Hanging baskets

[justdontevenfuckingstart]

I am about to go and water my baskets which I planted yesterday so they currently look pathetic.
I will waťer religiously every morning and night. They will grow and look beautiful for possibly 3 days then will go ''fuck you' and die.
I will then stare at the shrivelled baskets for the rest of the summer.
Wouldn't have planted the fucking things but they kept staring at me from last year's failed attempt. (yes I am lazy and they've been hanging there dead for months)
So AIBU (don't really have one) in being angry at my baskets.

My baskets do this to me every year the cunts, but i always fall for their trickery and give it another failing try every spring

Artificial rules!😄😄

Get a Costco card, then go buy and replace with their large hanging baskets every season, takes away all of that shit you're going through

Mine were the same until I started using water holding gel in with the compost. This is the first year they are looking good (probably cursed them now )

Watering twice a day is unnecessary except in the hottest weather.

Hang them in a place where they aren't in full sun all day.

Water before sun up or, preferably, after sun down.

Add a pinch of plant food to the water once they have been in the basket for about 6 weeks (this is when the nutrients in the compost start to run out).

Dead head regularly.

Agree you must be watering too much. They may be rotting.

I use new compost, plenty of good sized plug plants with a couple of taller specimens in the centre and trailing bits round the sides. Include some plants for foliage and stick to a colour palate.

Water regularly but not excessively..obviously as the plants get big they drink much more. Feed every few weeks, deadhead and enjoy.

Try again, it's not supposed to be too hard. Or buy a fab ready made one but you won't love it the same.

Thanks all, not too much water I don't think, they are full sun where they are.
I shall try once a day and see how I go and then blame you all for their inevitable demise.
I do fine everywhere else, front garden and veg patch doing great. Just can't do baskets, or orchids, or bleeding heart. Oh and clematis.

www.coopersofstortford.co.uk/coopers-of-stortford-artificial-hydrangea-hanging-basket-prodst09981i/
I have 3!

I use these baskets, where you pour the water down a tube into the chamber in the bottom, and the compost automatically takes up water as necessary. Easier as you can't overwater, and can miss a day if it's not too hot. www.amazon.co.uk/Stewart-Corinthian-Hanging-Basket-Terracotta/dp/B00511BQHE.

+1 for Stewart Corinthians. I grow strawberries in mine!

No - you can't give too much water, as long as they drain well. Lots of water every day until it comes out of the bottom of the basket. I usually put other potted plants underneath to catch the water.

Right. Having gone from hanging basket total failure, to hanging basket success...

Use a hanging basket with a plastic liner. Pierce the liner in a few places, so it will help retain water, but not too much. Use a compost designated for containers and hanging baskets. Water compost thoroughly before planting anything, and water plants well before planting. Once planted, water and hang. Watering lightly twice daily only water the top layer of the compost. Water more heavily once daily in hot/dry weather, every couple of days if not. In order to avoid squashing the plants during heavy watering, use a fine rose spray. Make sure you can see water coming out of the bottom of the basket when watering.

I line my baskets with plastic with just a hole punctured at the bottom. I don't think you can overwater baskets, they are subject to wind drying as well as the moisture take-up by the plants and evaporation loss by the sun. The plants in baskets are commonly annuals which are designed by nature to grow lots very fast in order to flower in their first season, and that means a LOT of water.

Slow release fertilisers mixed in with the compost, and water retaining granules, will help you keep up with the water loss. As others have said, dead-head regularly to keep new buds forming and keeps the basket looking nice. (If you don't dead-head the plant will concentrate on making seeds instead of making new flowers, so make sure you pick off the seed capsule bit and not just petals)

It is very sunny at the moment, personally I would water them at least once a day but twice might be better.*

*My disclaimer: I don't actually have any hanging baskets this year, because of all the flipping hard work. But I have worked at making them in a nursery as well as doing my own previously...