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My aunt bought the same soil as you and she is having the same issue! All of her tomatoes are doing this.
Good on that company for reaching out and wanting to figure it out and make it right!
Big hugs! You’re doing a great job turning this into both a learning and teaching opportunity, but I do know it’s pretty disappointing too. Thank you for sharing! And high five to Soil 3! Them contacting you really shows their integrity!
I am finding that the soil I buy has a higher wood chip content. I bought a bag of potting soil and it was about 80% sawdust. I am not used to getting splinters when I repot house plants.
Thank God I had a supply of potting soil from last year. I've only had to purchase 3 bags of potting soil and the 3 bags that I purchased have been absolutely terrible. They're chunky, it was like they rushed to put it in a bag and shove it out there, and it looked entirely molded and smelled like pig feces. The containers I have used it in, either nothing has came up or has came up looking healthy and then just died…randomly. Fortunately, it has only been a few. I'm not used to this. I usually have great success in gardening and for the most part, I'm doing pretty well, but I feel pushed behind because I do a lot of container gardening as well as my 8 garden plots. The bags of soil I got were Schultz Moisture Plus and 1 bag of Miracle Gro because there were no other options. There is a potting soil shortage. The 3 bags I had left over from last season were Master Garden and that is the best potting soil out there, but it is not available now. I mention it in my latest video's on my channel.
Thanks for sharing this. I had problems with a popular bagged organic soil I used in the top layer of my new raised garden beds where I planted 80% of my vegetables. The bottom layers were yard scraps, burned wood, and compost from my own property. On the recommendation of another viewer I put gypsum around all the plants, and watered thoroughly and deeply for a couple weeks. I've also given them all fish emulsion and kelp nearly every week. My tomatoes turned around after two weeks, but my peppers are still puny, It also affected my Armenian cucumbers and summer squash which are both now growing well a month later. Unfortunately I used the same soil in the large containers where I planted my sunflower seeds from Sunflower Steve's fundraiser, and they are all of 4 inches tall after several long weeks of ideal weather and conditions. I'm out of gypsum, but I will be searching out some more to see if it won't help these highly favored plants survive and thrive.
Try EM1 (effective microorganism 1) from Teragaix. It is used in remediation of soils. It's inexpensive and easy to use and will improve you microbiome. It's a culture of bacteria, bacteriacides and other organisms that clean up the soil.
Lactobacillus or LAB is one of the best things you can do for your soil bacteria and ridiculously easy to make. Chris Trump has a video demonstrating the process of LAB. All you do is rinse uncooked rice, and store in a jar with a breathable lid. After about a day you add 10 parts milk to 1 part fermented rice wash water. 3-5 days later you remove the top "cheese" and the liquid is your lab. You then dilute it down to a 1:1000 concentration.
Sounds like Grazon Herbicide. I think it’s in the wheat that the cows eat and so gets digested and ends up in the composted manure
Bless you huny xx
Are you gonna go watch the new Elvis movie?
I can hear the disappointment and hurt in your voice and in your expressions. So sorry you and others are going through this.
One thing that worked for me with a bad soil was to heat it by steaming it not a big amount so was able to do it in batches that killed most of life in the soil then I added good stuff back into it with worms for worm farm worm castings compost tea and other sifted good soil to add back good life to soil and seemed ok and 3 yes later that 50 liter pot I did after normal amend meets and yearly Maintenance grows alot of food just was my trial haven't done since but was good for a bad soil to see if I could fix it it was contaminated soil from some thing just my experience
How about pill bugs to remove toxins?
Hold on placing my tin foil hat on… ok well the food shortage is not accidental if your paying close attention. I wonder if this is even accidental? I personally do not think so. I hope it’s not too serious and this is recoverable.
So sorry that this happened to you! I had the same problem 2 years ago with compost from a local facility. I planted corn in all of my beds and everything planted the following spring was fine. I test everything now because I never want to go through that again!
Test the plants.
thank you for letting us know about contaminated soil.
Make a liquid fertilizer with tomato paste or tomato sauce Deluge with water and feed them with tomato nutrients.Might just need a boost
I am having problem with Kellogg brand
I had contaminated soil, bought in the spring for my last summer season, Australian over here, I left my tomatoes in, gave them a heavy prune. Most did dismally but I did have 7 out of 20 Romas that seemed to fight it off and came back. I’ve saved that seed and pulled the rest in January. The 7 survivor plants are still giving me fruit in our winter (June).
Had problems with bagged soil before. 90% forest product referred to as raised bed soil. Killed all the plants in those beds. Chipper shredded it and composted it with other stuff and it seems ok now. Can’t name the brand cause they’re big.
I'm curiouse because I'm trying to decide where I'm going to start my homesteading journey. Is there a reason you left Arkansas for Carolina? I live in Florida but am considering southern Missouri, but I can't decide.
I am in SC and have also planted directly in Soil3. I am not having any issues, thank goodness.
Two very useful documents about persistent herbicide damage, including which plants are susceptible, how to test, and different possible remediation strategies by cost. Most vegetables are affected but monocots like onions, asparagus, and corn should be unaffected. Unfortunately either contaminated hay or manure from animals fed the hay or even compost made from plants grown in affected soil can spread the contamination, which can persist several years. The second document has strategies for remediation including activated charcoal.
https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/herbicide-carryover
https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/manage-compost-and-soil-contaminated-with-broadleaf-herbicides-in-gardens
The comments made me do a bunch of research into aminopyralid, and I think that's what it is here. Soil3 is a victim as well – the responsibility lies with Dow AgroScience, the distributor of that herbicide. I dug up a 2009 letter they wrote to an affected "gardener enthusiast", and they're definitely not sorry: "In those rare cases where garden plants have been damaged by aminopyralid, the herbicide was introduced through animal manure that should not have been used as a garden fertilizer soil amendment." Distancing, much?
They published a list of plants sensitive to aminopyralid residues:
• Potatoes
• Peas, beans and other legumes
• Carrots and other umbelliferae
• Tomatoes
• Lettuce, spinach and other compositae
• Dahlias
• Some species of roses
I don't know if a link will survive this comment, so will add it as a reply.
Thank you for keeping us posted on the soil. I had some strange issue last year with my garden. My tomatoes and jalapenos didn't grow or produce as well and my okra (planted with fresh seed) had fits germinating. I suspected the soil I used in the beds had some sort of problem. I didn't do any testing and wrote it off to gardening in Texas heat. This year I amended that bed with fresh compost, worm castings and azomite. The tomatoes in the bed have been growing like crazy. Was this a solution? I don't know, but at least I am getting tomatoes this year. I will be interested in hearing if or what the solution is.
In the UK, the issue is caused by aminopyralids, a herbicide used against broadleaf weeds in grass and rape straw. Often comes in compost with manure in it, as said grass is fed to animals, the aminopyralid passes through them and into the manure. Charles Dowding has done a couple of videos on YouTube talking about the problem so you might want to check that out.