okay thanks everyone, i have a much better idea of what i need to do now. i put up ads "looking for aged manure" and i will maybe visit a few neighbors here and see if they have any aged manure lying around too.
I do have a compost heap that i have started but i started it just before winter and its very small haha. I have a lot of chicken poop from the winter though that i will be shoveling onto a nice big compost pile once the weather warms up. Going to have about 50 chickens this year so that should give me a steady supply.
those ones were only burned a tiny bit, but the others were bad enough that the entire leaves fell off, the baby leaves that is, not like normal baby leaves that fall off, these ones fell off long before the first set of true leaves came in
If you get chance of any affordable grit dig this into the borders to break up the clay too.,some plants grow well in clay soils maybe worth checking out.
it's not really clay its just very black, muddy soil, it gets pretty hard when it's dry though and very muddy when wet, like in spring now if i walk in the garden i will easily sink ankle deep and not be able to get my shoe back
Those look more to me as if they've been nibbled - something's been nibbling around the edges, and then there's something been getting between the layers of the leaf and eating the inside - possibly one of the leaf miners - they're are quite a few types.
Maybe you're bringing in some tiny pests along with the soil?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
i don't know what you mean about them being nibbled, if open the bigger picture it doesn't look that way. as for them being leggy, i know but it can't really be helped, i only have that one south facing window
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okay thanks everyone, i have a much better idea of what i need to do now. i put up ads "looking for aged manure" and i will maybe visit a few neighbors here and see if they have any aged manure lying around too.
I do have a compost heap that i have started but i started it just before winter and its very small haha. I have a lot of chicken poop from the winter though that i will be shoveling onto a nice big compost pile once the weather warms up. Going to have about 50 chickens this year so that should give me a steady supply.
Thanks for all the help guys
oh wait..i took a pic of some more seedlings that are looking a bit burnt..let me post it hang on
those ones were only burned a tiny bit, but the others were bad enough that the entire leaves fell off, the baby leaves that is, not like normal baby leaves that fall off, these ones fell off long before the first set of true leaves came in
If you get chance of any affordable grit dig this into the borders to break up the clay too.,some plants grow well in clay soils maybe worth checking out.
it's not really clay its just very black, muddy soil, it gets pretty hard when it's dry though and very muddy when wet, like in spring now if i walk in the garden i will easily sink ankle deep and not be able to get my shoe back
Those look more to me as if they've been nibbled - something's been nibbling around the edges, and then there's something been getting between the layers of the leaf and eating the inside - possibly one of the leaf miners - they're are quite a few types.
Maybe you're bringing in some tiny pests along with the soil?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Also those seedlings are far too long and leggy - they're not getting enough light. Squash-type seedlings should look like this
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
i don't know what you mean about them being nibbled, if open the bigger picture it doesn't look that way. as for them being leggy, i know but it can't really be helped, i only have that one south facing window