Thursday, May 17, 2012

Wind and new transplants.

Happens every *$_^%$;_%;^  year! As soon as we get the first 1,000 transplants in........here comes the never ending ferocious wind. You feel beat up just being out there all day, and so do the plants. In this kind of windy hot weather, you will need to water daily if your plants look stressed at all. Tomorrow we may have the same weather, so avoid installing transplants again until the wind settles down a little. Some  types of plants are more tolerant than others, and some will recover better than others. 'Temporary wilting' is okay.......but once the plant starts to dry and 'permanant wilting' sets in, there is no saving. If I had thousands of coffee cans I'd be out there offering my plant babies protection. If your plants get really beat up, give them a week to recover. If no sign of  perking up, replace them. Fortunately we have a new shed that we were able to bring our flats of veggie transplants into for protection today! Yahoo.

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