Plant Tips
Plant Tip: Know Your Bugs
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- Published on Tuesday, June 03 2014 07:01
- Written by BCG Editors
Before you squash every insect you see in your garden, make sure you know which insects are good and which are bad! Some insects will do so much damage to your container plants that they may kill them if they get a strong enough foothold (think of slugs chomping on your lettuce and tomato hornworm caterpillars devouring your tomato and potato plants). But other insects are there to help you. They may pollinate the flowers in your garden or they may keep the other insects in check! Do some reading up on good and bad insects, and if you don't recognize a creature in your garden, look it up before you do anything to it!
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Plant Tip: Use a Rooting Hormone to Help Cuttings
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- Published on Tuesday, May 27 2014 06:21
- Written by BCG Editors
Taking cuttings are an easy way to start new plants, and so many of our plants can be cloned with this method. (Yay for free plants!) Some plants, like pothos plants, just need a stem and a few leaves, a vase of water and some indirect sunlight. Other plants aren't so easy. They will grow better and faster if you dip the cutting into water and then into a powdered (or sometimes liquid) rooting hormone before placing it in water or potting soil to start growing. This hormone will encourage the cutting to grow roots rather than simply die.
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Plant Tip: Look at Leaf Tips
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- Published on Tuesday, May 20 2014 06:15
- Written by BCG Editors
Look at leaf tips as an indicator of plant health. When watering your container plants, check if you see yellow, brown or dried up leaf tips. If you see this in your plants, double check this plant's watering requirements. You may be watering it too little or too much. If it has been really hot or really sunny, and the soil has dried out, move the plant to a less sunny spot and water well. You may have also provided this plant with too much fertilizer. If you have overfertilized, hold off on the plant fertilizer for a while. Just keep an eye on your plant, and it should get healthy in no time!
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