If your snake plant needs to be repotted, you'll notice a few telltale signs, such as "slowed growth, or roots coming out of the bottom of its container," says gardening coach and author Lee Miller.
If you want to keep a plant healthy, ensuring it has enough light and water is only part of the equation. Over time, a houseplant will outgrow its pot, and you'll need to transfer it to a new one.
Whether you’ve kept a fiddle-leaf fig alive for years or you’ve killed more succulents than you can count, repotting a houseplant can be a daunting task. If you want your plant to thrive, though, it’s ...
Most houseplants need to be repotted once every year or two. There are obvious signs when it's time to repot, like roots growing out of the bottom of the pot. Choose a pot that's 1 to 2 inches larger ...
Houseplants might not be top of your agenda this time of year, but there's more to festive foliage than holly, mistletoe, and poinsettias. The Christmas cactus is one of the best ways to introduce a ...
Heinrich says that circling roots at the surface and around the edges of the container are signs that it's time to repot. "If you see almost nothing but thick roots with very little soil when you pull ...
All houseplants eventually outgrow their pots. At some point, your indoor plants need a bigger pot that can hold more soil to give their roots room to grow. Let a plant get root-bound, and it will ...
Rick Pudwell shows how to re-pot house plants and Booker T. Leigh explains lawn watering. This week on the Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, Rick Pudwell, Director of Horticulture at the ...
Sure, your green thumbs have been busy the last few weeks thumbing through seed catalogs, but if anything, that's just making you more excited to get your hands dirty working on actual plants.
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (WGHP) — Late winter and early spring is a ...
You may have heard that houseplants should never be repotted during the winter. But while repotting plants in wintertime is less than ideal, it may be necessary in certain circumstances. Whether ...