Quite a long time without any gardening blog, meeting today, said some of the new common issues. "All the contents are original, reproduced please specify source ~"
For general exchange of Twitter growing experience, meet many TX to ask, like what is poured with water? What does top mean? Fertilization effect and so on. Indeed, some questions of 140 words can not explain, so write carefully blog is still very necessary.
Today will talk for 5 Tip: too much watering, lack of water, to spank, arrange potted plants are located, and to fertilize the cooking pot.
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1, overwatering:
Novice is probably the most difficult issues in General watered. When I started kind of thing is the same, always afraid it s, for a while to see if it is dry, isn't it time to add some water. Might to water twice a day is not enough, seeing which plant Guide says that varieties need adequate water, they believed that water to ground water. Do not know if you have a familiar feel? Gardening tips for beginners 5
In fact, water is not a quantifiable things. I still remember the famous quote: 90% new kind of thing, are pouring s instead of s. S in this case, also, first talk about how improper watering.
For different plants, watering norms differ, this law only the vanilla water (soil for vegetables because they are different, can not be generalized) is: do not pour. Means do not water if the soil does not dry, then almost all excess water before running out of the soil, and then poured water. But the dry and the wet, you need experience to grasp, neither water in slightly dry, nor completely dry after water.
This is an expression of the soil completely dry, is the leaves droop, watering the leaves will recover within a short time after the flooding water. Before this stage water slowly figured would experience drops ~
Here taught a good method, is I has been using of, is "weighed basin method", pot in poured permeable of when you weighed about pot of weight, then should is is heavy of (if you of feel not too good, that also can using kitchen scales, haha), then held back wants to watering of hand, in a two days zhihou see soil table color variable light sent dry Shi, with finger along basin along vertical plug buried in the, if feel are is dry of, then remember again weighed about pot, remember this feel or is weight, yihou on according to this to watering's, Skill, after fire, you know that is not the watering time.
So the watering is not energy into "watered a few days", imagine if continuous cloudy or air humidity is very large, it evaporates very slowly, if you still follow the dogmas of the fixed number of days to water, will cause a flood condition.
If excess water can lead to poor soil aeration, root rot--because the roots need to breathe. There is a pest, if the soil is too wet, will increase the probability of the spread of germs, while underground pests can also occur, such as the nematode is a typical pest because soil moisture emanating from the General Assembly. I was pouring water twice a day, did not take long for Earth to appear translucent soft wiggling worms, although very small, but really disgusting. And that was 2 years ago, but really feel sick at the thought. At first I also ventured out to try worm, but then I saw almost all the Earth is that they drill to drill immediately, chest tightness, shortness of dizziness, no way, the first species of herbs so had to throw away.
Why don't you stay? Along with their appearance, small black flies will also show traces, without timely treatment, else they will be little black fly with nematode eggs continue to scourge the other pots of soil. But growing your own food cannot be chemicals, and organic syrup or own insecticidal effect of organic syrup not so fast, and irrigation and soil concentrations which will affect the normal development of the root system, too low a concentration equivalent to the already wet soil and further aggravation. So, to other flowers and plants health, will have to sacrifice part of it.
Too much watering after talking to 2, also said the problem of water shortage, first watering too much of this problem, though not as common, but also pretty universal, especially in water does not pour and mix clay Bowl in two ways.
Too little water there are four words to describe: "pouring water". Once watered, will pour into the pot bottom stream water, watered and not only pouring half on half-wet, half dry, so that roots will still be dehydrated. Water the right way is: water in a pot slowly and evenly to leaking out of bottom, about 3 minutes, Tory gathering at the end of the water drained.
But it also needs to pay attention to a problem, that is, if the soil is dry peat, it may top watering, here comes out. This soil has been fully wet it? No, it is parched peat soil, not water.
There are two reasons for this:
1, for a long time I haven't watered
2, when mixed with soil not mix wet and then add the pot
After the TX-mixed soil with a good soil, into the pot and then pour the wet. This can easily lead to soil did not get soaking wet, very likely is the soil surface is wet, but you dig deeply, and pots are dry, this is common cause runt seedling after germination, or transplanting plants recently, growth has been slow, due to insufficient moisture is uneven. The best solution is good even mix wet, and then loaded into the pot, let it bottom out excess water, then pass with soil.
