Tips on the secrets of growing and caring for indoor plants. We reveal the secrets of how to properly care for house flowers. The most important thing is water quality

Caring for indoor plants - There are a great many types of indoor plants, but, as a rule, they are all conditionally divided into just a few groups, which differ strikingly in their care characteristics. Some plants are moisture-loving, others cannot tolerate excessive moisture. Some people prefer higher air temperatures, while others prefer the opposite. There are plants that love the sun and even direct sunlight, some cannot tolerate them. Our section on caring for indoor plants is aimed at ensuring that you can easily find the necessary information about the features of caring for a specific plant - how to water, how to deal with pests and diseases, what place in the house to choose for its growth?

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Every owner of a garden plot faces the question of improving soil quality. Or - at the very beginning when developing the site. Or after a while, because some crops grow well on the site, but others wither, get sick, or refuse altogether. Or because the yield of those crops that previously bore fruit without problems is decreasing. In such cases, they buy a machine of humus, peat, black soil or manure, or go to the store for mineral fertilizers.

The solemn and austere “daisies” of Gatsania are one of the largest and most original among the entire Astrov family. This plant attracts fans of geometry and modern patterns in potted format. And if on the streets, balconies, verandas and terraces gatsaniya seems to be a real star, then as a houseplant it is very little known. Meanwhile, it is Gatsania, of all the bright and fashionable summer plants, that is best suited for growing indoors.

Beef ribs stewed with vegetables and chanterelles is a dish that, although it will take 2-3 hours to prepare, does not require much effort: all the ingredients are placed in layers in a roasting pan and then simmered on the stove for a long time. The meat turns out so tender that it simply falls off the ribs, and the vegetables, soaked in juices, become incredibly tasty and perfectly complement the beef. In short, without getting particularly tired, you can cook meat with a side dish for lunch or dinner.

A kidney transplant is a complex and responsible operation in general. Even if we are talking about rose buds. In this article I will tell you the whole truth about grafting roses using the budding method. You will understand why gardeners usually do not graft roses, but prefer to buy already grafted ones from a nursery. Budding is the transplantation of a bud from a varietal plant to a rosehip rootstock. A kidney can be transplanted to any part of the trunk. And not only for rose hips. A rose can be grafted onto another rose.

The last calendar month of summer for every gardener becomes the first month of preparation for the coming winter. In addition to pressing problems and a bountiful harvest, you have to think about many other things. After all, soil preparation, flower separation, and proper storage are no less important than preparing the lawn and caring for vegetables. This month in the lunar calendar is also special. Work in the ornamental garden and vegetable garden is divided into extended periods.

Traditional tea made from tea leaves is perhaps one of the most beloved drinks around the world. But this article will talk about no less fashionable herbal teas. Today they have become an indispensable component of a healthy lifestyle. I will tell you about my experience: how I prepare and store mint, lavender, dill, grape and apple leaf tea at home, their health benefits and rules of use. Since time immemorial, Rus' has been drinking herbal teas.

Tomato and cucumber salad for the winter is the most delicious and simple recipe. Various types of vegetable salads are prepared on an industrial scale. In addition to a large amount of vinegar, there are also various food additives, with indices that are incomprehensible to the average person. In a homemade salad for the winter, everything is different - the housewife regulates the acid, and she also monitors sterility and pasteurization, which is why such preparations are incredibly popular at the holiday table.

Lady's slippers today are almost replaced from counters and window sills by hardy phalaenopsis. Luxuriously blooming, medium-sized and very variable, Paphiopedilums are orchids whose blooms you can admire endlessly. Nostalgic and fashionable at the same time, for many they remain unfamiliar plants, shrouded in myths and legends. In practice they are much friendlier than their royal reputation suggests. Paphiopedilums do not bloom without careful care.

Peach compote for the winter with red plums and garden berries is prepared using the hot pour method. Filling can be two or three times; for reliability, you can also add sterilization if you plan to store the blanks in the apartment. It is better to choose fruits for compote that are a little unripe so that the slices retain their shape. It is better to make jam or jam from ripe peaches and plums. I usually roll the compote into small jars and make it concentrated.

