Container garden [update]

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Not much going on this week. Been down near freezing at night this week so I have been covering my tomato and pepper plants every night with pails I have on hand.

I have two viola plants in flower pails from last year that appeared to be taking a downhill turn. Other viola plants are doing fine but those two. They were bushed out quite a bit and looked droopy and wilted. Gave them spring ferlizerBig Grin a short while ago when I done transplanting. I also keep them watered.

Soooo, I figured I would kill or cure the problem with what I did to them. Took my big metal snips and trimmed them back to just a couple inches in length. Thought that would put the plants energy back to the primary source of growth. I did not unbind the roots very well last year when I transplanted them from their purchase container. Thinking about doing the same to those two plants I did with the other viola plant I re potted. Remove the plant from the container by tipping the pail and removing the potting mix down to the root system unbinding the roots from the original purchase container mix and then re potting.

The other viola plant I took down to the bare roots I mentioned in a previous post appears to be doing just fine. Has not died yet.Cheers

I think I was a little early putting the seeds in for the melons, cukes and squashes. Nothing shows in another week or so when it warms up I will re seed again.  Soil temp was fine when I first seeded but spring temps are up and down. No big loss if the original seeding does not show. Long growing season down here.

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Avatar JAP69 -
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Failed to mention I have not seen any critter diggings in my ground boxes since I screened them over.

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