Then if you have the problem of dry to do, have a good idea is "bidet" is a container larger than flower pot (hopefully looking for disused), inside-more water by putting no more than pot after pot of basins along the better, or soil will drift out. It took a half hour to an hour, you lift the pot to try again, you will find, because the principle of communicating vessel (haha, science students pass), the water will be inhaled slowly from the bottom pot, and then completely infiltrated peat when weight is the weight of pots full of water, and later in the case referred to in article watering plants can properly absorb the ~
3, to spank.
This cannot be of any help "ease" because I also have a complex, but is now fully without such entanglements, as food or commodity at a time if you need vanilla, my removal of the top part, which naturally help vanilla top, also supply kitchen and daily life.
So I can only say, if you plant herbs, you should plan well seeded varieties in use in your life, it won't just slowly overcome. Topping for vanilla itself, especially for potted herbs are essential, if not top, then it would be a super tall, vanilla leaf not only low yields, high altitude, causing it to lodging.
Yiqian see had useful chopsticks or gardening bracket to fixed vanilla main stems of, wants to said, actually this is not playing top of results, solution of approach is, cruel on with soil Shang 3 on really leaves at "clicks" about, had days on will has buds long out, a grain seed sent has a grain bud, can playing top out a whole basin of vanilla, leaves inexhaustible. So the more willing, more rewarding.
Of course, in addition to be used outside, you can also be used for cutting hydroponic or soil directly (new direct soil cutting is not recommended), then there will be a new seedling propagation of out. Don't waste Ah, uses way more ~
4, arranging placement of plants
Light and on progress towards the issue, everyone has some concept. But in the same Sun, put together, why then is uneven distribution of sunlight, just need to find perspective.
Sometimes, due to the nature of plant relationships, even while sowing seeds with the passage of time, seedlings grow up, some may be very high, and some are so small, such as tomato and cherry radishes, cherry radishes height is no more than a tomato? Then it may produce tomatoes in pots placed side-by-side blocking the cherry radishes were basking in the Sun, especially the terrace cultivation, if you plant cover in front of the rear, the rear is never going to direct sunlight. So check back often if your flower pots arranged scientific plant under the same light requirement, according to the arrangement from low to high, in order to ensure harmony and share the same sun.
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5, to fertilize the vanilla
In the last small detail in an herb garden you can have, but often there is TX asked me, can you put rice water, can put eggshells and the like.
I want to say, do not you put all kinds of clean potting soil and some have no kitchen, plants cannot absorb.
If you really want to use the kitchen, must be complete and long process of composting, the whole process is about a year or so. To allow accumulation of food through fermentation and microorganisms into organic fertilizers. It's a good idea, but it is not suitable for balcony use, usually their own composting is more suitable for a family, planting range is very large, then using commercially available organic fertilizers are not cost-effective in terms of cost, so you can consider their own composting.
But for Flex or just trying to grow out on the balcony, in fact, did not have its own need for composting, smell a bit because it is naturally (naturally occurring in the fermentation process), especially for indoor or semi-more suitable for indoor living environment. I think commercially available organic fertilizers full balcony gardening vanilla used enough, nor are costs, the effect is very good, there is no environmental pollution problems.
TX will often ask, why perfect cherry blossom your potted herbs and vegetables and planted big, because in many people's mind that pot should be small and possibly malnutrition, so it will be a lot of people will question the pot of vegetables.
This, of course, and fertilizer has a close relationship, and my methods are "diligent application of thin fertilizers." Because the relationship is potted, so the soil is not too strong for fertility of organic fertilizers, general instructions always write "placed under the soil", black chicken, in particular oil and vinegar cake due to the great fertility, so easily fertilizer burn. Fertilizer injury are: smooth leaves, suddenly a small bump, or leaf deformity.
How to make powerful soil fertility, without burning it? Since the method I use is: organic fertilizers (black chicken, oil and vinegar cake) into the watering can, soaked in water, fertilizing the water rather than directly on the fertilizer in the soil.
This inspiration from Yu farmers Uncle poured manure water (haha, don't too nausea), actually effect really of is good, especially on vegetables for, because basin soil after all compared barren, nutrient easy because watering water of outflow and loss off, for vanilla for barren is fragrance can more thick (in zhiqian of post introduced had pot vanilla actually also need normal of nutrient supply), but vegetables on very need organic fertilizer of moist.
