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Time to answer a few
more of your timely emailed gardening questions, and one that I get a lot of
this time of the year, is how do I know when to water my indoor plants?
Watering indoor plants,
especially over the winter can be a little tricky, especially since most
plants are in a resting period and require less water. So as a general
rule, for most indoor plants, the best guideline is to water well, making
sure the soil is thoroughly saturated, and then do not water again until the
soil gets close to being dried out. Do not water on a scheduled basis…water
as needed. Feel the soil, stick your finger down in the soil, watch the
plant for signs of wilting…and for those larger pots, if you can’t tell
whether it’s dry or not, pick up a soil moisture meter at your local garden
store. Then you’ll know for sure.
It won’t be long until
we’ll be applying pre emergent herbicides to help stop those weed seeds from
germinating in our landscape and flower beds. So another question I’m
getting now, is whether or not there is a natural or organic alternative to
the synthetic pre emergents?
There is, and it’s
actually been around for several years. It’s called “Corn Gluten”…corn
gluten is a by-product of processing corn, and was by chance, found to
prevent sprouting seeds of many weeds from developing roots, as well as
having about 7-10 percent nitrogen. So it feeds and stops several species
of weed seeds from growing.
Corn gluten can be used
in the lawn, landscape, flower beds, garden, groundcovers…and the cool
thing…it’s an all natural product. |
