For some reason I have really had a hard time with my squash and zucchinis. I've grown my own plants from seed and as well as bought transplants from the home depot.
The plants would start off strong when I put them in the garden beds, then I noticed after a bit that the bottom leaves would start to turn yellow. I didn't panic too much, I've read that transplants can go through a bit of shock, as well as the bottom leaves of zucchinis are know to die off anyways. As this continued it would go up through the other leaves. I've even cut them off thinking that would help.. but .. NO CHANCE.
I have used two different type of soils thinking that that also could help. Later on after my 3rd.. er 4th.. plant, I was told.. it was a lack of Nitrogen. WHAT? How could this be. I use compost, even manure compost, there should be plenty of nitrogen in that. But I did notice that my compost, that was purchased from a store, is not necessarily completed compost, and could have been stealing the availability of nitrogen.
My choice for the lacking nitrogen was: Alaska Fish Fertilizer. It was about $7 from the Home Depot. It was a 16oz bottle, directions 2 tbps to a gallon of water.
I could tell within a couple days, the plants sparked up and even all the yellowing vanished. Now they are doing well.
I'm adding this fertilizer along with a bone meal about every 2 or 3 weeks. We will see if my plants thrive.
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