How to Bring Your Plants Indoors for the Winter

Growing Joy with Plants - Wellness Rooted in Nature, Houseplants, Gardening and Plant Care

Maria Failla- Happy Plant Lady and Author of Growing Joy: The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness

Education, How To, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Home & Garden, Leisure

4.8 • 883 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The days are getting shorter and the temperatures are dropping, how do our plants adjust to this change? For us houseplant parents, this signals that it's time to start transitioning our outdoor summer plants back indoors. While it may seem simple to just pick up your plant pots and haul them inside, there are important steps to follow for a smooth transition.

In this solo episode, I'll walk you through the entire process of bringing your houseplants indoors in 3 phases: Preparation, Transition, and Maintenance. Follow these 7 steps and you'll have healthy plants that continue thriving inside all winter long!

In this episode, we learn:

[03:23] Why it's essential to bring your plants indoors during the winter
[05:54] Bringing plants indoors requires three distinct stages: preparation, transition, and maintenance
[06:15] #1 Check your plants thoroughly for pests
[07:36] How to get rid of the pests
[08:59] #2 Prune or trim any abnormal or damaged leaves
[10:15] #3 Check the soil and repot if necessary
[11:27] Where can you get high-quality soil and plant food for the fall gardening season?
[13:00] Why Kamili Bell Hill’s ‘Happy Plant, Happy You’ is your next best plant care reference
[14:26] #4 Bring your plants indoors slowly or gradually
[15:50] #5 Choose the best location in your home for your recently sun-exposed plants
[17:24] #6 Quarantine your plants and check for pests weekly
[18:55] #7 Adjust watering and fertilizer for indoor conditions

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For a step-by-step guide on winter plant prep,

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Fall is by far my most favorite season and for us plant enthusiasts who live in regions that actually get to experience all four seasons,
0:08.0	the crisp fall air on our skin and immediate desire to make everything cozy is not only a fun cue that fall is coming
0:16.7	winter is coming it's time to prepare to hibernate it's also an important cue to begin to
0:21.8	prepare to bring any house plant that has
0:24.0	summered outside in the long sun-soaked days to come back inside for winter to turn
0:29.7	our homes into the lush green oasis as the ground is covered in snow. You might think
0:36.2	that this process of bringing plants indoors after a summer outside is as
0:40.4	simple as picking up the pots on your porch and bringing them indoors, but there are several steps,
0:45.7	seven in particular, that I'm going to recommend you follow this season to ensure that your
0:51.2	plants remain happy and healthy in this transition.
0:54.0	Welcome back.
0:55.0	Welcome to the Growing Joy Podcast, where we not only learn how to care for plants successfully,
1:01.0	but how to simply and affordably use our plant babies to cultivate more joy in our lives.
1:06.0	I'm Maria, author of Growing Joy, The Plant Lovers Guide to Cultivating Happiness,
1:10.0	speaker, podcaster, and most importantly, an epic plant killer turned happy plant lady.
1:16.0	On growing joy, you'll find conversations about plant care, plant community, and wellness through the lens of plants.
1:23.2	Plant care is self-care on growing joy, the podcast.
1:27.9	Hello, my plant friends, I hope you've had beautifully planty weeks as per usual.
1:32.2	If you're new here, welcome, welcome home. I'm your
1:35.6	host Maria Faella and I am obsessed with helping everybody in this community,
1:40.9	care for plants successfully, and cultivate joy because of it.
1:43.8	I think plant care is an amazing form of self-care and a fabulous wellness tool.
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