The heat is starting to climb, so the early season stuff is starting to struggle a bit. Looks like terra cotta beats plastic and big beats small. There you go, empirical evidence of a fact everyone already knew: plants prefer the expensive pots
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Love it, do you water the smaller ones more though? They would dry out faster, the terracotta also provides an insulating effect as it has air pockets in it.
I’m curious if my cloth bag ones are gonna do better than my plastic myself, the air pruning they give the roots is supposed to be better than any hard shell ones, BUT they dry out faster so need more water. Tradeoffs with everything it seems.
What’s “heat” in your neck of the woods? springs barely made it, summers 2 weeks away and we are supposed to be 25c (77f) which is already bolting territory for a bunch of stuff if I’m not mistaken.
I don't. I do water my potted stuff more, but these guys are on the lines, so it's equal across. I definitely should have considered that, but these were the pots I had when I was setting up, so we ran. Turned into a nice little advertisement for large terra cotta
Always trade-offs. The bags will absolutely dry out faster in my experience, but they do avoid anything related to drainage issues and hey, can't beat how well they store. Still looking for one that can last as long as a pot, but they make a lot of sense in market gardens
Right now we're getting mid-80's (~30C) for highs, but by July/August, we'll be flirting with 100 (37.8C) most days. My lettuce and broccoli are already bolting. Bout time to take a break from brassica til late July when I put down my first fall starts
Definitely gives justification to get more since it works for your grow/life style haha.
I’m the other way, my pots usually break, they get brittle with hot cold cycles so I don’t like buying expensive ones, and I don’t want to store them indoor, garage at most. I do rinse them off, but still less critter chance the better.
Ughh that’s too dang hot, we average 25s all summer, but it’ll get up to high 30s sometimes. The shitty throng is, there’s like no spring as you’ve seen, so we could easily get mid 30s here in the next couple weeks even. So straight from winter into the fire, but those aren’t frequent atleast, and they typically bring afternoon thundershowers. The hail and other shits another story haha.