use more irrigation than in 2020.
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