Bury a stick in the pot with pothos and clivia, and the soil becomes so rich it drips with nutrients, growing nonstop
Add some tea leaves to the soil, and pothos will climb the stairs rapidly!
A couple of days ago, Huahua discovered a flower friend's pothos, hung directly at the stairway entrance to grow. After trailing down, it completely became a striking waterfall, which simply left Huahua stunned!
How to use tea leaves to grow pothos?
1. Previously, a flower friend told Huahua that they had also used tea leaves to grow flowers, but why did the flowers at home all burn to death? It must be because you did not compost them! Tea leaves cannot be used directly to grow flowers; they must be composted before use!
2. Filter the water out of the leftover tea leaves, dry them, and collect them. Then, using the sandwich composting method of 1 layer of garden soil and 1 layer of tea leaves, mix the tea leaves and garden soil together, spray with water to moisten, and seal to ferment.
3. Tea leaves can basically be composted in 2 months. If you want to speed up fermentation, you can also mix some yeast into the soil, and it will basically be composted in only 1 month. Stir the composted tea leaf soil a little, and it is ready to grow flowers!
4. Tea leaves contain potassium fertilizer. Using them to grow flowers can supplement potassium for pothos, making the root system thicker and stronger and the leaves greener and shinier. Although tea leaves are alkaline, as long as only a small amount of tea leaves is mixed in during composting, there is basically no problem!
Poke a corn cob into the soil, and clivia leaves become glossy and shiny!
As the weather turns cool, in less than 1 month, it will be time to repot clivia, so why not hurry and start preparing now? Prepare nutrient soil for the clivia at home, and you can use it directly when repotting!
How to use corn cobs to grow clivia?
1. When you usually buy sweet corn from the supermarket to eat, do not throw away the leftover corn cobs. Taking them home for composting is a great thing! If you are a flower friend in the countryside, the corn cobs left after shelling the corn are best boiled in hot water before use.
2. Chop the collected corn cobs into small pieces, or crush them into fragments with a grinder, put them in a larger flower pot or foam box, add garden soil, mix together to compost soil, and place in the sun to bake. It takes only about 2-3 months to compost into corn cob nutrient soil!
3. The nutrient soil composted from crushed corn cobs is loose and breathable, especially suitable for growing clivia roots. Even if you occasionally water too much, the excess water can quickly drain out, preventing waterlogging and root rot in clivia!
4. If you think composting soil takes too long, you can also cut the corn cobs directly into small sections of about 2-4 cm, place them in the sun to bake, and after the corn cobs are completely dried, burn them with fire, turning the corn cobs into a substance like charcoal.
5. Place the burned black small pieces of corn cobs directly at the bottom of the orchid pot. This can also achieve the purpose of looseness and breathability, so orchids no longer suffer from waterlogging and root rot, and their growth becomes more and more vigorous!
Mix some fruits and vegetables into the soil, and roses burst with buds!
After getting through the hot summer, autumn is once again the time for roses to bloom. If you want the roses at home to bloom quickly in autumn, you need to start preparing compost now!
How to compost with fruits and vegetables?
1. Summer fruits and vegetables rot easily if you are not careful. Since summer temperatures are also high, why not take this time to collect these rotting things and fruit peels for composting?
2. Find a large vat or plastic bucket, throw all these fruits and vegetables into it, then add garden soil dug from outside and mix together. You can use the sandwich composting method: first lay a layer of garden soil at the bottom of the pot, then add a layer of fruits and vegetables, then add soil again, until the flower pot is filled.
3. To prevent attracting insects when composting soil, you can add some insecticide such as imidacloprid to the flower pot, then seal it and place it under the sun to ferment. Basically, it only takes 1 month to compost successfully!
4. After the weather cools down, you can stir the nutrient soil a few times and use it when repotting roses. The composted fruit peel soil is rich in nutrients, which can make roses rapidly produce buds in autumn, so they bloom more and more!