On Mon, 19 May 2003 10:54:23 -0700, "Valkyrie"
wrote:

I have a few HUGE pots that have dried out pretty bad during a short
absence. My watering person missed them completely. These are HUGE pots and
impossible to lift let alone put in another pot to soak as I did with the
smaller ones. Is there anything I can put in the water to make it soak in
better instead of just flowing over the top and down the sides. I can't get
to the drainage hole so I can't do a soak and drain maneuver that way
either. I tried tilling up the surface soil and that helped a bit but not
very much.

You did the right thing by tilling, but IMHO, need to do it more
deeply than just the surface soil, as the rest has probably become
rather compacted during the waterless period.

Try tilling more deeply, and then set a hose barely trickling into the
plant for a long time. That way it won't "flow over the top and down
the sides".

Keep us posted!



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Polar