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My plants in baskets won’t grow even though I water them everyday.?

My planters are all wire baskets which are lined with peet. The weather has been very hot but I water, at night, throoughly, almost every night. There are ten baskets and each one has growth with it’s own degree of success but one, after two months, hasn’t grown, generally, more than an inch and a half. I have planted wild flowers, zinnias and marigolds. I would say that the site is about ten feet long with direct sun for several hours a day, and from only one side, though that side shifts with the sun. One end is sunnier than the other but is not noticably more growing than the other end. I planted then with potting soil that was supposed to have 7 months of fertilizer. I think a lot has left with the draining water everyday but I don’t know. Can you offer advice and can you tell me what I might be able to plant this time of the year in order to recoup the loss of my growth? I live in central Indiana. Thank You

There’s an excellent book called Container Gardening by Ed Smith, where he explains the virtues of self-watering containers. The problem with plants not in self-watering containers is that for much of the time, they plants have either too much or too little water, and when you do water, it washes the nutrients away. With self-watering containers, the plants get exactly the water they need, and the nutrients stay put in the soil so that they’re available for the plants. So if you wanted to try replanting, you might consider getting self-watering hanging baskets. Ask for them at your local garden center. They fill them with flowering seedlings, since it’s a little late to start growing flowers from seeds now.

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