It has been a tough few weeks in my garden. Mostly I haven't found a lot of time to be there. It's funny how gardening has become like exercise -- you forget how much you enjoy it until get a chance to do it again....
Lately my garden has me worried because everything seems to be growing behind schedule (and what else can you expect in a cool summer.) I was particularly worried about my tomatoes above. I thought they caugh tomato blight because the leaves were drooping and yellowing. I started removing damaged leaves and contacted the hotline at Seattle Tilth for confirmation. They surprised me by writing back that they thought it might be an iron deficiency due to an inability to take up water. (The darkened veins and the yellowing from the edge inward led to the diagnosis.) Well, it sounds like a more optimistic prognosis to me!
So today I finally got back into the garden. As they recommended, I added an inch of compost to my pot (mushroom compost was what I had handy.) I sprayed the leaves with kelp water to fertilize. And I added coffee to the soil. Seattle Tilth recommended adding coffee grounds -- but all I had was some unused, unwanted ground coffee. Hopefully, the plants will make a great turn around and I will see no more yellow leaves while the fruit ripens.
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