RpR said:Dig down and see what the soil is like.
How large of a hole did you make for each plant?
What type of compost?
What is the black stuff?
quercusnut said:Did you plant them without breaking up their rootballs? If so they're probably not putting new roots out into the new soil and their rootballs could be dry even though the surrounding soil is moist.
Firstgardenblues said:
I don't know anything about soil, what should I be looking for? Moist is the best I got.
We dug a bit larger than the pot it came in maybe 1.5x bigger.
Mulch
sooby said:
The lawn is brown which also suggests not enough water. I find a lot of plants don't like the black mulch, I suspect because it increases the heat around the plants because of the dark colour but it seems to depend on the plant.
quercusnut said:Did you plant them without breaking up their rootballs? If so they're probably not putting new roots out into the new soil and their rootballs could be dry even though the surrounding soil is moist.
Firstgardenblues said:
We "roughed up" the roots on the outside. So that the outer roots could spread Is that inadequate?