"Spider" wrote in message
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Hi Mike,

It is not a good idea to use waterbutt water for seedlings and young
plants, snipped
I hope you have much more success with your Dahlias. Watering with tepid
tap water would help. Use a clean jug, too, not some festering can that's
been breeding malicious microbes for the past few weeks. Save your
precious
waterbutt water for border plants and acid-lovers.

Spider

Thanks for the advise, I will use tap water.At the present time the Zinnia
plants don't look any worse than how they looked when I made my original
posting so I'm hoping they will pick up.

Mike.