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Old October 8, 2017   #3013
elight
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Originally Posted by Barb_FL View Post
How is everyone's garden doing?

I came back from Tennessee on 9/30 with 15 healthy plants, needing transplanting ASAP. The seedlings I left with my neighbor were all toast since she left them on the porch (east exposure - worst case for Irma) during the entire storm.

The earliest transplants had to endure 2 huge rain makers over the last week and several days of constant 30-40 MPH winds. I know I will lose quite a few of the 15. Sad that the SunChocola's look the worst, both basically dead. The SunPeach sharing an EB with SC had some life this AM, but drooping by mid-morning.

I am now using shade cloth as some of them can not handle the change in sun intensity, humidity, and heat. It is much different than starting the seeds and growing entirely in Florida.

I have started a few over, but we are still on a boiled water alert so I don't even want to use that water for the plants.
Mine is recovering. The plants in grow bags that I sheltered during the storm are fine, although perhaps a little behind due to the continued high heat. The ones in the ground took a huge beating (due to being on lean-and-lower strings that got twisted around one another) but have come back from the dead.

Biggest problem is that it seems that mt herbicide issues from the spring were not a result of the spraying prior to my lawn re-sod, but probably from bad pine bark mulch that I use in some of my potting mixes. I had some left over that I'm still using and those plants are showing the same symptoms. The plants in potting mix without that mulch are all totally fine. Pretty annoying to lose most of two growing seasons over this.

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