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My tomato plant taught me how much water a balcony actually keeps
After 3 weeks of droopy leaves, I finally weighed my 5-gallon pots before and after a storm and found out the roof above my balcony sends 80% of the rain straight off the edge, so has anyone else had to rig a gutter or tarp just to keep their plants from drying out?
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matthewgonzalez1mo ago
Same deal on my deck, the overhang channels everything to one corner and my pots on the other side stay bone dry. Had to stack a bunch of milk crates and a cheap tarp to catch the runoff and funnel it into a bucket. Works okay, but now I feel like a pirate every time it rains and I'm hauling water to the plants.
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jana_lewis161mo ago
Wow, that's exactly what I dealt with, ended up angling a rain barrel spout to catch it!
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