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Indoor Gardening

How to Know When to Repot Houseplants

Houseplants are plants raised indoors in spaces like homes, classroom environments, and offices, particularly for beautification and decoration. Ordinary houseplants are generally tropical or semi-tropical epiphytes, cacti, or succulents. They need the correct light levels, soil mixture, moisture, humidity, and temperature to survive easily. To thrive, houseplants need correct-sized pots, proper fertilizer, and the caretaker

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Indoor Gardening

How to Water Houseplants Correctly

When it comes to watering indoor plants, there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. In fact, the most common mistake plant parents make is overwatering. Yes, plants rely on sunlight and water to thrive, but even too much sunlight can be detrimental. To successfully grow plants indoors, one must learn

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Must-Have Indoor Gardening Tools and How to Use Them

To properly take care of a plant inside your home takes more than just leaving it near sunlight and watering it now and again. Indoor plants require a certain level of time and attention, and some could argue they need more attention than plants outside the house. But to tend to indoor plants, you need

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Indoor Gardening

How to Control Houseplant Pests

Your houseplants spend all their time within the comfort of your home, where the temperature, sunlight, and humidity may not be of the best quality. Without optimal conditions, your houseplants become easy prey for unwanted plant pests that maneuver their way into the comfort of your home. Pests don’t have any natural predators indoors, causing

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Indoor Gardening

How to Make Homemade Indoor Potting Mix

There are a few things to consider when thinking about how to make the indoor potting mix. If you use a container to garden indoors, like a concrete container, a terra cotta pot, or a self-watering plastic pot, you will want to place potting mix over regular soil. Soil is better for non-container or landscape

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How To Create an Indoor Moss Pole

Have you been looking for the best indoor moss pole to support your indoor plants? Maybe for your pothos, monstera, philodendron, or other climbing plants? This article’s purpose is to inform you how you can make a phenomenal high-quality indoor moss pole that is better and cheaper than any you will find on the market.

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Indoor Gardening

What is a Cachepot and How to Use it?

A cachepot comes from the French word that literally means to hide a pot. Cachepots cover the plain pots that often come with store-bought plants. This practice of covering unattractive pots has existed since the mid-nineteenth century. You can hide the gardening pot without repotting the plant with a cachepot. Using a cache pot instead

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Indoor Gardening

Learn How to Grow Mushrooms Indoors

Mushrooms are the fruiting body of parasites called fungi. The main portion of the life of mushrooms is in the form of tiny thread-like structures in the wood and soil. These tiny threads are known as mycelium, and they join together to form small designs (pinheads) that grow into a mushroom. These fruiting bodies generate

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How to Grow Catnip Indoors

Catnip, or nepeta cataria, is native to Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and certain parts of China. Catnip plants can grow to be over two feet tall, even indoors. The plant produces a chemical called nepetalactone, responsible for attracting cats. The nepetalactone coats the leaves and stems of the plant. This chemical is why

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How to Help Indoor Plants Survive During the Winter

When colder temperatures hit, that’s usually the cue to prepare any outdoor plants for the winter season. But not as many people know that indoor plants are also susceptible to changes in the seasons. Here are some tips to help indoor plants survive during winter. Regulate Temperature as Much as Possible Colder temperatures outside usually

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Indoor Gardening

How to Know When to Repot Houseplants

Houseplants are plants raised indoors in spaces like homes, classroom environments, and offices, particularly for beautification and decoration. Ordinary houseplants are generally tropical or semi-tropical epiphytes, cacti, or succulents. They need the correct light levels, soil mixture, moisture, humidity, and temperature to survive easily. To thrive, houseplants need correct-sized pots,

Read More »
Indoor Gardening

How to Water Houseplants Correctly

When it comes to watering indoor plants, there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. In fact, the most common mistake plant parents make is overwatering. Yes, plants rely on sunlight and water to thrive, but even too much sunlight can be detrimental. To successfully grow

Read More »
Indoor Gardening

Must-Have Indoor Gardening Tools and How to Use Them

To properly take care of a plant inside your home takes more than just leaving it near sunlight and watering it now and again. Indoor plants require a certain level of time and attention, and some could argue they need more attention than plants outside the house. But to tend

Read More »
Indoor Gardening

How to Control Houseplant Pests

Your houseplants spend all their time within the comfort of your home, where the temperature, sunlight, and humidity may not be of the best quality. Without optimal conditions, your houseplants become easy prey for unwanted plant pests that maneuver their way into the comfort of your home. Pests don’t have

Read More »
Indoor Gardening

How to Make Homemade Indoor Potting Mix

There are a few things to consider when thinking about how to make the indoor potting mix. If you use a container to garden indoors, like a concrete container, a terra cotta pot, or a self-watering plastic pot, you will want to place potting mix over regular soil. Soil is

Read More »
Indoor Gardening

How To Create an Indoor Moss Pole

Have you been looking for the best indoor moss pole to support your indoor plants? Maybe for your pothos, monstera, philodendron, or other climbing plants? This article’s purpose is to inform you how you can make a phenomenal high-quality indoor moss pole that is better and cheaper than any you

Read More »
Indoor Gardening

What is a Cachepot and How to Use it?

A cachepot comes from the French word that literally means to hide a pot. Cachepots cover the plain pots that often come with store-bought plants. This practice of covering unattractive pots has existed since the mid-nineteenth century. You can hide the gardening pot without repotting the plant with a cachepot.

Read More »
Indoor Gardening

Learn How to Grow Mushrooms Indoors

Mushrooms are the fruiting body of parasites called fungi. The main portion of the life of mushrooms is in the form of tiny thread-like structures in the wood and soil. These tiny threads are known as mycelium, and they join together to form small designs (pinheads) that grow into a

Read More »
Indoor Gardening

How to Grow Catnip Indoors

Catnip, or nepeta cataria, is native to Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and certain parts of China. Catnip plants can grow to be over two feet tall, even indoors. The plant produces a chemical called nepetalactone, responsible for attracting cats. The nepetalactone coats the leaves and stems of the

Read More »
Indoor Gardening

How to Help Indoor Plants Survive During the Winter

When colder temperatures hit, that’s usually the cue to prepare any outdoor plants for the winter season. But not as many people know that indoor plants are also susceptible to changes in the seasons. Here are some tips to help indoor plants survive during winter. Regulate Temperature as Much as

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