Vent: Took me 3 years to realize I was overwatering my balcony tomatoes

I kept wondering why my tomato leaves were always yellowing and dropping off no matter what I did. Then last August my neighbor across the hall who grows peppers said "your soil looks like mud" and it finally clicked. I was watering every single day in 90 degree heat when they really only needed it every 2-3 days. Anyone else have that one dumb mistake that took way too long to figure out?

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ray6484mo ago

Three years sounds rough but I've noticed most people learn gardening the hard way by doing too much.

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jamesrivera4mo ago

Learning gardening the hard way" pretty much sums it up, @ray648 and I turned my balcony into a swamp first.

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