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HELP! Vegetable plant leaves light green?
I have a major problem where all my vegetables have very light green leaves
to where they are almost yellow. I live in northeastern PA and June was just 30 days of rain and no 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 some 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 plant leaves light green?
Bob Petruska wrote:
I have a major problem where all my vegetables have very light green leaves to where they are almost yellow. I live in northeastern PA and June was just 30 days of rain and no 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 some lime in the early spring. Also the plants are not growing bushy at all the tomatos and peppers are look thin. Any suggestions? Bob, I live west of you and we had the same strange spring weather. I noticed that some of my veggies were looking the way that you described yours and I started watering them with half strength fertilizer (I use 20-27-5) about twice a week about two weeks ago and now they are deep green. The 10-10-10 fertilizer is really a general purpose fertilizer and I would switch to one made specifically for vegetables. Not to rub it in, I picked my first couple of tomatoes yesterday and they were from plants that I started myself. -- Bill R. (Ohio Valley, U.S.A) Digital Camera: HP PhotoSmart 850 For pictures of my garden visit http://members.iglou.com/brosen Remove NO_WEEDS_ in e-mail address to reply by e-mail |
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HELP! Vegetable plant leaves light green?
"Bob Petruska" wrote in message news I have a major problem where all my vegetables have very light green leaves to where they are almost yellow. I live in northeastern PA and June was just 30 days of rain and no 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 some lime in the early spring. Also the plants are not growing bushy at all the tomatos and peppers are look thin. Any suggestions? Nitrogen is rapidly leached out of soils, and the excessive rain you've had has done just that. The solution would be to add in some manure or other high N type of fertilizer. For a quick fix, you can use some of the liquid soluble fertilizers like Peters. If it keeps raining, you may have to keep applying. Sunflower MS 7b |
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