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NEPA roller46@hotmail.com KB3QKV

Our eggplants have a couple of yellowing leaves. Two dead leaves already. Does anyone know what this is? Our cucumbers are almost all dried yellow and browwn leaves. Hope it is not the same thing. They are not very close in the garden. Thanks for the help.

8/6/2008 7:29:45 PM

New Hampshire, USA

You might be over watering them, if that is the case cut down on the water, and get a water meter to tell you when the soil is dry.

8/6/2008 11:16:14 PM

Williamsburg,KY

Could be early blight..are there rings of yellow or the whole leaf yellow?

8/7/2008 9:01:18 AM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

This often occurs if water is allowed to splash up on the plant after contacting the soil. I good mulch helps prevent this.

8/7/2008 2:49:10 PM

NEPA roller46@hotmail.com KB3QKV

It usually starts at an end and eventually the entire leaf is yellow or even brown. Great answers, thanks guys. The help is much appreciated.

8/7/2008 5:14:28 PM

Colorado Springs, CO

RBM,.....Where in the country are you located ? You say this leaf problem starts "at an end". Which end ? There are several likely causes for leaves losing their green. I will attribute most any problem and undesired plant symptom to being sourced in the soil. Others have mentioned over-watering (or possible under-watering), early blight, soil particle splash upon leaves during heavy rain.

Leaves are sustained and nurtured by the Nitrogen content of your host soil and other fertilizer supplements you might add during the season. Too much of anything....is not good. Rather than going overboard with the chemical application of N consider generous supplementation to your soil by scratching in fresh, micro-biologically charged compost from your own garden bin, or fresh wormcastings.

Every undesireable aspect we observe in a plant is likely the result of some type of "stress". Your task is to figure out that strees and eliminate it by trying something different(ly) or changing a certain practice or routine of care. Keep a diary of the weather and certain things you do on that date. Do you have two plants of the same variety, and in same general location in your garden, which are experiencing this same symptom ? Try a control experiment with two differing actions and see which one yields the better improvement to the observed symptom.

If you want the organic answer.....use the fresh composts and scratch them into the top few inches around the plant ! A foliar spray of a kelp (and fish) solution in the evening hours after sunset is another helpful remedy.

8/18/2008 4:07:25 PM