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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Growing Houseplants For The First Time

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2017

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today's question comes from Kathleen, who wonders how to get started growing houseplants. We go into lighting, soil, and a few good recommendations. Read more about houseplants on Epic Gardening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What is up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. This is Monday. This is Kevin from

0:06.4

Epic Gardening.com. Go check that site out if you want the coolest gardening tips on the

0:11.4

internet.

0:12.7

Okay, today we're talking about house plants.

0:15.0

The question comes from Kathleen,

0:18.0

who says, how can I set up my room

0:21.9

or my inside space with plants I'm just sort of learning I don't really

0:26.5

know how to set up house plants and it's a great question you know when I first

0:30.5

started getting into gardening it was all about the food for me so

0:34.1

even still to this day most of the stuff I grow is food I've got carrots out there I've got tomatoes

0:39.2

cucumbers etc I got a couple things in my hydroponic systems going, but I've been getting into house plants because I realize that when I go to sleep at night and when I wake up in the morning, I want to be greeted by some green plants in my room.

0:53.1

And so I set up a really cool system,

0:55.3

which you can actually see on my Instagram

0:57.1

if you go check that out.

0:58.0

It's just ad epic gardening.

0:59.8

But for other people, it can be a challenge to get even some houseplants set up.

1:04.8

I have a bunch of friends that will tell me that they're killing their succulents and

1:08.3

they're killing their houseplants and they don't really know what to do.

1:11.2

So today I'm going to run through a few things to keep in mind when you are

1:14.9

setting up your houseplants. The first thing we'll talk about is just how much light a general

1:22.0

houseplant needs. Now different house plants obviously have

1:25.0

different requirements but in general we call them house plants because they can take

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