Soil Problems?
Our internet provider has been having problems the last few days. I haven't been able to blog, upload any photos or read my email. The email came on for a couple of minutes and now has gone off again. This seems to be working so will try and post.
We went to the tianguis this morning and then walked uptown to an internet cafe and read some emails. We then headed over to the plaza and sat in the shade there for awhile before heading home.
As we are living on the second floor any gardening I do is in pots. When we first started buying plants last fall, we also needed to buy soil. We purchased a bag here and a bag there at various viveros (nurseries) where we were shopping.
Since we planted everything last fall there have been a couple of casualties or near casualties. One of the roses has died and the Allemanda and Bouganvillea were not looking good. The leaves had turned yellowish/white and they had quit blooming some time ago. I thought that perhaps they were lacking something, so I fertilized them, didn't help. All three of these plants had been planted at the same time in the same soil.
When I was wondering about one day, I had the idea that perhaps there had been something wrong with the one bag of soil that we had bought. With this in mind I decided to transplant the Bouganvillea and the Allemanda (which by this time was almost dead).
Shortly after I transplanted them the Allemanda died a quick death. The bouganvillea on the other hand has perked up, the leaves are getting greener and it is beginning to bloom. Maybe it was the soil. What could have been in this one bag? Too much salt perhaps? Who knows, anyway hopefully it will continue to recover.
