Any way you can post those here--the link and site are cumbersome to move through.

will do when I get back in a few hours....sorry, was trying to save page loading time for people on the forum. Thnx.

Per my original post above, here are the pics of my plants. They are producing (except the squash keep failing to produce male/female blossoms at the same time) but look ailing. I pull off the bottom paler leaves but the process continues (yellowing at the bottom).

Cuke leaves raised bed:
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Same cuke - the upper leaves are greener but diseased?
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Zucchini pale/yellowing leaves:
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Yellow squash pale/yellow leaves
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Beefmaster pale leaves (I know he's leggy, gets 5+ hrs sun per day in its spot)
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Mortgage Lifter bottom leaves (this plant is over 7' tall but the bottom keeps getting like this). He's very green above, lives near the water spigot and downspout but in a sunny spot.

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Do these problems look like under-fertilization, powdery mildew, too much water, other? Seems lots of the leaves of my veggies are pale. I am in central NC which is very humid and hot, and it WAS very very rainy until mid-June. Help is appreciated.

I would say, from looking at them, too much water, and maybe a bit nitrogen deficient? I will defer to more experienced opinions here :D

The bleached areas are too little moisture. Stick your finger in the soil/potting mix to know for certain.

Plus the potted plants can suffer from overheated roots which then don't work at optimum levels. Looks the same as short of water because it is.

As near as I can tell, you have large plants in small pots.

Then too, potted plants need fertilizer on a regular basis because it washes out with every watering.

Hi,
I don't know what you are fertilizing with, but I wonder if using seaweed emulsion and/or maybe fish emulsion would be beneficial to your plants (unless they are already fertilized). Once plants are already compromised and you want to save them, it could be worth a little extra time/$ to pet them. I overfertilized my Better Boy and Beefsteak tomatoes in the spring, but I didn't the Big Boy and German Johnson. I took cuttings from the Better Boys/Beefsteaks and I'm rooting them in pots in the shade. I think I'll have some late tomatoes on those rooted vines.
Good luck!
zinia

My first thought was that you need to get your soil tested but if those are container plants then I'd guess too much plant, too little pot.

I personally wouldn't grow a squash in anything smaller than a half-barrel. And then only one plant rather than a full hill.

Dry leaf edges are likely to be too little water (or too uneven water), and/or too much heat on the roots. Mulch helps with both when the plants are in the ground.

Thanks everyone. I have been fertilizing with Tomato Tone and Garden Tone. I started out foliar feeding with seaweed emulsion, but as they got bigger, I stopped. This week I got some Pennington Tomato & Vegetable Plant Food (9-12-12 regardless of what the lady at the nursery said about no N >5) and gave them each a dose and watered (it's granular), but since we had just about 15 minutes of rain in the past 2 weeks, I am not sure how much has been absorbed. We're expecting rain Saturday night and Sunday.

The pots are about 4 gallon size with one plant per pot. Guess I'll try feeding more, perhaps with liquid fertilizer, and insulating containers since I am afraid to transplant them into larger containers now.

Thanks again for everyone's input!

Diane

what size pots do you have your squash plants in? What is your feeding and watering schedule for squash and tomatoes? Also what is the N-P-K of the fertilizer?

new guy, the squash in the pics are in (I think) 4 gallon containers. I fed them Tomato Tone and Garden Tone when planted and epsom salts in the planting holes for the tomatoes (these particular ones are in-ground). Tomato Tone is I believe 3-4-6? This past week I used Pennington Tomato and Veg Fertilizer which is 9-12-12. I have not fertilized the in-ground tomatoes frequently, just original planting, one side dressing of Tomato Tone after about a month, and then Pennington this week. I water as needed since we had tons of rain until June 16 and nothing really needed watering (it needed drying!). Since then I have watered the squash regularly so they don't dry out. I pay a lot of attention to them because I haven't had but one yellow squash from them due to the blossoms (male/female) not blooming in conjunction with each other.

No one has specifically mentioned my cukes (the first photos). The upper leaves looked great today (very green and healthy). It seems to be a pattern for most of my plants that the lower leaves are the pale/yellow/ailing looking ones.

I gave them foliar seaweed emulsion this evening and actuallly miracle grow liquid fertilizer at half strength. We'll see what happens, but advice still welcome!