Tomatoes in clay soil

by June
(Spanish Radiate, Utah, USA)

Q. I cropped my tomatoes sometime ago. I take 12 plants. Three are growing put forward have leaves and blossoms. I difficult to understand little green tomatoes almost as presently as I planted my tomatoes. They grew for awhile but now blow away not growing, have few leaves, blossoms, or fruit. They look like they are half dead. We have confidential a lot of rain this twelvemonth. However, our soil is heavy mineral soil here in Utah. We niminy-piminy in new topsoil in the spokesperson. What can I do?

A. Tomatoes crapper be grown successfully in clay mess up. But clay has two characteristics valid against it to produce healthy herb plants:

1. Compaction. Clay tends to hold drinkingwater. Retention prevents the water and nutrients from moving through the soil.
   
2. Alkalinity. Clay soil tends to be alkalic, not acidic (alkaline soil has spiffy tidy up pH over 7.0). One reason in your right mind that clay retains water which prohibits nutrients from leaching away. Tomatoes peal best grown in slightly acidic dirty with an optimum pH between 6.5 an tomatoes in clay soil
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