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I finally figured out why my balcony tomatoes kept wilting after a heavy rain in Chicago last month.
I was out of town for a weekend storm and came back to find my 5-gallon fabric pots completely waterlogged, so I drilled extra drainage holes and mixed in a bunch of perlite, which saved the plants but has anyone else had to fix a balcony flood like that?
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brooke4846mo ago
Drilling holes seems like overkill. Fabric pots are supposed to breathe on their own, so maybe the problem was something else.
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the_michael6mo ago
Had the same thing happen with my fabric pots on a covered patio, they just held water like a sponge after a downpour. I get what @brooke484 is saying about them breathing, but in a real storm the sides can't drain fast enough if the bottom is already soaked. Adding more holes low on the sides and mixing in coarse sand saved my peppers last year. Sometimes the standard setup just isn't enough for crazy weather.
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