Pipework Installed But Plants Are Struggling
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The new pipework has been installed, but the plants are struggling. I don’t know if it’s from the early rains we had that turned into flooding, or the current heat.
Either way, they’re not looking that great right now. And the workmen didn’t even move the container plants. The plants they replanted in the ground don’t look bad at all.
So maybe it’s a variety of factors.
The PVC pipes are laid and everything in the yard looks normal again. The bricks just beyond my patio have been put back into place. And the roots were torn out so that now the bricks are level.
They took up part of the sidewalk that separates my yard from Ron and Pat’s. Then laid more pipe there because they said the downspout of that gutter brought water straight to my yard.
And then there’s the fact that my yard slopes down and my apartment sits lower than the other apartments.
John said he saw the pipe that was torn out and it was filled with roots. Roots are a real problem wherever there are so many trees.
Gardening Woes:
I’m not particularly overjoyed with my flowers this year. Starting with all the floods, the plants just didn’t seem to have a chance. So the blooms are few and far between.
I keep referring to my old apartment photos where I had that big patio and many plants and a spigot in which to water them.
It sure was easier then. I just picked up my hose and turned on the attached sprayer and watered my plants.
Here it isn’t so easy. The watering is made easier with the sprayer I use, but it’s still heavy to tote from plant to plant.
Outdoor plants have always been a source of joy for me in the summer months. But this year has been different for various reasons. It surprises me that it is the end of June and my plants have just about given up. Sigh.
It is what it is.
What I’m Reading:
I am reading “All Your Perfects” by Colleen Hoover.
The story begins when Quinn comes home a day earlier than planned to surprise her fiance Ethan.
When she gets to his apartment, the doorman isn’t as chummy with her, which is odd. She soon finds out why.
Quinn and Graham’s perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage. The memories, mistakes, and secrets that they’ve built up over the years are now tearing them apart.
The one thing that could save them might also be the very thing that pushes their marriage beyond the point of repair.
All Your Perfects is a profound novel about a damaged couple whose potential future hinges on promises made in the past. But can a resounding love with a perfect beginning survive a lifetime between two imperfect people?
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The high heat spells we’ve been having here in Michigan, then the frequent rains, now the b’zillion mosquitoes that attack you as soon as you open a door have kept me from doing much of my usual planting and gardening tasks this year. It’s really been frustrating. Nothing looks like I want it to, but what can a person do?? Focus elsewhere, I guess, but I miss being out there digging in the dirt.
This is going to sound ridiculous but think about it. Your lovely plants may be sensing your unhappiness and angst. Things will settle down, including your mind, and hopefully you’ll feel much better and carry over to your plants.
One day at a time!
I live in Arizona where it’s been 110+ every day for the last couple of weeks and looks like it’s continuing into next week. No matter how much I have tried watering and shading plants when this kind of heat comes, they wilt and die. So I’ve cheated on my front patio and purchased metal flowers and filled my pots with them for some cheeriness. They don’t mind the heat and don’t even need watering and I can just enjoy their lovely colors.
I fertilize once a week with miracle grow. It helps a lot. Try it.
I also fertilize every time I water with Miracle Grow.
My tomato and green pepper plants don’t like the extreme heat and strong winds we’ve been having. I can protect them from the rain by getting them inside my garage or underneath the gazebo roof if the rain isn’t going to be a typhoon outside, but I can’t protect them from the heat and high humidity. I check them for water daily and it’s not lack of water or too much water that is wilting them, it’s the extreme weather. I’ve moved them out of the intense sunshine under the gazebo roof and they start to perk up about an hour before dark. It’s been very hard this year on my plants, and everything is blooming way too early because of the strange weather patterns this year. Extreme heat, extreme humidity, extreme rain followed by 2 weeks of little showers but not enough to wash your hands in, and then another downpour of more than an inch in less than 2 hours starting at midnight last night. I’ve got a fungus on my front lawn for the first time in my nearly 10 years of living here, and never had fungus on the lawn at my prior home where I lived 24 years! It’s the weather. It’s not only driving people nuts, it’s driving our poor plants nuts too.
I totally agree! Not much we can do about weather.
I do hope the management has apologized to you – I recall at the time they indicated that you had somehow caused the flooding. Those tree roots can be so damaging! I had issues in my 1920s home in NJ w tree roots blocking my natural gas lines and a big part of my front yard had to be dug up! Have you ever tried using a flexible hose? They weigh almost nothing and can be stored in a small bag or inside an extra flower pot, etc. I have switched out my heavy rubber garden hoses and I will never go back! Don’t be fooled by their size (they expand) – a 50′ hose looks quite tiny!
I can’t change out the hose that is already there because it doesn’t belong to me. And I added my swirly lightweight hose to the spigot for two years. But it wasn’t long enough by itself. The spigot fixture is way down there pretty far.
Container plants in general always need more food than a plant in the ground. Since you had such floods early in the season, whatever food was in the container soil was likely washed away. You probably need to do a few good feedings on your containers.
They are fed with fertilizer every time I water them.
I guess some followers missed that post.
Can you put the sprayer on a plant dolly that has wheels so it will roll? Don’t remember exactly where you use it but maybe this would help.
I have a plant dolly in the outdoor closet somewhere. I’ll have to look for it. Good idea!