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Your soil should never be bare. If there aren't any plants growing you should have it covered in mulch. French vineyards are a different topic because they grow, purposefully, in bad soil. That helps control yields, maintains stress, and concentrate flavors. Their soil is basicly gravel in...

If you have the room, might as well try to root some of what you trim off. Put them over a heat mat and you should have hood results.

  Think of all the free nitrogen.

  If I recall correctly, official temps are always taken at something like four feet above ground level in the shade.  So if the official temp is 100 degrees, your plants, at ground level above gravel, are experiencing temps higher than that.   I've been in my attic at 140...it's like being...

Looks like herbicide damage to me.  I used horse manure on my tomatoes one year and the residual 2,4D caused exactly that kind of damage.  

  That's a common misconception.  Only elemental sulfur will raise soil ph to any meaningful degree.  While I'm sure some products with sulfates in them will lower ph, it's not because of the sulfates.   Once you add elemental sulfur to the soil, it goes through some chemical reactions to turn...

Dude, you are officially my new favorite person.  That is friggin awesome.   But I bet those black pipes get HOTTTTTT.  Do you happen to know what the water temp is when you first start watering?

Sucks man. Sorry to hear it. Don't throw them out. Some of those plants will live. Big time set back but a plant's desire to grow is insanely strong.

I have not listened to the podcast, but I have researched compost tea, including Elaine's methods, and she does a great job.  I'm always amazed at how many people I see doing compost teas wrong.  They literally are flooding the system with sugars which creates a bacteria imbalance.  Don't forget...

Given that ph uses a logarithmic scale with base 10, a ph of 9 is increabibly high compared to 6.5 to 6.8. We're talking over 150 times the number of free H ions at a ph of 6.8.

Don't mulch it. You won't get rid of poison ivy by by covering it. It stores up too much energy in the roots and will spread under the mulch before reappearing everywhere. I've only found two ways of handling PI. Triclopyr and pulling it. Probably too late in the year to spray Triclopyr as...

Nice and flat too. Gonna be a good little garden.

Wow, lots of hate here.  Class A bio-solids are perfectly safe when compared to the vast majority of other organic ferts.   Surprised no one has brought up prions yet.  I thought all good hippies knew about that one.

Could also be that your white hab seeds carried the damping off pathogen. Not unheard of for seed stock to be infected. It's a hard disease to fight once it's in your mix, so it is key to eliminate the pathogen before sowing. My methods of combating it would get me attacked by a certain...

Damping off. Past the point of no return. Start over with new mix.

  I'd kill for any kind of well at my property.  To get a well with decent production costs $12,000 up to $18,000 - with no guarantee you will hit water at all.  You have to drill through 100s of ft of granite rock and then possibly have to hydro-frack.  That just isn't in the cards for my...

For a little backstory - Atlanta has some of the highest water rates in the country.  We also have hot summers and can easily go a month with no rain some years.  We are almost always under some kind of drought advisory restricting our outdoor use of water.  While vegetable gardens are exempt...

If damping off is already present in your trays, and you'd prefer to save whats left rather than start over, I'd personally go straight to captan fungicide ASAP.  The disease can come from any number of strains so there is no guarantee captan will kill it.  It wont save the plants which are...

It would fit on my lot...diagonal...with my house removed. But it COULD happen.

Blitz, got the seeds about a week ago. We just got a new USPS carrier and have had tons of misdelivered mail. I think thats why they may have been late. I'm out of town right now, so no pics unfortunately, but they are in some potting mix under my lights. Manys thanks once again.