From: T@invalid.invalid   
      
   Hi All,   
      
   I have given up on trying to grow garlic.  I keep getting   
   perfectly formed plants in miniature.   
      
   So this year I planted a pepper plant (from the nursery)   
   in my garlic bed.  It is perfectly healthy.  But it   
   has only grown three inches in two months.   
   No flowers and no peppers either.  It should   
   be two or more feet tall by now.  Exactly thing that   
   happened to my garlic.   
      
   Peppers grow fine elsewhere in my garden.   
      
   Is it possible that the soil in my garlic bed, which   
   feels great to the touch, has some kind of growth   
   inhibitor in it?   
      
   It has had lots of chicken poo, bone meal, worm   
   casings, water, etc.  This soil got really   
   pampered trying to get my garlic to grow.  Nothing   
   worked.  Now the same thing on my pepper plant!   
      
   Purselane loves my garlic path though.   
      
   Is so should I dig out all the soil and replace it?   
      
   Yours in confusion,   
   -T   
      
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