I had a friend who pulled up about a square meter of his lawn so he could
plant 4 tomato plants. They kept dying, despite his best efforts, even
though the grass around that area was fine.

He also had 3 cats, and I asked him where they did their business... he
groaned, and gave up trying to get those tomatoes to grow anymore, it was a
losing battle.

Any cats in your yard?

8-)


"John Ladasky" sagely wrote in
oups.com:


Mr. Bill wrote:

[snip]

Just an opinion but it sounds as though the underlying soil is, for
lack of a better term "poisoned". I don't mean there is a poison in
the soil, just that there is something in it that was bad enough to
keep your plants from growing. Could be a fungus or salts or
nematodes or something of that nature.

I've thought about this possibility. If it is true, I'm surprised
that the effect is so local. I'm also surprised that it didn't affect
the grass that was growing there two years ago.

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