Planted 20 tomatoes that I grew from seed, about a foot tall. Found this soil on my property that looked real good and dark. The woman that grew up here told me there had been a wood pile there for 50 yrs. Real good dark soil, lots of tomatoes, hell yeah!
Wrong, a walnut tree had been growing there for years and contaminated the soil with a chemical called "juglong". It prevents tomatoe plants from recieving moisture from the soil, and they all but one died. Nurtureing him,lol.
So I sit there thinking I started out with 30 plants,gave 10 away and then mine croak on me. Aint got $hit. Then I hear a voice.
My neighbor flaged me down and gave me a dozen healthy tomatoe plants. Been a good day.