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Posted by trina26 maryland (My Page) on Wed, May 25, 05 at 11:42
| Help!! It rained so much the other day that my petunias were flooded. I have them in huge utopia urns on my balcony. There was about 2inches of standing water in them. I couldn't lift them to pour out the excess so I got a turkey baster and got most of it out that way. I know that sounds a little wacky but I didn't know what else to do! Do you think they will be ok. It's been mostly cloudy and rainy here for the past few days, with no sun to dry them out some |
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RE: my flowers were flooded
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| Since you found standing water in those urns and knowing the weather forecast for our weather is for on and off rain until the weekend, I might be inclined to scoop them out and put them in a temporary pot in dry soil under a table or something that can keep them out of the rain for a bit. Petunias rot way too easily, where the bottom leaves will start to yellow and the stems can eventually dampen off. :-( Then consider doing something to help your urns drain. Did they have a drain hole? I noticed that many plastic or resin containers like that including the troughs, have plastic plugs over the drain holes that you'd have to remove if you want it to drain (I'm guessing they are there to allow the containers to be filled with water too, so that option is made available). Ceramics sometimes have a plug blocking a central hole or may have no hole at all. |
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