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Why Fertilizing Indoor Plants In The Winter Is a Bad Idea

Catherine Sherriffs

Winter days are for admiring indoor plants and showering them with tender loving care. Although tempting, don’t go overboard with the TLC. When it comes to houseplants, fertilizing in the fall and winter is a big gardening no-no. Why Fertilize? Generally speaking, houseplants are happy if you provide them with their required light and a…

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Phytomicrobiom: What The Hell Are Mushrooms Doing In My Pots?

Phytomicrobiom, or phytobiome, is a complicated word for a straightforward thing: the community of fungi, bacteria, and destructors that live in the root area of your plants. An intact phytobiome supports plants in many different ways, but science is only just beginning to understand the connections between them. Optimizing the phytobiome is the key to sustainable agriculture, satisfying our needs in harmony with nature.
February 24, 2020
Florian Henrich

Helping Your Houseplants Get The Light They Need

Houseplants don’t have only one time to shine; they’re a beautiful addition to the home year-round. But what if your space lacks the light to bounce off all that greenery? It’s no secret that plants need light to survive. They turn light, water, and carbon dioxide and turn it into food for themselves, a process…
November 29, 2019
Catherine Sherriffs

How Your Garden Grows: The Impact Of Sound On Plants

There’s a theory that you can give your gardens a boost by singing or talking to your plants. When my three-year-old learned about this recently, he began belting out a tune by Nirvana to one of my houseplants. Yes, Nirvana. I have a pretty cool kid. Like humans, plants are living things, and they need…
February 6, 2019
Catherine Sherriffs

Closeup: Microscopic World of Plants

We’ve all seen unrealistic drawings or digital facsimiles of chloroplasts. The cells responsible for creating chlorophyll in plants, which are so tiny that the human eye and standard issue microscope cannot detect them. But that’s what they really look like above. An actual closeup photograph of the chloroplasts inside a plant cell. Who has a…
September 24, 2016
Amber

4 Amazing Facts About Plants

A gardener spends a lot of time tending to their patch of plants grown for food or beauty. There is little of either without us in constant attendance supplying water, fertilizer, shaping them up, and protecting them from insects or diseases.  It leads a human to believe they are helpless, mindless things. Surprise! Plants are brilliant. 1. Plants…
August 29, 2016
Tammy Clayton