This week’s heat may make your plants shrivel. Here’s how to help them.
If your plants looked pooped and your hydrangea looks like it needs hydration it is time to do double duty on the watering to avoid losing plants to the summer heat.
Barbara Borella of Borella’s Farm Stand in St. James said wateringff everyday and some cases twice a day will help keep your plants perky.
“You have to water daily,” said Borella. “Plants should get a gallon of water and should also be fed weekly.”
Borella said it only takes one missed day of watering for plants to die. She suggests watering daily and in many cases twice per day, in the morning and at night.
“Many people give their plants a glass a water, shut the door and forget about them. We water from morning until night here.”
Borella should know; she has been with the family business, along with her sister, which started in 1955, since she was a child. Before there was a stand, her mother sold produce and flowers up the road, where Nessaquake Elementary is.
Plants should be fed weekly, said Borella who uses Jack’s plant food.
“Keep up the water this week. When you’re thirsty, your plants are thirsty,” she said.
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