@macs sounds like they’re lacking fertilizer. If they’re draining well and the pot is large enough.

I’d try some miracle gro. Just to see if it responds. I recommend miracle gro cause the plant can absorb it through the leaves as well as the soil. See if they respond to that

It could also be too much water but if those pots are draining that shouldn’t be the case. But too much water will most certainly cause yellowing

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Here's a pic for you, Jake. https://imgur.com/a/0WiQGjW

Close to the 3 week mark.

Robert that looks nice

Thanks guys. I'll try to post an update in a month or so.

I don't know, he did say the drainage in the container was good. If the pot is too small for the type of plant, then it might be root bound and stressed. Could be other things too.
But ya, roots sitting in stagnant water (anaerobic conditions) isn't good. It promotes anaerobic bacteria that make compounds toxic to plants.
Foilage needs CO2, and roots need oxygen.

Is there a best or forbidden time of year to aerate a lawn?

What do you do after?

I wouldn't do it. Just let Jimmy Hoffa rest in pieces.

Astroturf has to breathe too.

All my plants are in the soil container garden on the deck at the new apt so starting from scratch. Veggies and flowers. Pole beans, peas, hot and sweet peppers, cherry toms and regular tomatoes cucumbers for veggies. For herbs they would include chives, basil, oregano, rosemary, parsley, lavender, tyme, sage, and probably a couple others that don't come to mind.

Flowers are Sunflowers, marigolds of a couple different colors, petunias, and prolly a couple others that don't come to mind. Local garden nursery had a sale on stuff so I dropped like $50 buying stuff. Prolly not get a return on the investment veggie wise but many hobbies have a negative return on investment money wise. Sending time on many hobbies and the mental payback has no dollar value (gardening, smoking cigars, playing music, hiking, biking, working on a car, screwing around with computers etc..).

I'd like to attract bees to pollinate plants and get some humming birds buzzing around. Hopefully the flowers I chose will keep them coming back for more. The peppers have already started making flowers and some have already been pollinate. Flowers have closed down and are in the process process of making fruit. It seems a bit early but who am I to say?

The flowers are annuals, I'd rather have perennials and bulb stuff but they wouldn't work well in deck grow containers. Neighbor across the street has probably10 well established raised beds and some of their perinatals are off and running, Kinda jealous. Maybe I should go introduce myself and ask it they want to share some cuttings for my little container garden.

I'm down to less than two quarts of the Red Armor, so I'll probably buy another gallon this winter.

It's 77 dollars a gallon on Amazon. Up 5 bucks from 1 1/2 ago.

Searched around a little and found some Husqvarna XP+ 2 cycle for 44 dollars a gallon--almost half the price of Red Armor.

What's your opinion on the XP? Do you think Red Armor is worth almost twice the price?



The garden & the corn plot are looking really good thus far.

Temps been really cool and dry lately--few nights in upper 40's to low 50's. Plenty of sunshine in the day though.

Been watering every 2 or 3 days. We been using the water pump and water from the creek.

Robert the husky oil is good. My personal opinion is the red armor is better. I’ve taken some stuff completely apart ram on various oils. Red armor leaves the most oil behind (protection). You’ll be ok with either. I just like the residual oil.

So the bottle of red armor will make more gallons of mix fuel. For me

A couple days ago I dug up NINE "Rose of Sharon" bushes/trees growing near the creek on the western end of the property. We distributed them throughout the yard.

Got a lot of poison Ivy on my arms for my effort. Mix that in with the biting insects and I'm itching. "Tecnu" brand scrub and spray are the only things I have found that really work. Using them a couple times daily.

Starter rope on my 2-stroke water pump broke yesterday evening. Buffalo Corp (China chit) is sending us a new starter assembly for free. Plus we went ahead and ordered another complete pump bc 2 is 1 and 1 is none. The only machine I don't have a backup for is the machine that broke...

I wish Stihl made a water pump with their "4 mix" engine... If these two 2 stroke pumps don't hold up then I'm going to drop the coin on a Honda WX-10 4 stroke water pump--commercial grade engine, over 500 bucks after tax. Next couple watering sessions we're back to the bucket brigade--takin water from our water catchment barrels.

Used "Sevin" insect spray on the corn plot. Took almost a gallon to cover the 35 rows. The Japanese beetles were either dying or flying. Got to buy more of that.

My small collection of container plants: Peas, beans, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, herbs and flowers are going strong. Some peppers plants and and tom plants broke into flowers. Maybe a week or so they will start making fruit.

Corn looks nice and healthy. Should turn out well if weather continues to cooperate