Homemade Plant Food Recipe

Fruit juices usually contain a high amount of sugar due to the natural sugars from fruits. However, there seems to be a benefit in using fruit juices to water plants, but only if it is diluted. A diluted solution of a ratio of 2 tablespoons of juice to 1 L of water can provide some nutrients.

Drink orange juice, but don’t use it to water the plants. Orange juice is good for people, so it might seem logical to think it would be good for plants as well. However, that is not the case. Orange juice can stunt the growth of plants, so it is best to avoid using it.

• 1 teaspoon baking soda.
• 1 tablespoon epsom salts.
• ½ teaspoon of ammonia.
• 1 gallon of water.

Plants, like all living organisms, have basic needs: a source of nutrition (food), water, space in which to live, air, and optimal temperatures in order to grow and reproduce. For most plants, these needs are summarized as light, air, water, and nutrients (known by the acronym LAWN).

Water, air, light, soil nutrients, and the correct temperature for the right plants are the most basic factors to make a plant grow faster and bigger.

All plants need these seven things to grow: room to grow, the right temperature, light, water, air, nutrients, and time.

10 Ways to Keep Your Garden Healthy

1. Examine plants carefully before buying. Good roots Bad roots.
2. Use fully composted yard waste.
3. Keep an eye on your bugs.
4. Clean up in the fall.
5. Apply the correct fertilizer.
6. Plant disease-resistant varieties.
7. Prune damaged limbs at the right time.
8. Choose and site plants appropriately.

Plants need five things in order to grow: sunlight, proper temperature, moisture, air, and nutrients. These five things are provided by the natural or artificial environments where the plants live.

Can plants grow without soil? Answer: Yes, plants can grow without soil, but they cannot grow without the necessities that soil provides. Plants need support, nutrients, protection from adverse temperatures, an even supply of moisture, and they need oxygen around the roots.

Plants do grow in water, but they grow the best planted on land in soil where they can get soil, sunlight, water, and air. Answer 2: In general, plants need more than just water to grow big and healthy, although water is a good start, and seeds can usually be “germinated” with just water.

Many indoor houseplants, such as, begonias, coleus, polka-dot-plant, ivies and philodendrons root easily in water. Other plants, including many woody plants such as hibiscus and citrus will not root well in water. They usual rot before rooting.

Some plants thrive in water, others drown. Know this though, almost any plant can be rooted or propagated in water; Just not all of them will nourish and grow. The process used for growing any type of houseplant in water with zero soil is called hydroculture.

Good Plants for Water

• Chinese evergreen (Aglaonemas)
• Dumbcane (Dieffenbachia)
• English ivy.
• Philodendron.
• Moses-in-a-cradle (Rhoeo)
• Pothos.
• Wax plant.
• Arrowhead.

Plants That Can Grow in Water

• Pothos.
• Swedish ivy.
• Fiddle leaf fig.
• Baby’s tears.
• Impatiens.
• Coleus.
• Grape ivy.
• African violet.

Just fill your pot with potting soil, plant one or 2 cuttings, water them and place the pot at a sunny or half shady corner of your garden. If you don’t want to grow in soil, don’t worry you can still grow plenty of mint in water. I must tell you, you can keep om growing mint in water for as long as you want.

approximately one week

Sprinkle the soil with a little time-release fertilizer if you wish. Water in the plants well. Finally, positioning your fingers like mine in the photo at left, pinch off the top two to four leaves on each plant. This will make the mint branch out and become bushy.