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Plant Nutrition

Articles tagged Vegetables. All plant nutrition

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Lettuce leaves on a living plant with dry, brown, crisp edges and green centres.

Fertiliser burn: how to spot it and fix it

Plant Nutrition
Brown, crisp leaf edges and a plant wilting in wet soil a few days after feeding point to fertiliser burn: salts pulling water out of the roots. How to tell it from heat scorch, waterlogging, salty water and potassium deficiency, how to flush it out of beds and pots, and how to feed so it does not happen again.