Plant guide:🍓 Strawberries
Back to Plant Clinic
⚠ Minor
🩺
Nutrients

Yellowing Leaves — Nitrogen Deficiency in Strawberries

Commonly affects: Fragaria × ananassa (Strawberry)

Older leaves turn pale yellow-green uniformly while new growth stays a healthier colour, and overall plant vigour and fruit production decline.

Potential Causes

  1. 1Insufficient nitrogen in the soil
  2. 2Heavy rain leaching nutrients from the root zone
  3. 3Depleted soil that hasn't been fed since planting

Solution Steps

  1. 1Apply a balanced fertiliser in early spring as growth resumes
  2. 2Side-dress with compost after the main fruiting flush
  3. 3Avoid excessive nitrogen during flowering, since too much can favour leaf growth over fruit

Prevention Tip

Feed strawberries lightly but consistently — heavy nitrogen, especially during flowering, can actually reduce fruit production in favour of leafy growth.

More Nutrient Deficiencies Problems

See all →
Phosphorus Deficiency — Purple-Tinted Leaves & Stunted Growth — monstera plant care

Phosphorus Deficiency — Purple-Tinted Leaves & Stunted Growth

Zinc Deficiency — Small, Distorted New Leaves & Shortened Internodes — monstera plant care

Zinc Deficiency — Small, Distorted New Leaves & Shortened Internodes

Manganese Deficiency — Young Leaf Interveinal Chlorosis & Pale New Growth — monstera plant care

Manganese Deficiency — Young Leaf Interveinal Chlorosis & Pale New Growth

Boron Deficiency — Deformed New Growth & Hollow Petioles — monstera plant care

Boron Deficiency — Deformed New Growth & Hollow Petioles

See how growers dealt with this →
Track this problem in your grow diary