Hello everyone. Welcome back to the epic gardening podcast. Today we are taking a look at things that could be causing your leaves to wilt besides watering, besides the moisture of the soil.

And so the reality is leaves wilting

are a response to a number of different things,

not just the fact that the plant does not have water, right? So many of those things do lead directly back to water deficits in the leaf.

But for example, if you're talking about an urban environment like my own,

one of the biggest things that can cause leaf wilt is something called root anoxia.

And so an equals without anoxia is oxygen so without air. So soils that are a bit too

compacted, a bit too heavy in clay, those are really good candidates for root anoxia, roots that are deficient in oxygen, which means

that the roots aren't working the way that they should be working.

So roots are living, of course, and they require oxygen for survival.

That's something that a lot of people seem to not know or forget about.

They don't have the ability to photosynthesize, so they need oxygen from the soil or from the above ground parts of your plant.

If you have too much water, that will actually fill the soil pores and will drown your plant

roots and eliminate gas exchange, which means there's not enough oxygen in the

roots and the roots can't actually take up water despite the fact that there's more than

enough water actually in the soil.

So the leaves are still going to transpire,

they're still going to give off water.

And then eventually those leaves wilt

as their water content decreases,

but the funny part is there's plenty of water in the soil, the roots just aren't working to get it there, right?

But that's not the only one, and I know I've talked about that particular issue, maybe last week on the

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