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Hi all,
Recent bought a bag of all purpose compost from Asda, with the view to filling a new 3 tier planter with strawberry plants. Over the last 2 weeks after showing signs of initial growth, the plants have all died back. The leaves started by going dark at the edges. I haven't watered them for a while as the compost has felt damp to the touch. The compost has delevoped a white "mould" for want of a better description, and the plants now seem to have clumps of this mould at the bottoms of the leaf stems.
The planter has been moved to/from the conservatory and lounge, in trying to avoid really cold overnight temperatures.
I opened the bag that's been kept in the garage outside today, with the view to using it to cover some potatoes I'm planting and the contents of the top of the bag is also coated in a fine layer of this white mould. As a result I decided against using the rest of the bag.
Have I done something wrong with the strawberry plants?
Do you think they can be rescued?
Is the bag of compost at fault? should I jetteson the rest of the bag?
enclosed at pics of the affected plants... The last pic (207) shows a plant that as far as I can see doesn't have any mould on it. Only other thing - when planting the strawberries, I got some free fertilizer, which I put reasonable generously round the roots - should I have avoided doing this and just mixed it with the compost?
Sorry - lots of questions - any comments most appreciated.
BarleyMo
Recent bought a bag of all purpose compost from Asda, with the view to filling a new 3 tier planter with strawberry plants. Over the last 2 weeks after showing signs of initial growth, the plants have all died back. The leaves started by going dark at the edges. I haven't watered them for a while as the compost has felt damp to the touch. The compost has delevoped a white "mould" for want of a better description, and the plants now seem to have clumps of this mould at the bottoms of the leaf stems.
The planter has been moved to/from the conservatory and lounge, in trying to avoid really cold overnight temperatures.
I opened the bag that's been kept in the garage outside today, with the view to using it to cover some potatoes I'm planting and the contents of the top of the bag is also coated in a fine layer of this white mould. As a result I decided against using the rest of the bag.
Have I done something wrong with the strawberry plants?
Do you think they can be rescued?
Is the bag of compost at fault? should I jetteson the rest of the bag?
enclosed at pics of the affected plants... The last pic (207) shows a plant that as far as I can see doesn't have any mould on it. Only other thing - when planting the strawberries, I got some free fertilizer, which I put reasonable generously round the roots - should I have avoided doing this and just mixed it with the compost?
Sorry - lots of questions - any comments most appreciated.
BarleyMo
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