Growing your own plants can be one of the most rewarding experiences if you have a green thumb… or even a black thumb.
This guide will get you started with giving your plants the best start, to allow them to blossom to their full potential.
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Lesson 1: They’re Alive!You may have realized that plants are living things. Yup, just like people and animals and bugs, they start out as babies and grow into adults. They reproduce. They can suffer from diseases. They grow old and die.
This is true of the plants you see as you walk down the street, ones you buy at the garden store, and those you grow from seeds.
I told you this would be easy!
Why is this important? Well, if you can imagine yourself as your plant for a moment, this can actually help to improve your chances of keeping it alive.
Let’s say you went to the store and bought a variety that you think will look nice in your house. It’s a cute green thing with a flower of some sort.
What should you do?
From the time you decide to purchase it, begin to really think of it as another living thing. To make this a little easier, try to think of it as a new friend, or a pet.
One thing you could try would be to say hello to it, and welcome it into your home. Plants appreciate attention just like any other living thing.
The second thing you could do is to try to think like a plant. Imagine for a moment that you are the little green thing with the flower. What would you like?
We’ll get into the very advanced scientific terms dirt, water, and sun later on. For now, we are concerned with even more basic things, like
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