What's up everyone? Welcome back to the podcast Epic Gardening.com

podcast edition. My name is Kevin. I am talking about desk plants or office

plants which are really just similar to house plants to be honest.

But once I got into them, my little office space that I work from became a lot more vibrant and

a lot more fun to work in. So I've got some flowers, I've got some succulents,

I got some houseplants going on, and I bring a little nature back into my life even when I'm working

at the computer, which is a pretty important thing, at least for my own mental health just feels really good and as an added

bonus they actually can improve your air quality on a small scale a lot of people like to say oh it's it's a

drastic transformation these indoor house plants that can improve your air

quality well I've not found that to be the case I think that they do improve it slightly but not really enough for our brains to actually

notice and care about. But let's go into how to care for these. It's important because you don't want

to buy something and have it die on you, but it's really not that hard.

If you choose the right plants, you will be

really not having to do much at all to care for them.

So the biggest problem that people will run into here is that they just don't know how to water correctly.

And so most people will either water way too much or not enough. So let's talk about way too much. First,

what you want to do is water slowly with water that will match the average temperature so just like room

temperature water and then make sure that you water only until the drainage

hole starts to drip a little bit, don't over water,

and then do not water if the soil is damp to about one inch or so.

So it should be dry about an inch down if you want to even consider watering.

And the reason why overwatering is such a big problem with house plants is because, you know,

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