Friday, June 20, 2008

I am a bad plant mom!

I came home from work today and found my red pepper plant in a PITIFUL state.  Totally wilted from the hot sun.  See?  Is this not sad?

I dutifully water my plants every morning, but the last few evenings we've had some much needed rain showers. I was going to water my plants anyway, but I was getting some 'shrooms growing in my containers. So, fearful of rootrot, I backed off the watering a bit.  

Apparently I backed off a wee bit too far.

I just gave the plant a generous dousing of water. I'm hoping it will properly revive. I'd hate to damage the peppers currently growing.  Even the mutant-looking one. He's a bit of a Quasimoto.


2 comments:

Jannie Funster said...

Are the plants getting enough drainage?

Sometimes even that doesn't work, as I've never been able to keep a Boston fern or a geranium alive.

Rachel said...

It's hard to say if some of my plants are getting enough drainage. I bought some plastic pots because I heard that they can be better in texas because you you don't have the evaporation through the clay.

The pots I bought had these great drainage trays at the bottom, but I didnt' notice that there were no drainage holes. Who makes a pot without drainage holes?! I ended up drilling some, but I don't know if they're enough.

Next year...more drainage holes and some stones at the bottom of the pot.