Pick up little things by the roadside to grow flowers - no root rot and they'll bloom like crazy

Growing flowers with sand - root rot completely gone!

Sometimes when you pass by a construction site, you'll see lots of sand piles. This is great material for mixing into soil.

How to use:

1. Put the sand into clean water, stir and wash it, then use a sieve to filter out the particularly large particles.

2. Soak the sand in potassium permanganate water. After about 20 minutes, pour the water out, spread the sand on the balcony and let it dry.

3. Once dry, mix the sand into the soil to increase the drainage of the flower pot. For flowers that especially can't tolerate waterlogging, like aloe and snake plant (Sansevieria), you can mix in about 40% river sand.

4. Besides mixing into soil, river sand is also a great rooting medium for cuttings. Water the river sand thoroughly, then insert the cuttings you want to propagate, keep it moist, and generally in about 20 days they will take root.

Growing flowers with sawdust - roots become fat and strong!

After renovating, sometimes a lot of sawdust is left over and simply thrown next to the trash can. Actually, sawdust that seems useless can be used to grow flowers!

How to use:

1. If you're just mixing a little into the soil, you can use it directly, but don't use more than 20% of the soil volume. Sawdust ferments relatively slowly, so using a small amount won't cause root burn.

2. If you have a lot of sawdust on hand and want to use it in large amounts, you need to ferment it first. Put the sawdust into a bottle, add clean water, cover it, and leave it in the sun for about 50~60 days, then mix it into the soil before use.

3. Soil containing sawdust has greatly improved drainage, so water won't easily accumulate in the pot, and your flowers won't get root rot!

Growing flowers with earthworm castings - no need to repot for a year!

On mountain slopes under trees, or in green belts, you'll sometimes see these little mud balls that look like "walnuts." These are earthworm castings, and their fertility is quite strong!

How to use:

1. Go outside and collect some earthworm castings. Castings from different soils have different colors - some are earthy yellow, and some are dark brown or black.

2. When repotting flowers, put the earthworm castings into the pot as a base fertilizer. Earthworm castings are easy to absorb, and their fertility is no less than chicken manure. This way, you won't need to fertilize for the next 1~2 years!

3. If you only have a small amount of earthworm castings, you can crush them and sprinkle them directly on the surface of the flower pot. Then when you water, the castings will seep into the soil with the water flow!

Growing flowers with pine bark - breathable, no water accumulation!

Some aged pine bark falls off naturally. Go under a pine tree and pick some up - it's superb for growing flowers at home!

How to use:

1. Find an old unwanted pot, put the pine bark in and boil it in water. This kills fungi and insect eggs in the bark.

2. Take the pine bark out, dry it in the sun, then spread some on the surface of the flower pot, or place a small amount at the bottom of the pot.

3. Flowers grown with pine bark have healthy roots that don't rot. And as the pine bark slowly ferments, it provides gentle fertilizer for the flowers.

Growing flowers with pine needles - the soil becomes so rich it drips oil!

Under pine trees there's always a thick layer of fallen pine needles. If you pick some up and take them home, you'll even save the money on buying nutrient soil!

How to use:

1. Dig up some pine needles under a pine tree. The ones that feel dry and are relatively easy to crumble are best for growing flowers.

2. It's best to disinfect pine needles after taking them home. Scald them with boiling water, then dry them before use. This avoids woodlice or other insect eggs and bacteria in the pine needles.

3. The treated pine needles can be buried in the soil, or sprinkled on the pot surface. For flowers like clivia (Clivia miniata) and Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera) that like fertilizer but fear water accumulation, it's the most suitable!

Growing flowers with willow branches - big white roots grow like crazy!

When watching Journey to the West in the past, Guanyin Bodhisattva had a few willow branches in her jade vase, with the power to nourish all things. Actually, there's a real basis for this - willow branches contain a lot of auxin, which promotes the growth of plants!

How to use:

1. Right now the willow leaves haven't fully unfurled yet, and at this time the willow branches have the highest auxin content.

2. Cut the willow branches into 10 cm small segments, soak them in clean water for 1~2 days, then remove the willow branches and keep the water they soaked in.

3. Soak the cuttings you want to propagate in the willow water. After 4~5 hours, take them out and propagate them normally. The rooting rate of soaked cuttings is greatly improved!

That's all for today's little flower-growing tips.

Ever since I fell in love with growing flowers,

It seems like everything around me is related to flowers,

Do fellow flower lovers feel the same?