[BiggKidd]

Did your tubs not have proper drainage? Rain shouldn’t cause anything to die off unless it’s a succulent or there was standing water. One other thing would be if the rain were poisoned with something. Even if a lot of nutrients did get washed out the plants shouldn’t have died just slowed growth.

[SLH]

They have drain holes but I guess not enough because we had lots of rain every day

[Chloe]

I used bone meal, magnesium, and tums for calcium.

[SLH]

Thanks. I used epsoms salt. Now to get some tums and bone meal. Just any tums?

[Chloe]

I use any tums.

[Prayer-Garden]

Why not just use calcium nitrate? More reliable and has directions instead of guessing? And don’t forget that most of the stuff you put in the ground has to be broken down before its available to the plants. But sounds like they just drowned. We’ve gotten 3″ a day for 4 days in a row, and I haven’t lost anything in my tubs, planters or 8″ high raised beds. And 3 if my beds flooded.

[Private_Cluck]

We went through hurricane Harvey that dropped over 50″ of rain in two days and did not lose any plants in the containers (or anything in the garden for that matter). The plants, including tomatoes, were all very mature – don’t know if that was a factor or not. Seems suspicious that you would lose so many plants so fast.