My question is:
Can high iron content in my well water effect my
plants greatly?? I have a well that runs water to my hose for outside. All my outdoor
plants drink this water.
This is my first '
growing season' at this home, an old farmhouse, and since most the
plants here have only been transplanted here this season also, I wonder about some ill effects I am noticing with the
plants.
Burnt looking and falling leaves is my main concern.
I transplanted most my things in the really early springtime here. I am in
zone 4. All transplants came from a
zone 4 also. I planted according to best planting instructions and even try to put the
plant in the same direction to the sun as the place they came from originally.
I don't know what the problem is. Raspberry canes, black currant bush, red currant bush, all began doing really well. They grew leaves, flourished it seemed, then, just as the 'flowering' began on these bushes, the raspberry canes died completely, and the currant bushes lost leaves, leaves shrivelled or looked burnt, and the berries, although they looked like they were going to be plentiful with the amount of
flowers produced, either dried up or didn't form.
Does anyone have a 'sure' idea, if this is due to iron water (and I mean so much Iron I have to change my water filter on my drinking water EVERY day), or could it be a relapsed problem caused by simple transplanting. I have never had this occur with any other transplantings at other homes b4.
I am thinking it was the iron water.
Anyone's thoughts would be truly appreciated.
Oh, and if you think it is the iron, what do I do to help my
plants? Can I give them some other mineral that will counter act the iron?? Does anyone know??