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HELP? Vegetable plants all have light green leaves?
I have a major problem where all my vegetables have very luight green leaves
to where the are almost yellow. I live in northeastern PA and June was just 30 days of rain and now sun so this may be a factor. The veggies that are light green are Tomatos, peppers, beans, cucumbers, onions, cabbage. I use 10-10-10 fertilizer, and Ironite. PA has acid rain so I usually mix in soem lime in the early spring. Also the plants are not growing bushy at all the tomatos and peppers are look thin. Any suggestions? |
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HELP? Vegetable plants all have light green leaves?
Bob Petruska wrote:
I have a major problem where all my vegetables have very luight green leaves to where the are almost yellow. I live in northeastern PA and June was just 30 days of rain and now sun so this may be a factor. The veggies that are light green are Tomatos, peppers, beans, cucumbers, onions, cabbage. I use 10-10-10 fertilizer, and Ironite. PA has acid rain so I usually mix in soem lime in the early spring. Also the plants are not growing bushy at all the tomatos and peppers are look thin. Any suggestions? Check the actual pH. You are describing chlorosis and chlorosis can have a whole host of causes ... including disease, mineral deficiencies (magnesium, manganese or boron) pests (sucking and root insects), soil compaction, overwatering and bad pH. (The insects don't actually cause chlorosis but their damage can mimic it at first glance). Googling for chlorosis led to this link: http://www.treesforyou.org/Planting/.../chlorosis.htm Hope this helps, Bill -- I do not post my address to news groups. |
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HELP? Vegetable plants all have light green leaves?
Bill, thanks for suggestions and link.
I will check the PH again. I'm starting to believe that chlorosis is the problem. From the link you supplied over watering is a main contributor. Again - we had approximately 30 days of water during June in PA without any sun. Lack of iron is also a contributor and I normally till in dry Ironite in the spring and then water with the water soluble form every 2 weeks. I have rasied beds 2" X 12" so drainage is usually not an issue, but the long rains may have just washed away every nutrient in my soil! I just may send my soil for analysis at Penn State U. "Noydb" wrote in message ... Bob Petruska wrote: I have a major problem where all my vegetables have very luight green leaves to where the are almost yellow. I live in northeastern PA and June was just 30 days of rain and now sun so this may be a factor. The veggies that are light green are Tomatos, peppers, beans, cucumbers, onions, cabbage. I use 10-10-10 fertilizer, and Ironite. PA has acid rain so I usually mix in soem lime in the early spring. Also the plants are not growing bushy at all the tomatos and peppers are look thin. Any suggestions? Check the actual pH. You are describing chlorosis and chlorosis can have a whole host of causes ... including disease, mineral deficiencies (magnesium, manganese or boron) pests (sucking and root insects), soil compaction, overwatering and bad pH. (The insects don't actually cause chlorosis but their damage can mimic it at first glance). Googling for chlorosis led to this link: http://www.treesforyou.org/Planting/.../chlorosis.htm Hope this helps, Bill -- I do not post my address to news groups. |
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HELP? Vegetable plants all have light green leaves?
On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 20:33:07 GMT, "Bob Petruska"
wrote: I have a major problem where all my vegetables have very luight green leaves to where the are almost yellow. I live in northeastern PA and June was just 30 days of rain and now sun so this may be a factor. The veggies that are light green are Tomatos, peppers, beans, cucumbers, onions, cabbage. I use 10-10-10 fertilizer, and Ironite. PA has acid rain so I usually mix in soem lime in the early spring. Also the plants are not growing bushy at all the tomatos and peppers are look thin. Any suggestions? We live in north central PA, and the weather during both May and June was just appalling, as you say - almost NO sunshine at all. I've never seen a spring anything like it. My plants are OK, but I believe that's because they were in raised beds - good drainage - and the soil has lots and lots of organic matter.. I don't think they'd be OK if they had been planted directly in the ground, or if they'd been planted directly in our naturally-occurring heavy clay. I really don't have any suggestions except that I'd want to get lots and lots of organic matter into the soil. Your 10-10-10, Ironite, lime regime doesn't get any organic matter in there, AFAIK. You probably can't do this this year, but you could in time for next season. Organic matter: autumn leaves, compost, spent-mushroom soil, aged manure, grass clippings, hay, straw, etc. Pat |
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HELP? Vegetable plants all have light green leaves?
On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 20:42:52 GMT, "Bob Petruska"
wrote: I take pictures of my garden and the last good graden was 1985 when I installed the raised beds and used a sterilized soil of 25% peat, sand, vermiculite, top soil.....things grew gigantic that year! It's been downhill since then when the bacteria and fungus take over. I've done well with the mushroom soil - but this is only my 3rd season living here, so I don't have long experience with it. Contrary to what several people have said about letting it age, I added mushroom soil directly to my raised beds this spring. I was worried about doing this, and didn't really want to but - because neither my husband nor myself is capable of digging in our heavy clay (health problems)- I had very little choice in the matter. It was either fill the raised beds with mushroom soil or don't plant them at all. (This was the first year we've used raised beds.) Some of the raised beds got about 1/2 mushroom soil, and some got 100% mushroom soil. So far everything is doing very well indeed - this is squash, zucchini, chard, peppers, tomatoes, lettuces, various Asian greens, various herbs, and cucumbers. (I never got the pole beans planted - I hurt my back and haven't been able to work in the garden for the last month.) The only problem we're having is that the mushroom soil drains fast, and needs daily watering in the heat we've been having for the last two weeks. This may partly be because we're using tires also - they're small compared to most raised beds, and have black solar-heat-collecting sides. When we're finished setting up the tires (raised beds) and filling them (we're only about 60% done now), then we'll buy hoses with emitters, and put one emitter in each tire. Then watering will just involve turning on the tap. That will be good. Meanwhile, my husband is going out to water with the hose daily - a nuisance, to say the least. I do know that - in various locations - I've always concentrated (above all else) on getting organic matter into the soil, and I've always had very good results. So I think it works. Pat |
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