From: T@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 7/24/19 4:37 AM, songbird wrote:   
   > T wrote:   
   >> On 7/23/19 6:53 AM, songbird wrote:   
   >>> that may be too often, maybe twice a week   
   >>> would be enough or even once a week (depending   
   >>> upon how well the soil there holds the moisture).   
   >>   
   >> We have 4 to 6% humidity and adiabatic drying winds.   
   >> I have tested it out.  If I don't water every other day,   
   >> things start to badly wilt on me and I get blossom   
   >> rot even on my cherry tomatoes.   
   >>   
   >> Blossom rot on peppers and eggplant is pathetic looking!   
   >   
   >    does your soil contain any clay?  usually such poor   
   > water retention would be attributable to not having   
   > clay.  also the general condition of your plantings is   
   > that they are in smaller excavated spaces so that is   
   > likely a big part of your wilting.  the root systems   
   > of larger plants in normal garden soil will be about   
   > the same size as the plant mass above the ground...   
   > (just an FYI :) )...   
   >   
   >    anything you can do to block those winds will also   
   > help (as long as they do not block all the light).   
   >   
   >   
   >    songbird   
   >   
      
   Our soil is pretty much decomposed sandstone.  It is   
   part of an old ancient lake bed.  It is mostly round rocks.   
      
   I have found my ground pots work best if I hack them down   
   to over 18" deep and about that much wide too.  It is no easy   
   task.  Some of those rocks are pretty big.   
      
   Smaller ground pots grow smaller plants.   Trial and error   
      
   Got YUGE peppers growing this year!  Well, except for   
   one ground pot that I seriously need to dig out next   
   year.  Got one pepper that is about 8" long.  Last   
   year's best was about 5" long.   
      
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