my Tayberry is poorly

[Froglegs]

At first i thought it was the last Frost but that was weeks a go ??? any of you guys know whats up with it?.

[Froglegs]

[Froglegs]

Two more

[Unwashed]

My guess would be weed killer damage.  I can't think that any kind of deficiency would affect it so strongly, though you might try watering it with a dose of epsom salts just in case.  Is it newly planted or well established?

[realfood]

It looks typical of hormone weedkiller damage. Rasps are also particularly susceptible to it.

[Froglegs]

My guess would be weed killer damage.  I can't think that any kind of deficiency would affect it so strongly, though you might try watering it with a dose of epsom salts just in case.  Is it newly planted or well established?

Been in about 4 years now,i did wonder about weedkiller but i don't use the stuff on me plot and the only way it could have got weedkiller on it is for it to be deliberately put on it....could it be spidermite ???

[realfood]

Could the weedkiller been applied to the road edges that I see in your photo? Wind could carry the spray onto your tayberry.
I doubt if it is spidermite.

[Unwashed]

I'm with realfood, it does look typical of hormone weedkiller.  Has some numpty from the parks department been round the allotments spraying?

[Unwashed]

Wasn't there a lab you could send damaged plants to for free testing?

[Froglegs]

Wasn't there a lab you could send damaged plants to for free testing?

Does anybody know the address?

[Unwashed]

Sorry Froggy, I think I was mis-remembering.  The best I could come up with was a reference on the manure matters web site to testing cantaminated manure, but that costs £200 at the Central Science Laboratory.  Though maybe other members have a better suggestion.

If the tayberry right in the middle of your plot or is it by a path where where it could possibly have been sprayed by your grounds maintenance people?  Have you mulched it with anything contaminated?

[Froglegs]

No the poor thing is at the end of me plot but behind a wood and metal fence and we don't have maintenance people so it looks like some bugger as nobbled it.