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Guidelines for renewing the land of your plants (II)
We share the second part of this proposal, which we are addressing the issue of how to improve and renew the land where your plants grow. In the previous post, share general tips, valid even for land plants in full.
Renew the land where your plants grow
For today, we focus attention on those individuals that are planted in pots. A good time to renew the earth, could be the pot to make a change, but not necessarily must have received at that time.
Crops in pots, as we see in the image of flickr.com, are those who need more care, such as give them a tent surface every fortnight as a sideline to improve soil porosity. The edging of the pot and garden is generally a good idea to put a lot of sand.
Measuring just for a normal porous substrate is a ¼ of sand, while in clay soils ideal ratio is ½ ½ part sand each piece of land.
Low fertility is one of the problems that have many substrates, therefore, add humus or hangover is another effective remedy to increase the nutrients in beds and pots. Apply these tips that will give more life and health for your plants in pots or already live on land, in the garden.
Guidelines for renewing the land of your plants
When you notice that your plants lose vigor, are not blooming or radiant must be vigilant and act immediately. Many times we say “our plants are sad, but not enough to express it. They may need a change of land.
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Here you commented the findings necessary to undertake this task.
Over time the land of lost wealth pots and porosity, this harms the growth of plants, because the substrate prevents excessively tight root development and therefore the search for water and nutrients.
For this, if you add a portion of garden soil (ground leaves) and other river as the tide will greatly improve the quality of the land. If the plant requires a more acidic pine needles used as de-compressor.
In the case of azaleas and jasmine Cape, known as the superacid, you’d better resort to mob to increase the porosity of the substrate. The advantage of the unpacking is that in addition to give porosity to the plant, also improve the drainage preventing water retention which eventually rot the plant.