Last week I wrote about bottom watering plants. That works well as long as you don’t allow your plants to stand in the water too long. Why? What happens to your plant if it stands in water too long? Suffocation and root rot. Drainage hole or cachepot Let’s...
Bottom watering plants. What is that? Why would you water plants from the bottom? There are a couple of reasons people choose to water that way. Let’s talk about bottom watering plants and the benefit there may be. What is bottom watering? Let’s first...
I was recently given a beautiful white flowering African violet. I love it! As you can see, it is planted in a clay pot. Let’s discuss clay pots, soluble salts, and what they can do to your plants, especially African violets. Clay pots-are they always the best...
Have you let a plant get a bit too dry and the leaves have curled up or it has wilted over the edge of the pot? The potting medium shrinks away from the sides of the pot and the water runs down the sides of the root ball instead of soaking in. This happened to me this...
