What's up everyone? Welcome back to the podcast. So today we're going to answer a bit of gardening terminology just a phrase that people will use

Seemingly

Assuming everyone knows what they're talking about and a lot of people don't know what they're talking

about. So this is the phrase well established. So if you're growing a plant a lot of the

times on the back of a plant label it's going to tell you to do something once that plant is well

established but the question then becomes well what is it well established

actually mean how do we know that a plant is established it's sort of a weird phrase to use,

especially because no one really has ever explained it,

at least not to me personally.

And so the best way to think about this

is through a metaphor.

At a certain point in time you started a new job or

you got to school, you went to college and it took a little bit of time for you to

get settled in, start to thrive, and actually do well.

And that's the point at which you would be considered

well established, right?

And so it's the same idea in plants.

Plants need you to help them out at the beginning of their lives, right?

You need to provide them light, nutrients, water, air, soil, to let them develop those root systems,

let them get their vegetation grown, and once they have

become established, which is the word that we're trying to define here, it just

means that they need a lot less care from you.

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