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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Zucchini problem
  • Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:35:57 -0400


On Jul 30, 2010, at 2:27 PM, cjmaness AT juno.com wrote:

It's not virus. That has been ruled out. This is not the stunting or twisting you get with virus. The plants come up. They sit there and don't grow. Then, the leave start turning a pale yellow and the plant dies. We water. We fertilize. We do all the things we have always done when growing squash, and nothing.
The first time this happened we had just gotten some of the flooding rains and we had a lot of run off from the neighbors wheat field. I just assumed that whatever herbicide he used washed down on us and wasn't to the squashes liking. No big deal, I just replanted. But, it keeps happening. And, I've replanted far enough away from that original spot that the neighbors herbicide couldn't possibly be a factor.
I am growing enough different kinds of squash so I don't think it's a seed related issue. And, some of my seed is leftover from last year, and it did fine then.

Carla, are you by any chance using straw mulch? and if so, is anything else in the same straw, and is it showing any symptoms?

There is an herbicide sometimes used in grains that remains present in the straw and is very long lasting -- I can't think of the name of it right now. I don't know whether they pulled it off the market or not.

The only other thing I can think of, is it possible you've got a huge excess of some nutrient?


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale







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