Planet Veggie Garden

What happens to plants when they are deficient in minerals? Oftentimes, as in humans, they exhibit the symptoms commonly associated with disease. They do not do well…stunted growth, yellowing leaves, curling leaves, blossom end rot…just to name a few. Amending the soil and rotating crops can help prevent deficiencies but what happens when your plants start to exhibit yellowing leaves for instance.

Here is a great pictorial online source aptly called The Diagnosis of Mineral Deficiencies in Plants

I’m using this to figure out why my romano bean plants are yellow when everything else (peas, lettuce, cilantro, dill and Italian parsley) are all doing well.

Check it out.

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