Here are my plant care essentials that I’ll use to keep my houseplants and container garden healthy and happy in 2024. All the products are listed below.
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Sugar Royal https://amzn.to/3UklZES
Power Buds*
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Do I really need 20 different fertilizers for 20 different plants that I grow? I use the same stuff for my indoor plants and for my outdoor container garden! For pest control I rely on… hello everyone welcome to this new video! My plant care products for 2024 have been delivered like
Several weeks ago so it’s about time I open these boxes and get my stuff ready for the season! So in today’s video I want to show you everything that I will use in my container garden in 2024 and right
From the start I’m going to tell you I keep it simple and universal! I use the same stuff for my indoor plants and for my outdoor container garden! So you will notice that my plant care, let’s call it routine, is pretty minimal yet very effective, because as you could see for yourself
I grow healthy and happy plants. And I think that’s also really important to share that and to show that you really don’t need a lot of stuff to grow healthy and happy plants. Cause sometimes you know, we browse the those websites with plant care products and you wonder like do I really need
20 different fertilizers for 20 different plants that I grow? And the answer is – no, all you really need is two fertilizers and the rest is just like some little extra that you may or may not want to try at some point during your gardening journey. So let me show you what is my
Base routine and what are my little extras for this year. Okay so let’s start with this first box, this is actually my base routine, looks like a lot but it’s really not, it’s two fertilizers I just have several bottles of each cause I grow a lot of plants. And all of my plant care products
Are from Plagron, cause it’s been like 8 or 9 years now that I’m balcony gardening and I tested a whole bunch of different fertilizers and then at some point someone recommended Plagron to me and since then I’ve been using Plagron exclusively and I’ve had amazing results with them. And it’s
Been like four years now that I’m recommending their fertilizers to you guys and I’ve heard from a lot of you as well that you also bought them and you also had a great results. All right you guys, so as I said at the beginning all you really need are two fertilizers one “GROW” one “BLOOM” cause
No matter what plants you grow most plants will go through three different phases in their life. First we have the growth phase from the moment the seed germinates all the way until that plant starts to produce flower buds this is the growth phase, then from the moment that plant produces
Flower buds all the way until it produces fruit this is the flowering/fruiting phase and then once the plant is done fruiting when it starts to set seed and when it starts to slowly die back this is the senescence. Most plants in the growth phase will require high doses of nitrogen
Because nitrogen is responsible for healthy growth and for healthy leaf development. And then when plants are in the flowering phase they don’t need as much nitrogen anymore they need a lot of potassium and phosphorus to produce flowers and then to produce fruit. And obviously there are
Some minor differences between what specific plant prefers like for example maybe roses need a little bit different NPK ratio than tomatoes or than hydrangeas or than geraniums but those differences are so insignificant that it’s not really worth to buy a specific fertilizer for those different
Plants unless, let’s say you grow 30 roses and only roses then that makes sense to buy a rose specific fertilizer. But other than that you can really get away with just buying one fertilizer for the growth phase and one fertilizer for the flowering phase. I use this organic line Alga
Grow and Alga Bloom. Basically mineral fertilizers they are immediately absorbed by the plant so if you are not careful you can easily overdose that fertilizer and if you use too much you can burn your plant roots or if you use them too often you can have a buildup of salts in the soil and
This can also be damaging to your plants. Whereas organic fertilizers they are more gentle because they fertilize the soil and then your plants can take up those nutrients as they need them they are also great for soil life because mineral fertilizers they will kill the soil life whereas
Organic fertilizers feed the soil life. And by soil life I mean all of those beneficial bacteria beneficial fungi protozoa and all of those microorganisms that also help your plants thrive. So this is what I use and this is what I would recommend to anyone as a base as a start to your
Plant care routine. Okay and in the second box we have just a couple of extras a few additives, a few boosters, that I find really helpful and particularly useful in my container garden. So the first one is called Power Roots. I swear by this product! I found so many incredible uses for it
Like at least four or five uses for this product. This is meant to help your plants develop healthy root system. You can use just a tiny bit for your seedlings to help them grow healthy root system, you can use it when you transplant plants, because this helps to eliminate the transplant shock but
The two really incredible uses that I found and this product is not even advertised for those things that I’m about to tell you, so this is pretty incredible, because this is based on potassium and vitamins, so you can use it when your plants are under attack,
