The Plant Notebook

When to practice: Generally during September / Early October Autumn is here signalling for us to prepare for shorter light periods and cooler nights. TOOLS you might need Leaf dusting gloves, bucket of water, snips, waste collecting vessel or compost pot. Quick Jobs 1. If you haven’t done so already this is the time to stop your plant feed. 2. Remove any heavily wilted and yellowed leaves. Before you start snipping away, try gently pulling on the leaves first. Some leaves

Yellowing, stiff, dry leaves crunchy to the touch with soil coming away from the pot. What to do? Remove damaged leaves, submerge your pot entirely under water and keep it there until air bubbles will stop coming out. Bubbles is an indication of water rushing into all the dry cracks of the root ball, watering the plant thoroughly. Why this happens? Water is how roots deliver nutrients and keep cells turgid. Without water, cells experience plasmolysis and shrink, presenting yo

When to practice: Generally during June / July / August when the risk of fluctuating spring temperatures has passed. Aside of pollination, seed dispersal, influencing weather and ocean currents wind is also a kind of personal trainer for your plants. It helps plants to build stronger stems/branches. All this swaying causes plants to release a hormone called an auxin which stimulates the growth of supporting cells. Lack of this hormone makes plants more susceptible to damage.

Discover how over-applying chemicals weakens plants and how organic houseplant food and organic liquid seaweed can help build resilience especially in your potted plants.

This time quick jobs for foliar and aerial root feed and longer jobs refreshing soil for the same pot or repotting your plants into fresh soil.

When to practice: Generally during March / April After bedrooms, living rooms are next in accumulating the most human and animal hair, our dead skin cells, textile and paper fibres, minerals, plant pollen and any other particles found in our environment. Since in winter we don’t open our windows as much it all settles on surfaces and plant leaves. We hoover our floors and wipe our tables, but plant leaves are often left untouched. All this settled dust blocks the light, maki