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Produce => Pests & Diseases => Topic started by: dewisfamily on May 23, 2009, 11:34:02

Title: yellow crops ??
Post by: dewisfamily on May 23, 2009, 11:34:02

this is my 1st year with an allotment,i have planted broad beans,peas and sweet corn these now look very yellow in colour why is this?

Title: Re: yellow crops ??
Post by: saddad on May 23, 2009, 13:03:28

Welcome to A4A... most likely the wind we had chilling them if they weren't fully hardened off when you put them out...  :)

After that residual herbicides? Poor soil (not enough nitrogen) but my money is on the wind...

Title: Re: yellow crops ??
Post by: Digeroo on May 23, 2009, 13:44:31

I have some french beans that had gone very yellow.  Had them cloched up so thought they had been cooked.  I am interested in your lack of nitrogen suggestion becuase there was some fresh manure on the site. 

Much against my organic principle I gave them some Miracle Grow and that seems to have perked them up. 

Title: Re: yellow crops ??
Post by: manicscousers on May 23, 2009, 16:21:47

some of our peas are looking yellowy so we've watered them all with seaweed feed  ;D

Title: Re: yellow crops ??
Post by: Tee Gee on May 23, 2009, 19:22:53

I find over watering and or bad drainage can also cause these symptoms!