Dying plants.

Yep. Hanging baskets very sorry for themselves and herbs in pots are frizzling up.

Have moved my pots into the shade. Even with water twice a day it's too hot.

When compost dries out it is very hard to re wet as any water you pour on runs right through the pot. Stand the pot in a bucket of water which allows it to be completely submerged and keep the whole rootball under water until all the bubbles come to the surface (ideally overnight). Another trick is to add a tiny bit of washing up liquid to the water as this acts as a wetting solution.

My hanging baskets are sorry for themselves too Maw they have been watered pretty much as usual but still look quite sad compared with normal. My fuchsias seem to be doing okay (touch wood) but they are planted in the ground rather than in pots.

Also I wonder is anyone else being plagued with earwigs?

Our fuchsias in the ground are doing well,our geraniums in window box, and urn have blooms fit to burst.

Whilst in our towns the hanging baskets have not only doubled in size this past couple of hot weeks but are an absolute delightful mass of colour ......... really very beautiful.
A mixture of petunias,begonias,geraniums,and fuchsias............perhaps I should ask for their secrets in keeping them so pristine,fresh with the colours so deeply rich and vibrant.

Panache if it’s the same system as our town a council (?) water wagon goes round in the early morning and waters them. Some, are on an automatic system but you can’t see the little tubes......until you accidentally stand under one that’s become disconnected and you get watered instead.

I think that DH may have over-watered some of my shrubs in pots - they are standing in large saucers and there is water in the saucers.
One looked rather sad, but perhaps it is just not absorbing the water.

Watering in the morning is better and never water when the sun is on them; if you do then avoid the leaves, just pour the water on the soil.

Thanks ladies. I've done all of the above. I think I will have to give them the usual speech: you either shape up or ship out. No messing. Still, it's a good excuse to go to the garden centre, again.

Dispite the weather all our baskets are doing ok

Just wondering if its because DGS no longer requires nappies.

Grandma used up her spares by placing them in the bottom of all her baskets before adding the compost.

Our hanging baskets are looking like they normally do at the end of August so feeding regularly to try and give them some oomph. I've also had to move a large fuchsia into the shade.

Talking of watering, DD and I always chuckle when we remember a grumpy old gardener we knew criticising her for watering her pots in the morning despite the fact she had a full time job to dash off to. He would chant, 'Water by night - penetration. Water by morn - evaporation.'

She snapped back at him, 'No bloody water - dehydration!'

I think I will have to give them the usual speech: you either shape up or ship out.
Stand right over them when you tell them.
All that carbon dioxide might do them some good


I've never heard that merlotgran - and DH always says it's better to water in the morning (or both if needs be)
Grumpy old gardener - does DH fit that description - sometimes, yes

www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/vgen/water-plants-vegetable-garden.htm
Your DD's grumpy old gardener doesn't know everything, merlot

Cherrytree love the tip about using nappies, thank you

Petra they look fine from the pic on here, but obviously aren’t.
My hanging baskets and pots are doing very well, but we do water them every evening.
The fuschia haven’t flowered, that’s the only thing, as yet, so I may have later flowering ones or just duds.
The pelagoniums are the best they have ever been, althought I have used Miracle Gro liquid feed,which makes a big difference.

I recall Alan Titchmarsh saying that if you tip an inch of water into a pot it will only sink down nine inches. Either sink the pot in water or top water again once the first drink had been absorbed to have any chance of it getting down to the roots.

Your fuschias look like mine petra - this year they have far more flowers than leaves.
Some are newly planted in the garden and do need watering as they droop fairly quickly. The more established ones are fine. The ones in the pots don't seem to have grown much larger, but are flowering profusely.

Thanks for enlightening me Oldmeg.........I have seen the wagons in the mornings very occasionally, but with all the cut backs elsewhere I honestly expected our town`s florals to suffer............I will be wary of getting drenched by standing too near though!!!

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I have 75 pots in my garden to keep watered! I am saving bath and washing up water for the purpose. I was only thinking the other day that my fuschias have been better than usual this year. They were bought as cheap small ones in trays of 6 at Homebase.
I have to agree that yours do look a bit sorry for themselves, what a pity. The group of pots is pretty nevertheless. I like a profusion.

I forgot to add that I always use saucers under my pots to catch any excess which drains through, helps to make full use of the water.

nanak54 I am told tena lady work's just as well

I water every night when sun goes down and 3very morning before it comes up I don’t have a hose so it’s lots of buckets and watering cans bu5 they re all still alive and doing well and none lost not even the hanging pots

Are yours hardy bedding fuschias petra?
If so, they could grow tall and lankier than the ones intended for pots.

We have both kinds and some of the ones in pots look more like shysal's whereas the ones in a hedge look similar to yours and they grow quite tall.

jalima
Pass can't remember. The funny ( well not so funny) is that these red ones are doing fine. All treated the same.