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Thu, May 1, 14 at 22:33
| My Rainbow Chard was doing great up until this week. In just a few days it's gone from perky and green to wilting leaves with white/black coloration and dead spots. Is this a fungus? Any advice on treating it, and, is it too late to save the plants? |
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| Ok, let us see: -- we don't know your zone, more than that the temperature patter. ---Have you fertilized them with water soluble fertilizer ? Without having the above info, just by looking at the picture, I think of sunburn or fertilizer burn. |
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- Posted by Slimy_Okra 2b (My Page) on Fri, May 2, 14 at 11:55
| Just heavy leaf miner damage. Cut off the affected leaves and trash them. Cover the plants with a light floating row cover and secure it tightly to the ground so the leaf miner adults can't fly in. Leaf miner infestations tend to be worst in late spring and early summer. |
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| Zone 9b Fertilized the raised bed with EB Stone Sure Start 4-6-2 They seem "soggy" to the touch, not hard. |
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| As was said, leafminers. Do as the other poster suggested. |
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| BTW, did you know that the red russian kale is a superb self-sower? Let them go to seed and you won't have to buy seed again, most likely. |
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