How to care for indoor flowers? A guide to eco-friendly home gardening
The eco-friendly philosophy of frugality is applied to the fullest in indoor flower care techniques. Let's take a look at how eco-conscious gardeners practice environmentalism in flower growing.
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Eco-friendly home indoor flower care tip one: Watering flowers with leftover tea. Using leftover tea to water flowers not only keeps the soil moist but also adds nutrients such as nitrogen to the plants. However, you should water according to the humidity of the pot, regularly and in measured amounts, rather than pouring leftover tea on whenever you like.
Eco-friendly home indoor flower care tip two: Watering flowers with spoiled milk. After milk spoils, dilute it with water and use it to water flowers; it benefits their growth. But use more water to make it fairly diluted. Unfermented milk should not be used to water flowers, because it produces a large amount of heat during fermentation, which will "burn" the roots (cause root rot).
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Eco-friendly home indoor flower care tip three: Watering flowers with cooled boiled water. Using cooled boiled water to water flowers can make the foliage lush and the blooms vivid, and can promote earlier flowering. If used to water asparagus fern (Asparagus setaceus), it can make the branches and leaves spread horizontally and grow short and dense.
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Eco-friendly home indoor flower care tip four: Watering flowers with warm water. In winter, when the weather is cold and the water is chilly, it is better to water flowers with warm water. It is best to leave the water indoors and water once it is close to room temperature. If you can bring the water temperature to 35°C before watering, so much the better.
Eco-friendly home indoor flower care tip five: Watering flowers with rice-washing water. Regularly using rice-washing water to water flowers such as Aglaia odorata can make the branches and leaves lush and the flower colors vivid.
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Eco-friendly home indoor flower care tip six: Watering flowers when no one is home. If you love growing flowers and will be away from home for ten days or half a month visiting relatives or running errands, there will be no one to water the flowers. In this case, you can fill a plastic bag with water, prick a small hole in the bottom of the bag with a needle, and place it in the flower pot with the small hole against the soil; the water will slowly seep out and moisten the soil. The size of the hole needs to be controlled so that the water does not seep out too quickly. Or place a container full of cool water next to the flower pot and find a wide cloth strip with good water absorption; put one end into the water in the container and bury the other end in the soil of the flower pot. This way, the soil can stay moist for at least about half a month, and the flowers will not wither and die.