Welcome to Gaia! ::

neonascence

Back to Guilds

Musings on organic gardening, frugal living, the environment, self-sufficiency and whatever else strikes our fancy. 

Tags: gardening, environment, organic, permaculture, green 

Reply Farm & Garden
Helping Your Plants Beat the Heat Goto Page: [] [<] 1 2

Quick Reply

Enter both words below, separated by a space:

Can't read the text? Click here

Submit

Sizzle?
  -.-
  Not so much
View Results

PiercedPixie2
Crew

PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:09 pm


sunsetsmile
Poor marigolds, they must be terribly hot, they are such tough plants!

If they are in pots, what kind of pots are they in? Dark plastic pots will cook anything.

Double-potting is a good way to keep things in pots looking good in the heat. You put the plant in a clay pot, then place the clay pot in a larger pot, with peat moss, pine needles, anything that will insulate, between the pots. Lighter color pots are better, of course, and it's still best if the outside pot has good drainage holes.

Good luck! Don't give up!


Its in a clay pot, yes.
I will check my building for another larger pot..
And we have TONS of pine needles, that is not a problem ;3
PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:16 pm


fluffycowz
Artistic Mystic
I gathered up pine needles and coverd the ground around my watermelons, eggplants, and my mom's banana tree xd I plan to do the zucchinis today ^^ My mom laughed at me because I looked silly hunched over raking up bundles of pine needles out of our front yard with my bare hands xd I just feel bad that the poor pine tree is dying; that's where all the pine needles came from.

eek Maybe that's why my marigold died.. The only recycled plastic pot that I could find was dark green... That, and I didn't water it for a few days while I was in the hospital with my mom stressed

I would water the tree for about an hour, it save my 15 year old pine tree in my front yard from dieing .


The mainly sad thing about the tree is that it's in my neighbor's yard so I have no claim for the nuturing of it emo Its branches hang over into my yard, which is why a lot of its needles fall there.

o0 Mystic Mama 0o
Crew

Rainbow Nerd

Reply
Farm & Garden

Goto Page: [] [<] 1 2
 
Manage Your Items
Other Stuff
Get GCash
Offers
Get Items
More Items
Where Everyone Hangs Out
Other Community Areas
Virtual Spaces
Fun Stuff
Gaia's Games
Mini-Games
Play with GCash
Play with Platinum