First of all hi! I'm new here and new to gardening.
Last year i grew a few courgettes and a couple of cucumbers...no problems! I literally chucked them into the ground and enjoyed the produce! This year I took more care, prepared the soil and added manure and all the good things. I planted out my courgettes when they were good sized, healthy plants about 2 weeks ago. Within days they began to turn yellow, there has been no growth. Today I came home and one is dead - upon inspection the stem has been eaten...it's split open and nothing remains at ground level.
I also planted out 3 cucumber plants in a raised bed last weekend, today, one is limp, wilted and - dead!
Planted out Morning Glory, they have all turned yellow, no growth and are going to die!
2 of my tomato plants are getting brown blotches on the leaves and looking very sad!
My garden begins to have the feel of 'The Day after' - can anybody please help?
Everything going yellow!
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there are a number of possibilities.
did the plants come straight out of a warm greenhouse into a cold wet windy garden? they do better if the pots are put out by day and insde at night for a few days to harden them off. even so with cold wet windy weather its possibly still too chilly to plant cucumbers outside.
stem broken at ground level is either something (slug?) has eaten it, something (dog, child, wind?) has snapped it off, or sometimes cucumbers in particular just dseem to shrivel and die for no apparent reason.
get some more plants , boot sales are a good source, and try again, a few slug pellets scattered about would be a good idea, may be best to wait a couple of weeks for the weather to improve for the cucumbers.
where are the tomatoes? its too early for them to be outside.
have you seen the contaminated manure thread? basically some clever sod has developed a herbicide for grassland that remains active for atleast a second growing season, even after the grass has been eaten, gone through a cow , been turned into manure and been used to fertilise the next years crops, fine in theory if the manure is used on grassland but a bit of a disaster if its used on anything else.
did the plants come straight out of a warm greenhouse into a cold wet windy garden? they do better if the pots are put out by day and insde at night for a few days to harden them off. even so with cold wet windy weather its possibly still too chilly to plant cucumbers outside.
stem broken at ground level is either something (slug?) has eaten it, something (dog, child, wind?) has snapped it off, or sometimes cucumbers in particular just dseem to shrivel and die for no apparent reason.
get some more plants , boot sales are a good source, and try again, a few slug pellets scattered about would be a good idea, may be best to wait a couple of weeks for the weather to improve for the cucumbers.
where are the tomatoes? its too early for them to be outside.
have you seen the contaminated manure thread? basically some clever sod has developed a herbicide for grassland that remains active for atleast a second growing season, even after the grass has been eaten, gone through a cow , been turned into manure and been used to fertilise the next years crops, fine in theory if the manure is used on grassland but a bit of a disaster if its used on anything else.
richard p wrote:there are a number of possibilities.
did the plants come straight out of a warm greenhouse into a cold wet windy garden? they do better if the pots are put out by day and insde at night for a few days to harden them off. even so with cold wet windy weather its possibly still too chilly to plant cucumbers outside.
stem broken at ground level is either something (slug?) has eaten it, something (dog, child, wind?) has snapped it off, or sometimes cucumbers in particular just dseem to shrivel and die for no apparent reason.
get some more plants , boot sales are a good source, and try again, a few slug pellets scattered about would be a good idea, may be best to wait a couple of weeks for the weather to improve for the cucumbers.
where are the tomatoes? its too early for them to be outside.
have you seen the contaminated manure thread? basically some clever sod has developed a herbicide for grassland that remains active for atleast a second growing season, even after the grass has been eaten, gone through a cow , been turned into manure and been used to fertilise the next years crops, fine in theory if the manure is used on grassland but a bit of a disaster if its used on anything else.
Hi and thanks for reply!
I did do the 'hardening off' process, but you could well be right - here is still quite cold and very windy.
Tomatoes are outside, but I do have surfeit of them, so still some inside. I don't have a greenhouse as such, just a modified shed with plastic roof.
It's certainly not warm inside that, but of course is more protected.
Do I have time to maybe sow more courgette seeds?
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Eeyore
It sounds like a case of cold - when did you plant out last year?
I think all the plants you mention would be better planted out in Co Durham a gopod month later than you have put them in. That said, there's plenty of time to get more courgettes and cucumbers going to plant out next month.
Best of luck.
Alan
It sounds like a case of cold - when did you plant out last year?
I think all the plants you mention would be better planted out in Co Durham a gopod month later than you have put them in. That said, there's plenty of time to get more courgettes and cucumbers going to plant out next month.
Best of luck.
Alan
Hi eeyore. I'm a bit further south than you and I won't be planting out courgettes, beans, toms or anything tender ( including ornamentals) until first week in June. You have plenty of time to sow more. My courgettes and gherkins have just germinated and are ready for potting on now. Good luck with your next batch. Cheers.
Happy with my lot
Sowing tonight on my bedroom window sill! I already filled the pots and have left them indoors to warm up.
Thanks Elaine, I guess living so far north I need to disregard the instructions. last year it would have maybe been June, and I thought I was late. We live and learn.
Thanks Elaine, I guess living so far north I need to disregard the instructions. last year it would have maybe been June, and I thought I was late. We live and learn.