The Secret to Having Healthy Plants – Aquascapes
The Secret to Having Healthy Plants – Aquascapes
Growing flowers may be easier than raising kids, but the two pursuits have their similarities. You need a good home environment for strong roots and regularly weeding out bad company. Ensuring proper nutrition and strong growth will lead to the pride and satisfaction of guiding your young upstarts to blooming maturity.
Some plants are more fussy than others. If you aren’t confident growing more challenging plants, do your research first. Decide whether you think you’ll be able to manage or not. If you are drawn to a more difficult plant, make sure you find out how to care for it and stick to this!
Top plant care tips to get on the right track
No matter how much care and attention you give to plants, they aren’t going to thrive if you don’t know their specific needs. If you want, you can buy a plant that’s already alive and healthy from a local greenhouse. Then you can just have fun watering it and giving it sunlight and nourishment.
- Take the time to prepare the proper environment before new plants arrive. Good soil preparation is the single most important thing you can do for your plants.
- Your plants need water, light and warmth to survive. So when you’re off on vacation, don’t forget about your green friends. Make sure that someone else knows to keep the blinds open.
- You should be checking your indoor plants weekly and outdoor plants at least every other day to see how they are doing. This will help you to detect any problems before they get out of hand. Make checking your plants a part of your routine.
- The kind of friends your flowers hang around with at this stage of rapid growth will influence how straight and sturdy they are as adults. Weeds rob your seedlings of nutrients and water and make them look bad.
- Once seeds sprout, they are at the vulnerable seedling or toddler stage. At this point, it’s your duty to hover over them. Keep the soil moist, but avoid the temptation to fertilize until you see two true leaves.
- Keep an eye on your bugs. Insect damage to plants is much more than cosmetic. Viruses and bacteria often can only enter a plant through some sort of opening, and bug damage provides that.
- Getting a soil test through your local extension agency will provide you with accurate information on nutrient levels in your soil. Without it, any feeding of your plants is likely to be guesswork on your part and may result in too much of one nutrient or not enough of another.
- Take care when spacing transplants, and keep an eye on established plants as they spread. Crowded plants create their own humidity, which allows diseases to thrive.
Last word
Before planting a garden or adding a plant to your potted collection, search online or ask an expert at a nursery questions about what conditions the plants need. Figure out in what region the plants do best. Just because a plant isn’t native to your area doesn’t mean you can’t grow it. It’s usually much easier to grow plants that do well in your region’s climate, temperature and soil.
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