For example when you have some past or disease problem it’s great to give your plants pottassium booster because potassium is a mineral that makes your plant stronger and tougher so they are less likely to suffer damage caused by disease or by pests. Another use and this is my favorite
Use is for frost resistance potassium helps to strengthen plant tissues, it creates pressure in plant tissues and it lowers the freezing point in plant tissues. So it makes them less likely to suffer frost damage. But it’s really important to apply it regularly so that your plants can build
Up that resistance. One time application won’t do the trick. I start to use it already early fall and I continue to use it all the way until the soil is frozen. So absolutely love it and would recommend it as an addition to any plant care routine. I’m sorry my camera stopped recording
While I was talking about this next product. So let me just quickly repeat a few words that I said. Green Sensation is a very potent potassium and phosphorus booster, this is something that you will use in the flowering phase. To put it simply – it gives that extra kick, so you can use it in
The vegetable garden to increase the yield but you can also use it in your ornamental garden, for your ornamental plants, especially those that are heavy feeders that require a lot of nutrients, plants like geraniums, hydrangeas, roses, clematis, or annual flowers like for example
Petunias those plants that either put on a show or that bloom for the entire season they can really use some extra nutrients. Let me show you a picture of my geraniums hydrangeas and clematis just to give you an idea what this product is capable of doing. As you can see
This is pretty incredible and it makes your plant bloom to their best potential and you don’t need a lot you only need 1 ml per one liter of water this entire bottle will last me for the entire year and they also come in smaller bottles as well. Next we have a teeny tiny bottle of Sugar
Royal this is a really funny product and I’ve experimented a lot with it. I used it and then I didn’t and then I came back and honestly it’s a game changer so this improves the taste and aroma
Of your fruits and vegetables . So how it works – it contains an enhancer that makes your plant produce more resin and resin is what makes your plant sweeter and what makes your plant taste better and smell better and then it has amino acids that improve plant productivity so long
Story short you get more fruits and vegetables and they taste and smell way better. So I like to use it for all those little crops that I grow in my shade garden for my blueberries, alpine strawberries and stuff like that. Okay so normally this is all that I use but this year
There’s one more product that I’m really excited to give a try. This is new on the market and it’s called Power Buds so this is bio stimulant, these are fertilizers, these are additives, this is bio stimulant. This is something that you would use with a base fertilizer for example Alga Bloom and
You use it when your plants starts to switch from that growth phase to the flowering phase when it starts to produce flower buds and this bio stimulant will make your plant produce more flower buds and it will bloom quicker. So this is really awesome to use not only for ornamental
Plants but I would say even more for food crops because more flowers equals more vegetables or fruit and you can really optimize and boost your food production especially in a small space like balcony or container garden by using a bio stimulant that will make your plant produce
More flower buds and essentially more food. So I’m really excited to give it a try and we will see how that goes. Okay and that’s literally it two base fertilizers, three additives and one bio stimulant that I’m going to be trying for the first time this year. As you can see I don’t use
Any pesticides my garden has always been and will always remain pesticide free. I want to support wildlife and pollinators in the city center so I don’t use pesticides. For pest control I rely on cultural methods, so physical control methods and removing pest manually when possible and whenever
It’s getting out of control, let’s put it this way, I use biological control methods. Introducing a natural predator for that specific pest and when you… I always say this…. I don’t want to sound mean by saying that but when you educate yourself on how it works how the pest work and how those
Natural control methods work, introducing natural predator to fight that specific pest, when you do it properly it really works incredibly well and I’ve been relying on that for the past eight years and I had all kinds of pest in my garden – really all kinds of possible pest you can imagine, and
I’ve been relying on those two methods: cultural methods and biological control methods and never ever have I once felt the need to introduce any type of pesticides. So that’s what works for me and I highly encourage you to look into this how natural predators work and how you can use that
In your garden for pest control. But this is going to be it for today’s video hope that you found some helpful informations and maybe you’ll want to give a try to some of these products. I highly recommend them that’s what I’ve been using for the past years and works really really well
For me. So thank you so much for joining me today and we will see each other in the next video bye!
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Amazing video🌹🌹
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The results are wonderful. Your Clematis look fabulous. I will have to try these in the Spring. 🌼 🌸 🌻
Howdy! Thanks for sharing your feeding regiment.🙂
Howdy! Thanks for sharing your feeding regiment.🙂