The strawberries have a leaf blight. It’s their second year, they were planted in April 2018. The variety is Albion, from Fedco, an ever bearing variety.<\/p>\n
It’s been a wet spring this year, a lot of rain, which may have encouraged the fungus.<\/p>\n
Sam put down alfalfa pellets, thinking the extra nitrogen might help them.<\/p>\n
Today, I weeded the whole bed. Then I decided to pick off most of the leaves including some of the dead ones on the ground, I didn’t eliminate the blight by any means, but we’ll see if the plants can recover on their own with new growth. They’ll need drip irrigation.<\/p>\n The strawberries have a leaf blight. It’s their second year, they were planted in April 2018. The variety is Albion, from Fedco, an ever bearing variety. It’s been a wet spring this year, a lot of rain, which may have encouraged the fungus. Sam put down alfalfa pellets, thinking the extra nitrogen might help them.… Continue reading Strawberry story<\/span> ![](\"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_7480.jpg\")