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Plant Lover Starter Guide: Easy Plants & Must-Have Tools for Beginners
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items Starting your plant journey? This guide includes beginner-friendly plants, tools, and care essentials that will help you build your green space with confidence. Whether you live in a small apartment or want to freshen up your workspace, these picks a...
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Soil
Essential Plant Tools
Fertilizer
DYI Leaf Shine
Tips
Easy Plants
Soil
Soil is very important for the longevity of your plants . Most plants can thrive in a chunky soil mix . A chunky mix helps with drainage and air flow
While it does also help retain some water, perlite is primarily used to aerate compost. It excellent for creating a free-draining potting compost for plants that need good drainage, such as cacti and succulents. It can also help create an airy compos...
Perlite - Soil Amendments
Impove Soil Aeration: Perlite has a porous structure that provides excellent drainage.
Impove Soil Drainage: Improved drainage for potted plants grown indoors and outdoors.
Prevent Soil compaction: It's porosity prevents soil from compacting.
Improve...
Perlite
Orchid Bark helps prevent root rot.
Orchid Bark helps improves aeration and soil drainage.
Better-Gro 8 Qt. Orchid Bark 50190
Orchid Bark helps prevent root rot.
Orchid Bark helps improves aeration and soil drainage.
Better-Gro Orchid bark 4 Quart(s) Fruit flower and vegetable Organic Potting ...
Humus in earthworm castings helps increase soil's capacity for water retention, improve soil aeration and anchor plant nutrients that would leach away and be lost.
Earthworm Castings Plant Food 35941624
Great for some plants do the research based on your plant
What is Coco Coir and How to Use it
Sol Soils Chunky Houseplant Mix - Fast Draining Soil for Indoor Plants with Coco Coir Chips, Perlite, & Pumice, 2 Quart
Houseplant Chunky Mix - Sol Soils
Sol Soils Chunky Houseplant Mix - Fast Draining Soil for Indoor Plants with Coco Coir Chips, Perlite, & Pumice, 2 Quart
Sol Soils
Great soil
Ocean Forest® Potting Soil
Essential Plant Tools
Create your little jungle without the overwhelm! These tools and plants will set you up for success—even if you’ve never kept a plant alive before.
Helps prevent over/underwatering.
Moisture Meters
Watering Can with Long Spout: For easy, mess-free watering.
Watering Cans / Lawn & Garden Watering Equipment
Pruning Shears: To trim dead leaves and encourage healthy growth.
Pruning Shears
Pruning Shears: To trim dead leaves and encourage healthy growth.
Gardening Shears & Pruners
Plant Mister: Great for humidity-loving plants like ferns and calatheas
9 Best Plant Misters of 2024
Perfect for dark corners. Try full-spectrum clip-on styles.
Sansi LED Grow Lights Collection for Indoor Plants
Fertilizer
Just like we need food plants need food especially in spring and summer
Best fertilizer my plants love it . I see new leaves all the time
Purived | Plant Nutrition | Liquid Houseplant Food, Indoor House Plant
My second choice plant fertilizer. Works great
Liquid Fertilizers
Works well for new growth. 3rd choice
Drugs For Plants
DYI Leaf Shine
You will need to first add 2 cups of water, 1/4 cups of neem oil ( or more to your liking ), 1 tablespoon of dishwashing liquid or peppermint Castile soap don’t forget the isopropyl alcohol
Neem oil is a type of vegetable oil extracted from the fruits and seeds of the neem tree (Azadirachtaindica), a fast-growing evergreen tree that is native to the Indian subcontinent. With a large variety of different uses, neem oil is an extremely ve...
Amazon.com
See description for instructions on how much to add to a spray bottle with the other ingredients
Amazon Basics 99% Isopropyl Alcohol 16 fl oz
Great for also keeping pest away
Castile Soap Spray for Garden Pests [Video]
Tips
Water Less Often Than You Think – Most beginner plant deaths come from overwatering.
• Use Natural Light Wisely – South-facing windows give the best light.
• Rotate Your Plants – Helps them grow evenly.
• Group Plants Together – Increases humidity...
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Easy Plants
ZZ Plant (Zamioculcas zamiifolia): Thrives in low light, very low maintenance. Doesn’t need weekly watering
Zz Plant
Snake Plant (Sansevieria): Virtually indestructible. Low light + drought-toleran
Snake Plant
Easy to care for plant
Pothos Plant
Easy to care for and low light
Spider Plants and Clean Air
Peace Lily: Adds flowers and improves air quality (needs moderate watering).
Peace Lilies