Basic Houseplant Mistakes
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
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🗓️ 17 March 2018
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Today is episode two of seven with Jane Perrone of On The Ledge podcast. She's a houseplant expert and in today's show will drop some knowledge about how to best care for your little plant babies!
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? Welcome back to day two with Jane Perron of on the ledge. Today we are talking about some basic house plant care |
| 0:08.9 | Some things you should do some things you shouldn't do, common mistakes that people make. |
| 0:13.2 | And I think this is an important episode because if you're caring for house plants, |
| 0:16.9 | and that's the first time you've ever cared for any plant, |
| 0:19.7 | whether that be succulents or edibles, anything like that, a lot of the times, if that's your first experience with growing anything, you really don't know a lot of those fundamental principles that help keep plants alive and help them thrive. And so today we're going to go over just some of the things that you need to be |
| 0:34.5 | careful of especially some of the most common things that people do wrong when it |
| 0:39.5 | comes to house plants and if you've heard my episodes on certain houseplants, you might have a sense of what these |
| 0:45.3 | are already, but I think it's good to hear from a true houseplant expert as well. So we're going to get into this |
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| 1:13.3 | interesting to you and we're gonna go ahead and get into the episode with Jane Perron. |
| 1:18.3 | One of the biggest problems I think with houseplants is people seem to grow houseplants when they're not into other types of gardening, right? |
| 1:26.1 | And of course there's nothing wrong with that. |
| 1:27.5 | Whatever gets someone started growing any type of plant I'm all for, but what that usually |
| 1:32.4 | ends up meaning is that they don't have a lot of base knowledge |
| 1:35.6 | when it comes to plants, and so they don't know how to troubleshoot, what's going wrong, |
| 1:40.8 | I mean the amount of comments I get about browning plants or crispy plants or |
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