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Hi,
I'm very new to gardening, having purchased my first home a few months ago I immediately got the bug and have started planting what seems to me a big array of edible plants.
I bought some hazlenut plants from Focus (to take advantage of them going into administration) and they looked fairly healthy when bought. I planted them with a good mix of compost and soil (which is extremely sandy) to help retain water a bit better than the natural sand on its own.
They've been in the ground around 5-6 weeks now and at about 2 weeks the a few of the leaves started turning brown, and with brown speckles (but not many) on them. I googled it (being my only resource at that time) and came to the conclusion it was leaf scorch, I've since put some slow-release all-purpose plant food in and around the soil of the hazlenuts to help. Although it's helped a bit there still is quite a bit of it. Am i on the right track and should I allow the plant a few more months to see how it progresses? I picked hazlenuts as I heard they were quite hardy.
Thanks
I'm very new to gardening, having purchased my first home a few months ago I immediately got the bug and have started planting what seems to me a big array of edible plants.
I bought some hazlenut plants from Focus (to take advantage of them going into administration) and they looked fairly healthy when bought. I planted them with a good mix of compost and soil (which is extremely sandy) to help retain water a bit better than the natural sand on its own.
They've been in the ground around 5-6 weeks now and at about 2 weeks the a few of the leaves started turning brown, and with brown speckles (but not many) on them. I googled it (being my only resource at that time) and came to the conclusion it was leaf scorch, I've since put some slow-release all-purpose plant food in and around the soil of the hazlenuts to help. Although it's helped a bit there still is quite a bit of it. Am i on the right track and should I allow the plant a few more months to see how it progresses? I picked hazlenuts as I heard they were quite hardy.
Thanks
) Maybe a dose of lime is your real "cure". If you don't want to buy expensive garden lime, try roasting eggshells and grinding them to powder which you then apply to the soil.
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