How To Stop Killing Your Plants
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
At a new job, Jenna was put in charge of some beautiful plants that are imbued with deep significance to their co-workers. But despite Jenna's best efforts, the plants aren't doing so hot. Can the browning leaves, flopping stems, and dry soil be nursed back to health before it's too late? On this episode, Carvell Wallace brings on Maria Failla, host of the Growing Joy podcast and author of Growing Joy: The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness (and Plants). Maria addresses Jenna and other listeners' questions on the How To! hotline, breaking down plant care basics and offering up practical tips to make growing houseplants fun!
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How To's executive producer is Derek John. Joel Meyer is our senior editor/producer. This episode was produced by Sara McCrea and Rosemary Belson.
Correction, Oct. 9, 2024: This episode originally called Duotone Audio Group a podcast studio. Duotone is a music and sound production company.
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| 0:29.9 | I come in every morning and I say, good morning plants. |
| 0:33.2 | And I talk to them and I say, what do you need for me? |
| 0:36.2 | And I give them water and then they continue to stay brown and have spots on their leaves. |
| 0:41.9 | And I just worry. I worry for them. |
| 0:45.3 | Welcome to how to. I'm Carville Wallace. |
| 0:47.7 | You know, a couple of years ago, I found this great apartment with lots of light for an unbelievably affordable price. |
| 0:53.6 | And a week before I moved in, I had this dream that the apartment was filled with plants. |
| 0:59.0 | Now, before that, I had had an occasional plant here or there, most of which met an unfortunate end. |
| 1:06.0 | But that dream was so vivid to me that I knew right away what I had to do. It was time for me to become |
| 1:13.5 | a plant guy. One plant at a time, all right, maybe sometimes two or three plants at a time, I built |
| 1:19.7 | this tiny little plant empire, ferns and succulents and spider warts and strings of pearls and |
| 1:26.2 | money trees and rescued aloes. |
| 1:28.3 | Whatever money wasn't going to food or my kids was going to plants. |
| 1:32.3 | And I loved them as well as I could. |
| 1:34.3 | And I lost more than a few. |
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