Strawberry wilt.

[SimpleSimon]

I created a new strawberry bed this year with 18 plants. They went into a raised bed that had a lot of manure in it last year. It was partially rotted this time last year and I grew squash in it that did great. Within weeks of the the strawberry plants going in they started to look bleached at the leaf edges. Which then went brown and crumbled. Fastfwd a month or so and all 18 plants looks really ropey. They are no bigger than the day I bought them. They are wilting and have dropped leaves. They are producing new leaves but they will go brown and fall off. Google suggests it looks exactly like Verticillium wilt. There is a bed next to it with the same compost/maure mix that has peas in it that are doing great. Though apparently that's as peas are resistant to it.

Any ideas what to do? Sounds hard to treat so I guess I'm just gonna have to cut my losses on the strawberry plants and grow something in there that's resistant. Any ideas? Squash clearly are but they got way too big last year and were a pain. And I don't need any more peas. Ideally I'd love to get rid of it but doesn't sound like it's going to work?

Ta Simon

[burnie]

First question would be where did the manure come from, how old is it.

[stevejelf]

Possibly Strawberry mite


https://www.kenmuir.co.uk/image/data...ITE%20_58_.pdf

[burnie]

Possibly Strawberry mite


https://www.kenmuir.co.uk/image/data...ITE%20_58_.pdf

I was thinking that too, I had one of my pot grown plants suffer last year.

[Plot70]

Do make sure they are watered. The weather has been very dry lately.

[SimpleSimon]

Do make sure they are watered. The weather has been very dry lately.

Aye they have been watered and the bed is still moist to stick your finger in.

The manure is only a year old. The other bed with the same stuff has peas, lettuce and rocket. All doing fine. Last year both had winter squash that grew like wildfire and produce a huge amount of squash.

[MelanieSW]

A couple of years ago I lost half a strawberry bed with the plants looking unhealthy and eventually pretty much dying.

Can't quite remember but the roots definitely didn't look well, I think they'd turned black.

At first thought it was a fungus, but actually I think it happened when I was trying to do the plants a favour and "refresh" them by taking them out and replanting on top of a bit of new compost and quite a bit of manure (out of a bag so not fresh). The direct contact with the manure probably burned the roots.

There were no further problems after removal of the affected plants and it didn't spread.

[SimpleSimon]

Some pics attached.

[stevejelf]

I found this site interesting https://strawberryplants.org/diseases-fungi-molds/