Episode 294: cheap or free houseplant care kit essentials
On The Ledge
Jane Perrone
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Raid your kitchen cupboards and you’ll come across all kinds of free stuff you can utilise to take care of your houseplants. Host Jane Perrone explains how everything from wooden chopsticks to clear plastic takeaway boxes, find out how to get your houseplant care kit tooled up for nothing. Plus she suggests a couple of gadgets that are worth splashing the cash for.
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| 0:29.6 | Music What do a wooden kebab stick? |
| 0:48.6 | A pack of paper clips, a plastic takeaway box and an old t-shirt have in common. |
| 0:59.1 | Well, they're all free or super cheap things that I include in my house plant care kit to keep my houseplants healthy. |
| 1:08.5 | That's what I'm going to be discussing in this short but sweet episode. |
| 1:17.0 | My name is Jane Perrone and I am the host of this podcast on The Ledge, your guide to indoor gardening. |
| 1:25.9 | And it's been a lovely few days. I'm loving springtime. |
| 1:30.9 | Oh, my favourite time of year. I spent last weekend at the Morven House Plant Festival, |
| 1:36.0 | part of the Morven Spring Show in the county of Worcestershire here in the UK. And I got the chance |
| 1:42.1 | to meet some listeners. Shout out in particular to Vivian and |
| 1:47.0 | Frank, both of whom came to say hello and were absolutely delightful. I sold a few copies of my book |
| 1:53.9 | and my set of house plant cards and shot the breeze with lots of lovely planty people including Worcester Terrariums, aka Ben Newell, |
| 2:05.2 | who was delightful and I hope to get him on the podcast soon. He was great. |
| 2:09.8 | But without any further ado, on with the business of the show, houseplant tool, |
| 2:13.7 | houseplant toolkits, what do we put in them? Now, I don't like to consider myself an influencer. I'm a bit |
| 2:20.2 | of a de-influencer, actually, in that I'm telling you kind of not to buy stuff most of the time. |
| 2:25.2 | You don't need all of the gubbins that people are trying to push at you for your house plant |
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