https://blogs.lotterypost.com/jap69/2017/10/container-garden-a-little-whining.htm JAP69's Blog: Container garden [ a little whining] en-us Lottery Post RSS Generator https://blogs.lotterypost.com/jap69/2017/10/container-garden-a-little-whining.htm#c178557 https://blogs.lotterypost.com/jap69/2017/10/container-garden-a-little-whining.htm#c178557 Thu, 12 Oct 2017 00:03:01 GMT JAP69 Pansies do not do well in hot temps 80 degrees and above. It has been in the eighties the past few days. Tomorrow something like 85 degrees.<br />Pansies also need a good compost which they do not have in the hanging pots.<br />Mushroom compost is top listing on the buy mix.

]]> JAP69 https://blogs.lotterypost.com/jap69/2017/10/container-garden-a-little-whining.htm https://blogs.lotterypost.com/jap69/2017/10/container-garden-a-little-whining.htm Wed, 11 Oct 2017 20:40:29 GMT JAP69 Seen a caterpillar on the a cuke plant. Picked him off and gave him the sole of a size ten boot. One of the flower plants look sick. Flopped over and looks in distress. Tomato plants look like the fungus is back.

One thing about container gardening I only have one or two containers containing the same type of plant. Quite a loss ratio when you lose the plant in a container. The growing season is only so long even in the south with a spring and fall garden. Get wicked hot for vegetables in July and August and cold temps in mid December to mid February.

You lose the season when you lose a plant variety.

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