[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Well, I am off to town:(, I hate going over the river, especially clear to Tulsa, but my weed wacker is finished being repaired and I have to pick it up.

I am also going to buy some more flowers to plant, I pulled all the petunias up I had in my flower garden, so I have a bare spot. They just looked awful. They were growing big, had lots of flowers, but the flowers, even as soon as they opened went real limp, and were mushy and sticky to the touch. This is my first experience with flower gardening. Anyway, when I pulled them up I noticed that the roots were the same as when I first planted them, they had seemed to have not grown at all. Anyone know what I did wrong? Is it my soil? It isn't the best, kinda hard. I am going to work on it this winter. But everything else I have planted seems to be doing great.

Becky

[2Jedismom]

Root bound, maybe? Kinda pull the roots apart a bit...just loosen them up before you plant. Coming over to my side of the river, huh?

I gotta go soon too...

[HairOfTheDog]

I have had annuals do well all year and when I empty the pots out in the fall, the roots are still in the shape of the original pot.... I think all it means in that case is that the roots never had to go looking for more water, that I watered them plenty. In this case of yours, who knows why they were sick really.... All flowers like Miracle grow with every watering.... try that!