How to care for indoor plants

How to care for indoor plants

You can organize your own garden in your home. There’s nothing like taking care of the plants in the home with his own hands. Here are some tips to maintain healthy plants, remove those wilted and incorporate some depending on the season.

Tips for maintaining healthy plants

To keep plants in the home should take care that they are healthy. If they are healthy, they are also beautiful and a cheerful atmosphere. The task is simple and even has the therapeutic benefits of relaxation, which can be achieved with a few tools and strong will.

A first step is to group several plants in the same pot that provide including moisture and achieve a lush decorated attraction capable of attracting the eyes of members and visitors to the home.

It is also important to remove plants all those leaves and withered branches, since they not only occupy a place, but that they interfere with the normal growth of the rest of the plants.

It is important to place the plants in brighter corners, taking precautions with those plants that do not support too much direct light emission. Therefore the protection will have to be to prevent them from excessive sunlight, as well also keep them away from the excessive heating in winter times.

Remember always to water their plants, but be careful not to drown them. The important thing is to keep the ground wet and add more water only when needed. It is ideal to maintain a schedule of two or three times a week.

Sometimes you may notice that even though I water your plant, it remains undernourished. This is a sign indicating that you need to transport it to another bigger pot, or change part of the land on the other with organic properties. Another signal indicating the need to transfer the plant to another pot is when the Earth is too compact and sticky. It is also recommended to make between two or three transplants per year at the time of the spring or before flowering.

You may also notice that some plants or leaves are wilted, in this case you can revive them is adding an infusion of cold tea.
There are plants that grow better according to the location in which they are arranged. For example the Hollies, azaleas and ivy are developed more if it is situated with view towards the North, others like daisies, geraniums instead acquire greater glory if they are located overlooking the South.

 

Another element to take into account at the time of the selection of plants, is if station are or if they have a permanent duration. That glow and decorate your home throughout the year, are the ferns, the fig, vines and hanging plants. Instead, others are specific to each station and your choice will go through a decision of aesthetic and decorative type.

The disadvantages that may arise

Plants undesirable in some sectors, but only in those where the Earth is altered may appear. They are neither bad nor interfere the growth of other plants, and even sometimes tend to be useful since they provide green matter, occupy and protect empty sectors faced a possible erosion. They serve as a fertilizer, although they may seem at first glance that are invading the terrain for the growth of the rest of the plants.