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Did you cook boiled egg for your breakfast, never throw the water from the pot. Let it cool and use it to water your plants. The boiled water have calcium which comes from the egg shells and that is very healthy for your plants.

With closely potted plants, it can happen that water flows when watering them.This can be prevented with this trick. Place a funnel into the soil and carefully pour the water in there.Thus the water flows only on that part and directly into the plants roots.

Saving dried plants

June 10th, 2008

It’s summer and some of my plants are already almost dry. What I do is to deep the whole plant top in a big pail and let it stay there for a long. When there will be no moreĀ  bubbles coming out, that’s the sign that the plant soil have absorb enough water. Then you [...]

Shiny leaf

May 26th, 2008

I have this indoor plant for a long years already and still looks fresh and young. I always make the leaves shiny by rubbing a soft cloth with drops of condensmilk.