Anytime Ronni,
I know how frustrating it can be and then you post a question and nobody responds!!
It's hard enough to go to the efforts you do and then no results.... I have been there.
I still say to myself, what the heck are you doing, I could have other things done, and cleaned and not spending so much time in the garden and oh, to have something turn out is an unmeasurable pleasure.
You know you sound like you're doing everything right, amending the soil sounds right on the money....
The type of fertilizer I'm not firmiliar with but numbers seem to be right. (I personally use Shultz 10-60-10, high middle number for flowering and root growth, because I use compost and cowmanuer in the dirt. So I don't need high nitrogen numbers.)
Or a high acid fertilizer just for tomatoes.
The
flower drop on your veggies:
Blossoms will also dry up and fall off if
plants do not receive enough water, if they're getting excessive nitrogen and receive too much shade. So, that maybe a bit of the problem for that. The shade..........
Plus, if you've put all those ingredients into your dirt, you may not need to put such a high number in on your fertilizer also....
Because you've got the better stuff in your dirt....
I'm not a big bean gardener, although I did grow them one year, and I had a riot doing so. I had green, yellow, and purple.... They were huge, it was the year I companion planted and I really believe I should live on a farm because I tried to shove too much into too small of an area.
but the beans were fun, and carrots are too. But you do need deep penitration for the carrots. Maybe those baby carrots just pick them early.
You could grow peas and lettuce later as it cools, they like cool and a bit of shade. Maybe someone with a wider vegetable background can help you with shade and or fast
growing veg's.
I grow tomatoes, 3 kinds of
peppers, zucchini, yellow squash, acorn, butternut, pumpkins, lettuce, (leaf and romaine) and sunflowers..... I love radishes, sliced paper thin and salt....
I have been trying something from QVC called "Spray~n~Grow" it's a micronutrient for the
plant, not a fertilizer, they say to think of it as a vitamin for your
plant. I have just ordered my second bottle of it.
I got my veggie garden in late, (I'm still planting) but have been spraying them in their pots with this and now that I finally have most of them in the ground and they are adapting very well and are filling out within days of planting. Before it would be a while before you'd see growth??? I have only found good results with this, and it's more for the
flowers, not the green growth....
I'm not sure, this year I added a bit of peatmoss in the dirt to give it a bit more acidity that the tomato
plants like and good water retentions as long as it stays moist.
Anyone else out there with some thoughts on what Ronni can put into the ground?????????
Hope some of this has helped....
Hang in there Ronni!!
Weezie