Question: How to Not Kill Your House Plants?

by shadowphenyx on May 2, 2009

Photo via Tree Hugger

An acquaintance of mine, Jonathan Mead (of Zen Habits) asks on Twitter: I’m looking for a book or how to on how to not kill your houseplants. Any suggestions?

So do you guys have a favourite gardening book or indoor gardening manual to suggest? Jonathan immediately found a book of interest which might be useful to people living in apartments or work in areas with little space for a large garden:

How to Grow Fresh Air: 50 House Plants that Purify Your Home or Office (Paperback)

Apparently it got 5/5 out of 40 Amazon reviews (that’s a lot – to me anyway). We’ll have to remember to add that to the FoodCycles future reference library.

PS. What I love about Jonathan is how his work always reminds me to take it easy. Lets see if I can work the zen of salad greens very soon…

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shadowphenyx 05.03.09 at 4:40 pm: Susan’s response:

Overwatering is the most common killer of houseplants…

Then she gives a whole list of resources:
http://gardening.about.com/od/houseplants/tp/HouseplantTips.htm

http://www.sortyourlife.yell.com/how-not-to-kill-your-houseplants/

http://hubpages.com/hub/Hard-to-Kill_Houseplants

http://ceeldorado.ucdavis.edu/files/18430.htm

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