Tomatoes come from Peru, where the climate is very hot and dry. How to provide native conditions for tomatoes in our climate? For example, I grow them in open ground, and the summers are cool and it rains very often. At the same time, I want the bush to bear fruit until the fall and produce fruit, as they write on the bag of seeds - 10 kg per bush. In order to provide this southerner with comfortable conditions and, accordingly, a large harvest for himself, you need to be able to correctly form the bush.

Quite often, gardeners want to get the plants they like without special expenses. The first thing that comes to mind in such cases is cuttings. What if you are a beginner or a “lazy” gardener? Or do you come to your summer cottage only on weekends, and only every other time, and still want to relax there? Then the idea with cuttings may not succeed. Why not give nature the opportunity to do almost all the work for us - propagate our favorite plants by layering?

Pilaf with bulgur - very aromatic, crumbly, so tasty that you’ll just lick your fingers! For this recipe you will need coarse-grained or large bulgur; “Bulgur for pilaf” is also available on sale. These are not varieties of wheat, but types of bulgur, in which only the grinding fractions differ. Whole grains, peeled and unpolished bulgur are also suitable for the recipe. The last type is the most useful; it is often used in diet recipes.

My strawberry beds have been around for ten years. Naturally, I update the bushes. Previously, when May and June were dry, I took two buckets of delicious berries and another half a bucket of berries covered with gray rot from my “plantation.” If the beginning of summer was rainy, then I got two buckets of gray rot and only half a bucket of ripe strawberries. It's a shame to share the harvest with some rot! I started an attack on this bullshit. So, step by step - why my strawberries never get gray rot.

Among begonias there are many plants that can be grown indoors. But only one has become truly popular - winter begonia from the Elatior group, which is often confused with the species high begonia. Begonia Elatior is grown mainly as an annual, and completely in vain. The magnificent palette of flower colors and the ability to bloom almost all year round without interruption have no analogues. This is not the most undemanding houseplant.

Sponge cakes with dates are incredibly tasty, slightly crispy on the outside, tender on the inside, and the sweet date in these baked goods becomes like chocolate. This simple dessert for tea is very easy to prepare in 30 minutes (along with baking), the only important thing is to plan everything correctly, so follow my recommendations. To work, you will need silicone, metal or paper muffin tins, since the dough for these biscuits is fluid, and without a mold it spreads.

Before purchasing a plant, read its label. If you live in a basement, then you should not take a plant that needs bright sunlight (unless you are going to buy a special phytolamp).

Secret #2: Define your style

When decorating your home and choosing plants, decide on a style. If you have a tropical interior, then choose tropical plants; cacti are suitable for a southeastern style. Sansevieria (“pike tail”) fits well into a modern interior, and for a rustic style there is nothing better than violets, ropewort (abutilon) or plants with bright leaves, such as royal begonia.

Secret #3: Size matters

Yes, a spreading palm tree looks great in a spacious office, but can you imagine it in your compact living room? Conversely, if you have a large room, then one pot of philodendron is not enough. Also be sure to find out how large the plant can grow indoors.

Secret No. 4: proper care

Read all about caring for each of your plants. If you like to water your flowers every day, then choose plants that like moist soil, such as dwarf papyrus. And if you constantly forget about watering, then stop at succulents, cacti or plants with aerial roots.

A colorful coral bush, evergreen subshrub, Cuban cherry is the name of the indoor nightshade, a plant that grows up to 50 cm in height.

Nightshade can be safely called an original crop, since the small berries that appear after flowering change their color from green to burgundy, and multi-colored “mini tomatoes” simultaneously ripen on one bush. To enjoy the beauty of this shrub, you should know the secrets of caring for it.

Planting nightshade

Nightshade is a perennial shrub that reproduces by both seeds and cuttings. Planting differences affect the number and size of nightshade fruits. If seeds are used for cultivation, the plant grows strong and bears fruit well. If propagated by cuttings, the bush needs time to adapt to the new soil and take root.

1. 1 part peat soil;
2. 3 parts clay soil;
3. A handful of sand and drainage to the bottom.

The mixture is stirred and poured into a pot with a volume of up to 1 liter. Nightshade seeds are distributed at a distance of 2 cm from each other, and pressed into the ground with a stick or match to a depth of 1 cm. The sowing is moistened. The container with nightshade is placed on a well-lit windowsill. But it should be noted that the plant does not like heat. Lighting is necessary for good germination of grains. When the nightshade has already turned green, the plant should be darkened a little.

