August 17, 2019 · 3:46 pm
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Poor Plants

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When I went outside to check on the tomatoes and weed a bit in our flower planters, I noticed that everything suddenly looked really wilted.

I got my husband and we turned on each section of the irrigation system, and went around to all the planters, making sure all was getting water. Some weren’t getting anything at all, others were getting too much – it varied all over the place. Once we got the back finished – with a lot of the things you see in the picture above, we switched to the front, where it’s mainly actual hoses and controls.

We think we got everything going. We are inside now, drinking ice water and resting. The heat index this afternoon is between 106 and 110. We’ll stay inside until at least dinner time before trying to do anything more out there.

I hope that YOU and your PLANTS are getting enough water today!

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  1. IreneDesign2011's avatar IreneDesign2011
    August 17, 2019 at 3:50 pm

    Linda, something is wrong with your photo here, not possible to see.

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  2. Robin at Haphazard Homemaker's avatar Robin at Haphazard Homemaker
    August 17, 2019 at 9:40 pm

    Glad you got things going again. Luckily we haven’t lost any plants this year. Good thing, because we didn’t plant much.

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    • Linda Lewis's avatar Linda Lewis
      August 18, 2019 at 10:38 am

      Hopefully we caught things quickly enough. It is super hot here, so things croak really fast without daily watering. Fingers crossed. We decided just to wait until later to plant things in the two rebuilt brick planters. I don’t think anything new could survive right now.

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