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Help! Garden wilting

13 years ago

We recently had 3 days of heavy rain from the tropical storm. So much rain that I had to actually scoop water out of the garden that the plants were just sitting in. After I helped to drain the excess water, I thought it would be a good time to fertilize. The next day I notices the plants were starting to wilt with a sort of whitish color to the leaves. Today all of them are wilting and look horrible. Too much water or too much fertilizer? I stuck my finger in the soil and it is still very wet. Please help!

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13 years ago
Too much water and improper time to apply fertilizer (after a heavy rain).

The best way to take care of the fertilizer issue is to flush it out of the root zone...but given how saturated the soil is, that would not work so well. It would also exasperate the saturated soil issue, which is effecting the soil/root/oxygen (which is quite important).

About the only thing you can do is wait for the water saturation issue to sort itself. The root/oxygen issue is currently more important of an issue to resolve than the fertilizer application issue.

The plants may still recover even with some leaf "burn" taking down some (or parts) or the leaves.
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