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Old 03-07-2006, 04:42 PM posted to austin.gardening
Cindy
 
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Default Pepper Plants WIlting During the Day

Steve Wertz wrote, On 7/3/2006 7:53 AM:
On Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:35:54 GMT, Jim Marrs wrote:


I put some pine bark down a few weeks ago.


I'm wondering if I need to water every day it doesn't rain.
Yesterday I didn't have the wiling problem. But it rained in the
morning and wasn't too hot.

-sw


Sometimes when plants get too dry, part of the root system dies. Then
it's easy to OVER-water them and rot the plant.