Tag: houseplants

All the articles with the tag "houseplants".

• Bottom Watering Plants: When It Helps, When It Hurts

  22 Jun, 2026

  How to bottom water plants, how long to soak, and when it backfires. Houseplants and container veg, the salt-flush rule, and which mixes wick.

• How to Get Rid of Fungus Gnats in Houseplants

  2 Jun, 2026

  Get rid of fungus gnats by drying the substrate breeding layer and killing larvae with Bti or peroxide. Sticky traps alone never work.

• Why Cuttings Need a Node: Roots, Shoots, and the Leaf-Cutting Myth

  27 May, 2026

  Why a cutting needs a node, not just roots: only the meristem makes new shoots. Which plants propagate from a leaf, water vs soil rooting, aerial roots.

• Perched Water Table: What It Is, When It Matters, What Actually Drains a Pot

  Updated: 21 Jul, 2026

  Perched water table mechanics, when a drainage layer helps or harms (Rowe 2025), and what actually drains a pot. Substrate-by-substrate.