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Apartment Container gardening
Hello,
I am a resident of South India and I live in an apartment with two balconies, one facing the east and the other facing the west. I have quite a number of plants in my two small balconies. I use plastic containers and water daily in our humid region. I apply organic fertilizer every other week. But my plants rarely produce flowers. Some just wilt and die. Others have large leaves but no flowers. Some have smaller than normal leaves or yellow leaves. I have found that there are numerous tiny snails in the soil. Can anyone please tell me what i am doing wrong? Thank you in advance for your help. YH |
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Apartment Container gardening
Try taking the plants indoor to see if that helps, it may be the
environment rain water ? Find the plants you have and find their individual care needs. It might help to group them to similar care. Each plant has different care needs. Some need to be watered weekly while others need less. Some plants need drainage and too much water will make fungus grow and attract parasites. Go to http://plantcare.com/ and find your plants. There are great tips at http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/ |
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Apartment Container gardening
Hi,
Sounds like you are overwatering most of your plants. Like the previous responder said different types of plants require different watering schedules. Also, different types of pots tend to dry out quicker or slower. Plastic pots tend to hold moisture in longer and your watering every day is causing an overly wet root environment. This would be fine if you were growing something like taro or papyrus. Also different plants require different fertilizer. One of the common mistakes of beginning gardeners is killing the plants with too much love by overwatering and over fertilizing and by lumping all the plants together in regards to care. Layne On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 05:44:06 +0000, yellowhat wrote: Hello, I am a resident of South India and I live in an apartment with two balconies, one facing the east and the other facing the west. I have quite a number of plants in my two small balconies. I use plastic containers and water daily in our humid region. I apply organic fertilizer every other week. But my plants rarely produce flowers. Some just wilt and die. Others have large leaves but no flowers. Some have smaller than normal leaves or yellow leaves. I have found that there are numerous tiny snails in the soil. Can anyone please tell me what i am doing wrong? Thank you in advance for your help. YH |
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