Vegetable garden not growing

[Anonymous]

I planted tomatoes, peppers and an okra plant about 2.5 weeks ago in my vegetable garden. None of the plants seem to be doing anything- either growing or dying. I’m watering them and there is plenty of sun. Any ideas of what could be going on? They don’t look sick but definitely are not flourishing (no bright green leaves).

[Anonymous]

Did you amend the soil with compost? What fertilizer did you use? Plants typically take a few weeks to establish once they are in the ground.
Okra loves hot muggy weather so it will start to grow soon.

[Anonymous]

How much/often are you watering? How did you prepare the soil?

Tomatoes are heavy feeders so they need a lot of compost and often fertilizer. Mine do really well on Neptune's Harvest (the fish/seaweed blend). But if they're not growing at all it's probably not about fertilizer and instead about soil/water.

[Anonymous]

Wow, I could have written this post!! The ONLY veggies that are growing are Sugar Snap Peas and Nasturnium. Tomatoes, peppers, squash, beets, cilantro NOT growing at all!! Everything started from seed. I'm going to do a soil test today to see what nutrients may be missing. I added a soil conditioner when I planted everything but garden not flourishing.

I'm hoping after the rain the next 2 days, I will see some progress. If not, I will replant everything from seedlings. Very disappointed!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I could have written this post!! The ONLY veggies that are growing are Sugar Snap Peas and Nasturnium. Tomatoes, peppers, squash, beets, cilantro NOT growing at all!! Everything started from seed. I'm going to do a soil test today to see what nutrients may be missing. I added a soil conditioner when I planted everything but garden not flourishing.

I'm hoping after the rain the next 2 days, I will see some progress. If not, I will replant everything from seedlings. Very disappointed!

I'm an experienced gardener and my own garden feels stunted this year.

[Anonymous]

My peas and squash are growing some but not my peppers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I could have written this post!! The ONLY veggies that are growing are Sugar Snap Peas and Nasturnium. Tomatoes, peppers, squash, beets, cilantro NOT growing at all!! Everything started from seed. I'm going to do a soil test today to see what nutrients may be missing. I added a soil conditioner when I planted everything but garden not flourishing.

I'm hoping after the rain the next 2 days, I will see some progress. If not, I will replant everything from seedlings. Very disappointed!

Starting from seed inside without a greenhouse is hard. Plants get stunted early, and/or they experience transplant shock and never really recover. It's hard to tell until you get them in the ground and they just don't grow well. Some plants do fine with it and some just don't. I just buy tomato plants because I don't have the right set up to start them from seed.

[Anonymous]

It’s been an unusually cool spring. Plants will start to grow now that it’s getting hot.

[Anonymous]

I agree the weather is playing a roll. I usually have a ton of bolted spring vegetables by now and thriving summer crops; but this year the spring vegetables are still going strong and more robust than I've ever pulled off before (lettuce is forming heads instead of staying cut and come again until bolting), but the summer transplants seem to be "waiting." Healthy and alive, but waiting their turn.

Even my cilantro hasn't bolted yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I could have written this post!! The ONLY veggies that are growing are Sugar Snap Peas and Nasturnium. Tomatoes, peppers, squash, beets, cilantro NOT growing at all!! Everything started from seed. I'm going to do a soil test today to see what nutrients may be missing. I added a soil conditioner when I planted everything but garden not flourishing.

I'm hoping after the rain the next 2 days, I will see some progress. If not, I will replant everything from seedlings. Very disappointed!

How do you do a soil test?
I added garden soil from a store a year or two ago but I definitely dont do much to keep it rich or add nutrients. Ironically I have a compost bin next to it but haven’t taken out the bottom dirt- maybe I’ll add that.

[Anonymous]

My tomatoes, squash and cucumber are growing but I think my peppers got a little frostbitten and are stunted. If they don't show movement in the next week or so I'm going to replace them with new plants. I have lots of compost, am making a point to water frequently, and will add the seaweed fertilizer into the mix once I get more flowers.

However - I bought 8 strawberry plants and got only two fruit so far, total. Plants look great, just stingy as heck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I could have written this post!! The ONLY veggies that are growing are Sugar Snap Peas and Nasturnium. Tomatoes, peppers, squash, beets, cilantro NOT growing at all!! Everything started from seed. I'm going to do a soil test today to see what nutrients may be missing. I added a soil conditioner when I planted everything but garden not flourishing.

I'm hoping after the rain the next 2 days, I will see some progress. If not, I will replant everything from seedlings. Very disappointed!

How do you do a soil test?
I added garden soil from a store a year or two ago but I definitely dont do much to keep it rich or add nutrients. Ironically I have a compost bin next to it but haven’t taken out the bottom dirt- maybe I’ll add that.

Yeah, going forward you will want to dig in a few bags of LeafGro every spring before planting. For now, you can just top dress with a few bags of leaf gro. Just like it was mulch. It will help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I could have written this post!! The ONLY veggies that are growing are Sugar Snap Peas and Nasturnium. Tomatoes, peppers, squash, beets, cilantro NOT growing at all!! Everything started from seed. I'm going to do a soil test today to see what nutrients may be missing. I added a soil conditioner when I planted everything but garden not flourishing.

I'm hoping after the rain the next 2 days, I will see some progress. If not, I will replant everything from seedlings. Very disappointed!

How do you do a soil test?
I added garden soil from a store a year or two ago but I definitely dont do much to keep it rich or add nutrients. Ironically I have a compost bin next to it but haven’t taken out the bottom dirt- maybe I’ll add that.

Yeah, going forward you will want to dig in a few bags of LeafGro every spring before planting. For now, you can just top dress with a few bags of leaf gro. Just like it was mulch. It will help.

Great suggestion about LeafGro (I already have 2 bags). For the soil test, they have kits at HD and/or Lowe's (I imagine Ace has them too). I'm hoping it can tell me something on the spot and I don't have to mail the sample to a lab.

[Anonymous]

The test you mail out will give you the best results.

[Anonymous]

Every few years we add manure or some kind of soil conditioner or fresh soil. We hadn't done it in a few years and did this year and it helped a lot. Also, add fertilizer when you plant - pellets or the stake kind and make sure to fertilize and water regularly.

I like leafgro a lot but manure seems better.