My garden flourished beautifully last year. We didn't mulch or fertilize because we only had time to kill grass and create garden space. I guess we tilled the dead grass into the ground. We had large plants and more food than we knew what to do with.
This year my garden is pathetic. Before planting I dug in nutrimulch turkey manure, which around here is supposed to be the best. We had a last spring and early frost (like Sept 1st, but it hasn't frozen since. The nights get down to about 40 though). I've had hardly any tomatoes and all my plants have some strange illness or another. The aspen trees next door started getting sick first with brown crispy, shriveling leaves (bottom pic). Then the aspen sprouts in my yard got sick (upper right), then the tomatoes (middle left). Can a tomato plant possibly get the same illness as an aspen or is it something else? My parsnips look similar to the tomatoes. And on the side of my house the morning glory has turned white and then shrivels (bottom right--I'm glad it's dying but it's killing the squash and asparagus). The asparagus it turning brown as if it's dry(top left with morning glory climbing), but it gets plenty of water. My willow tree on the side also has leaves like the aspen.
Any words of wisdom for my black thumb?
This year my garden is pathetic. Before planting I dug in nutrimulch turkey manure, which around here is supposed to be the best. We had a last spring and early frost (like Sept 1st, but it hasn't frozen since. The nights get down to about 40 though). I've had hardly any tomatoes and all my plants have some strange illness or another. The aspen trees next door started getting sick first with brown crispy, shriveling leaves (bottom pic). Then the aspen sprouts in my yard got sick (upper right), then the tomatoes (middle left). Can a tomato plant possibly get the same illness as an aspen or is it something else? My parsnips look similar to the tomatoes. And on the side of my house the morning glory has turned white and then shrivels (bottom right--I'm glad it's dying but it's killing the squash and asparagus). The asparagus it turning brown as if it's dry(top left with morning glory climbing), but it gets plenty of water. My willow tree on the side also has leaves like the aspen.
Any words of wisdom for my black thumb?