Cabagges and kale outer leaves discoloured

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Cabagges and kale outer leaves discoloured
« on: June 18, 2019, 16:24 »
Afternoon :)

Last aug I took on a very big and massively overgrown allotment with precisely zero knowledge of growing vegetables. Having dug said plot into beds I'm now staring at a full bed of alarmingly strange coloured cabbages and kale. The bed is 6x6m and intially I planted 22 sprouting broccoli in the bed, all of which are fine and nice and green. I then planted lots of kale, all of which were transplanted from a poly tunnel and they drooped through shock but perked up. Unfortunately though quite a few of the outer leaves started turning yellow or purple. Some leaves died and fell off. The rest of the yellow  I removed.  Not to be disheartened (I assumed my lack of knowledge would lead to some losses) I then transplanted from the tunnel some red cabagges and some Savoy cabbages. They are doing the same thing. It's soil with a fair amount of clay and it's been raining solid for weeks. Could this have caused it? The bed was prepared with a quite a load of extremely well rotted donkey manure.

A couple of pics (ignore the weeds :)).

https://photos.app.goo.gl/fhcCZXCNzuzuavNQ7

https://photos.app.goo.gl/8g8nz297JqtKP8tn6

https://photos.app.goo.gl/J6Pfq124Zc669mdW7

Don't be gentle I can take it if they are gonna die :) I said day 1 that the first year is a learning year so I've still got 6 weeks as an excuse.
Any advice would be greatfully received.
Ta
Simon

« Last Edit: June 18, 2019, 16:26 by simon hughes »

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Re: Cabagges and kale outer leaves discoloured
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2019, 17:48 »
They'll be fine, it just looks like transplant shock as long as the new leaves look ok, all is well :) Pull off the old discoloured leaves for the compost bin.



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