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H: Welcome to the office of redundancy office. Phil: If you do any one thing, I would say
water. Just make sure you are watering properly, which is not too much and not too little.
I think so many problems, especially with indoor container plants is either over or
under watering. So just stick your finger into the soil, see how wet it is down an inch
down in there and then if it’s not wet enough, you water it and then you’re good to go.
Water it. H: Great. Now with herb pots, we can’t really
generalize and say you should water once a week or three times a week because it’s
going to entirely depend on the location of the plants, how much sun they’re getting,
what type of pot they’re in, humidity in your house, these sorts of things.
Phil: Sometimes it will dry – on top and you’ll think you have to water, so if you
put it down in there just a little bit, you’ll see if it’s wet inside. But we do want to
dry out a little bit – just because if it stays wet all the time, there’s maybe not
enough air in there or it’s easier for disease to kind of get hold. So if you let it dry
it a little bit and then water. H: As you get more used to looking at your
plants, you’ll be able to develop a bit of a green thumb and maybe even tell by the
leaves how they love to see if the plants need water.
Phil: Hopefully, it doesn’t get to the point where they are totally wet you know.
H: That’s true, yeah. Phil: And that’s a bit --. So we have these
containers, these little trays underneath the pot, I think you can probably see them
and they are going to catch the water. You can certainly use your tap water but if you
happen to have like rain water or – I actually got this water from a pond nearby, it’s
going to be very – it’s going to have a lot of nutrition in it, a lot of microorganisms
as long as it’s from a clean pond and it’s nice to do that instead of a chlorine water
from a tap or if you can de-chlorinate it somehow, that’s just a bonus step, you don’t
have to do that, but -- H: Make sure that the water is coming out
of the drainage holes in the bottom of the pot, that way you know you’re really soaking
the root ball. If the water isn’t coming out of the bottom of the pot, perhaps you
need to give a little bit more. Phil: I can see into your washroom from my
washroom. Container Gardening Series - How To Water
Your Containers