Learning how to water plants to increase growth in pots, container or garden - especially how to water roots and tubers. Specialities: root growth or tuber growth of lawns, fuchsias, geraniums, dahlias and begonias.

8 July 2010

Out With the Old

roots of stunted tomato plantCouldn't stand looking at stunted tomato plant any longer. Hoofed it out and replaced with one of side-shoot cuttings taken from same plant (removed before problem occurred). As you can see, roots look O.K .- Not fantastic, but O.K (i.e. white, not brown, with some growth and thickening).

Problem must be either weedkiller or a virus. By placing cutting in old compost, should tell us whether compost is suspect (planted the other of the two cuttings in new compost).

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