After 7–10 days, the first shoots appear. Within a week they gain strength and grow to 3–4 cm. When 2 leaves appear, small seedlings are transplanted into separate pots. Having reached 10 cm in height, the nightshade is pinched at the top and the side stems are removed to give the bush a spherical shape.

The conditions for keeping indoor nightshade mean:

1. Temperature conditions;
2. Lighting;
3. Air humidity.

The optimal temperature for growing nightshade in spring and summer is +15, + 25 degrees Celsius. As autumn approaches, the bush will require a decrease in the heat level to + 12, + 15 degrees.

Lighting is an integral part of the process of successfully growing indoor nightshade, which loves light but not heat.

In addition, by the appearance of the nightshade, you can determine what the culture does not like.

1. If nightshade has dropped its leaves, it will pick up light;
2. If it blooms poorly and the fruits are small, there is a lack of heat;
3. Leaves began to curl - excess sunlight;
4. Leaves wither - insufficient watering and hot place;
5. Fruits shrink – there is not enough moisture in the soil;
6. Leaves become discolored - lack of fertilizer;
7. Greens become covered with brown spots - magnesium is needed.

You should also control the level of air humidity. It should not fall below 60%. If the apartment or house is too hot, nightshade should be sprayed regularly or the pot should be placed in a tray with wet pebbles or expanded clay once a week.

Seasonal plant care

There is a lot of advice on the Internet about caring for indoor nightshade, but from personal experience I decided to write rules for seasonal nightshade care. I’ll start with spring, since it is during this period that nightshade is planted or sown and from that moment caring for it begins.

Spring nightshade care:

1. Seedlings need to be watered as soon as the soil dries out;
2. Be sure to cut off the side stems so that the plant grows in the form of a bush and all the energy goes into forming the central trunk and then the inflorescences;
3. The lighting should not be too strong. I recommend placing a flowerpot with a flower on windows facing east or west;
4. No fertilizing is required during the growth period; you just need to loosen the soil a little on the sides of the flowerpot so as not to injure the roots;
5. When the nightshade begins to bloom, carefully transfer the dust from one flower to another using a cotton swab or brush. This action will help achieve a better harvest.
6. If the plant is several years old, we transplant it into a new container with an admixture of turf soil.

Summer plant care:

1. It is necessary to take the flower out into the open air. You can go to the balcony, avoiding direct sunlight;
2. Avoid drafts;
3. Abundant watering as the soil dries out;
4. Feed the plant once every 2 weeks with special liquid fertilizers such as “Rainbow”, “Ideal” or mixtures of useful microelements for tomatoes.
5. Daily morning or evening spraying of leaves.

Autumn and winter care

1. As winter approaches, it is worth reducing watering, since October - February is a dormant period. But you shouldn’t stop moisturizing. It is necessary to water once every 10 days only with soft water without chlorine.
2. Place the pot with nightshade in a cool place, maintain high air humidity and lighting;
3. Once a week, provide an influx of fresh air by ventilating the room with the plant;
4. If there are non-flowering shoots on the bush, they should be cut off;
5. At the end of February, when nightshade begins to “come to life,” it is worth increasing the amount of watering and starting to gradually spray the crop.

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or scary secrets of caring for house plants

My neighbor on the first floor has not a window, but a greenhouse... I admire it all the time. Violets, geraniums... the simplest flowers and bloom all the time. I didn't always succeed until recently.

Has this ever happened to you - you buy a gorgeous flower in a store or nursery, bring it home... beauty, it blooms so profusely, the foliage is bright, thick, you can’t stop looking at it.

Quite a bit of time passes (sometimes a couple of weeks...), but the flowers have all fallen off, the leaves have turned pale, it can get worse, the plant dies.

This has happened to me more than once. Especially with blooming ones.

And you seem to be doing everything right, and taking care of it as it should, and replanting it immediately into normal soil, but nothing helps.

It’s simple, where do the flowers come from in the stores? That's right, often from Holland, or from Europe. What is used for transportation? That's right - peat. How are they fed? Just pure stimulants, which we have never heard of or seen before... Well, and also the feeding regime... there are many nuances. And so we bring home such a “drug addict” and put him on a “starvation” ration. That is, we take care as usual. And that's it, the end of the flower.

I thought about it and went to my neighbor. She told me a lot of new and old forgotten things. But I understood the main thing. Don’t be lazy and live and learn.

