These last few months have been overwhelming for my plants, not only the drought and the excessive heat, but also the lack of water in the area where I live, and every time the electricity goes out we are left without water for several days. The little that reaches the water tank has been difficult to extract because the same power outages damaged the engine that carried it to the water lines of the house. In short, I could not find a way to help my plants with the same constancy as always.

The maintenance of my garden has always been one of my priorities but sometimes things get out of our hands, it was crucial for me to supply them daily with a little water so they could resist, but my ferns were the ones that suffered the most during these months without a drop of rain and without water in the area. I used to carry a bucket daily from the tank in the patio to water them a little, and now that the water is more or less returning, I am restoring them in the midst of their new shoots.

The dry twigs, where their leaves resembled a crackling, filled me with sadness, and with a wire cutter, I gradually removed all these dry sticks. I have not finished the work yet, I finished the one in the center of my window that the sticks were thicker and more difficult to cut, but it is already restored, I added some fertilizer that I still kept, and in the night hours, which is when a little water reaches the pipe, I irrigate them until they are well impregnated.

Ferns, as we all know, are plants that only survive in humidity, and a drought like the one we had during the first months of the year is fatal for them.

Another option for some of my other plants that were affected by the drought, was to place them in hanging baskets under the air conditioners and in this way they were kept moist with the constant droplets that the air conditioners filtered.

It was suggested that I plant some with a coconut shell around the edges, as watering them kept them moist and provided the lubrication needed to support them a little longer.

That way, some delicate hangers like the Mala madre and Cucarachita plants were preserved thanks to this technique (I don't remember their other names, but that's what my mother called them).

My favorite plant are the ferns, I had many and I have lost them due to the high temperatures and few roofed spaces to protect them, but as far as possible I have recovered some and the restoration process continues, waiting for the water problem in this area to be completely solved, and the rains begin to appear to support me with them.

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