Segment 4 of S4E17 Garden questions answered Mid June - The Wisconsin Vegetable Gardener radio show

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In segment four Joey and Holly answer garden question.

Plants are dying
Q: My question is around mulching with pine needles and how my plants are currently doing. For reference I am zone 5 in Appleton, WI. Last year we planted our garden over memorial day weekend and about a week or two later I decided to cover half the garden with pine needles for mulch. It seemed to work great and there weren’t any issues.

This year I planted the garden again over memorial day only this time I applied the pine needle mulch right away. My concern is all of our plants seem to have gone from a nice green color to a yellow green color and some have completely died off. Some of the plants were started from seed by myself and then hardened for 2 weeks prior to planting. Other plants were bought at a local garden store as well. Now all of the plants were nice and green at the time of planting but since have gone to the yellow green color. Even the store bought plants seem to have gone to this yellow color as well.

My question is: Is it possible that the pine needle mulch is affecting the plants? Is it reflecting too much sun/heat while the plants are young?

Some other notes around the garden this year is that we got quite a few inches of rain since I planted these two and a half weeks ago. I walked through the garden and the soil was wet but not soaked. We have also had some 90 degree days as well since then. Is it possible they are getting burned out that way? Lastly we had some fresh cow manure added to the garden this year. Could that be affecting this as well?
A: Your mulch is fine. It is likely the fresh manure you added to your soil. Fresh manure is high in nitrogen and burns your plants. It is likely you cannot save these plants, but watering heavily can help some of the burn. You can also mix in some plant based compost as well. There are other ways of working it out of the soil it will take some time only use well composted manure in the garden.

Canning with city water
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