Now I have my own secrets and my grandmother’s old ones are remembered.

✔And here is my first secret – purchase adapted flowers. With neighbors, in markets, at exhibitions where collectors display their treasures. Take cuttings, sprouts, seeds from them... And then you will be happy.

And yet, if I do buy a flower in a store, then, if possible, I try to immediately take a shoot or divide it when replanting, if possible. Then there is hope that your favorite flower will still remain with you.

Well, okay, I think many of you know about this. Here are the following secrets. I didn’t come up with them myself, I found them online and learned them from a neighbor. I use almost everything.

Everyone understands that flowers not only need to be watered, but also fed. We don’t live on the same water, we don’t forget to have lunch. And they also love to eat.

✔ Everyone loves flowers sugar, the most common. I usually dilute 0.5 tbsp. spoons of sugar in 0.5 liters of water, and sometimes I simply sprinkle sugar on the ground in a flower pot, and then water it.

This feeding should be done once a month,

You can also just buy glucose at the pharmacy (plants need this). I dilute one tablet per liter of water. This composition can not only be watered, but also sprayed . they will say “thank you.” Also no more than once a month.

Ficus and cacti especially love sugar.

And if there is not enough light, especially in winter, when the sun does not come often and plants lack ultraviolet radiation, sugar is beneficial for all the flowers in the house.

✔Castor oil gives a very good effect for flowering ones. You can buy it at any pharmacy. For 1 hour spoon of castor oil - 1 liter of water. During the bud setting period, water it a couple of times with this solution.

✔It's autumn now, citrus and pomegranate it's time. Did you guess it? We make an infusion - take the peels of pomegranates and any citrus fruits, chop them and pour boiling water over them and leave for a day. Then we remove the crusts, filter, add this solution to a liter and you can water it.

✔ Aspirin. Pills. It was a revelation for me. I didn’t know before that it had such a good effect. The plants in my house have practically stopped getting sick.

✔Diluted aloe juice . Not only can we treat ourselves with it, but it can also be used to fertilize plants. You need to dilute one teaspoon of juice in one and a half liters of water.

✔Tooth powder . I always have it at home. And it is good for teeth. And good for plants.

You need to take 3 tbsp. spoons of powder, 3 tbsp. spoons of wood ash (in summer I bonfire collected), and one tbsp. a spoonful of copper sulfate, all this for 1 liter of water. There is no need to insist, you can water it right away.

✔Sometimes I use this for watering flowers water in which the cereals were washed. They say there is iron, silicon and phosphorus... And what’s not there. I’m not a chemist, I don’t know for sure, but I water it.

✔Soda. I use it for spraying. This is a prevention against . My grandmother taught me this. Since then I have been using her experience.

✔ My grandmother also regularly watered her geraniums, gloxinias, ficus, hibiscus and her favorite violets meat and milk water once a year.

In the spring, when transplanting plants into the ground, I always added used and dried tea leaves , and also often coffee grounds . We had never heard of any ready-made fertilizers at that time. There were no pests. We didn't even know they existed. But what beautiful, ever-blooming plants stood on the windows!!!

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And one more observation. Sometimes I visit a friend at work. She works as an accountant, their staff is mostly women. I'm always amazed at the flowers they have in their office. The geranium blooms all the time, no matter how I come. The Tradescantia stands on the closet - it has grown almost to the floor, it is lush, the leaves are juicy, huge...

Well, they drink tea at work, naturally. And you have to go wash the cups, leave the office... in general, the leftover tea is always in the flower pots. There's coffee leftovers, sugar, probably, too...

Well, draw your own conclusions...

✔Zola. I make it myself and saw it at my neighbor’s. It turns out very well, I especially like Saintpaulias. Pour about two fingers' worth of ash into a three-liter jar, pour boiling water to the top of the jar, let it sit for two days. And that's it, you can spill it.

✔ Banana peel . Don't throw it away, it is rich in potassium, magnesium and phosphorus and can be used when replanting plants. I recently transplanted my ficus this way. On top of the drainage layer I laid a layer of finely chopped or minced banana peels, and then the soil.

I use that too. I have a whole story about her . Read at your leisure.

These are the secrets I use. Well, do you like my Saintpaulias, and do you like the orange double hibiscus, grown from cuttings? And the sorrel tree in the very last photo is blooming - such delicate flowers.