TREATMENT OF POT PLANTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 810, 2 November 1929, Page 32

TREATMENT OF POT PLANTS

Before going on holiday, you generally spend a few uncomfortable minutes wondering how your room and conservatory plants are going to fare during your absence. How are they going to be supplied with water. It is, of course, essential that some provision be made for them, otherwise when you return you will find that they are seriously exhausted, maybe dead. If you cannot hand over your plants to the care of some generous friend or long-suffering relation, you will find the following hints useful. The day before you go away, give each of your plants a soaking with water, immersing the pot to its rim in a bucket. Having done that, select a shady, sheltered position in the garden, and sink the pot plants to the rims in the soil there. This “holiday” will be for you. will be just as good for them as yours Alternatively, if your garden is so full that you have no room ,for the pot plants, stand them ifi a tin bath, and pack damp moss all round them and over the soil. Put the bath in the shade somewhere, or in a cool position in the conservatory. The soil will receive moisture from the moss, and the plants will thus be kept in good condition. If you are going away for a short time only, it will be Sufficient to give the plants a good watering, and then to place damp moss on the soil in the pots. This will prevent any drying out of the soil through evapopation.