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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Houseplant Watering 101

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Back with Maria Failla of Bloom and Grow, we're talking about houseplant watering and the many ways you can go wrong! Enjoy my friend :) Learn More:  https://www.bloomandgrowradio.com/ https://www.instagram.com/bloomandgrowradio/  Order Field Guide to Urban Gardening My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, will be out May 7, 2019. If you pre-order the book and forward your receipt to kevin@epicgardening.com, I'll send you a free pack of heirloom, organic seeds from one of my favorite seed suppliers! Pre-Order Field Guide to Urban Gardening Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everyone? Kevin from Epic Gardening here. We're back with Maria from

0:05.9

Bloom and Grow radio and yesterday we talked about Light, just basically the

0:11.4

101 of it. You know, what are the best facing windows?

0:15.2

What does bright indirect light really mean? How does it change throughout the seasons?

0:19.6

And today we're tying that to probably the, I guess you could say it's the second most important

0:26.4

element when it comes to plant care because without light really nothing's going to happen.

0:31.0

And that would be water.

0:32.1

And it's probably the one that we both get the most questions on because

0:34.5

watering is just such a tricky element when it comes to plant care, especially as you're in your first

0:40.3

season of growing outdoors or your first couple plants growing indoors. So I figured why not bring Maria on to have

0:46.7

her shed some light on it. I was going to say shed some water but that doesn't make any

0:51.4

sense at all.

0:53.0

Gria, what do we need to know when it comes to watering our plants?

0:57.2

Or like, what are the things people are messing up?

0:59.8

Totally.

1:00.8

And I love that you said this light and watering the 101 you got to get the

1:05.3

101 of those two things down and then you're gonna really set yourself up for

1:08.9

success and when I was still a plant killer there were a lot of things I learned in those first few

1:14.0

months of actually learning how to take care of plants regarding watering that were huge

1:18.2

game-changers for me. So the first thing with indoor plants that I think made a big change for me and my plants is water your plants thoroughly but not necessarily frequently.

1:30.6

So with house plants, the number one cause of house plant death is over watering and I think it's sweet because I think a lot of times it's very well intentioned we get this plant we bring home, we're so excited about it, we want to care

1:44.7

for it, and so we end up like watering it every day. But if you think about these plants in our

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