Killing with neglect...

Here’s the no-brainer: if you don’t take care of them, they will die.

Regardless of where you get them and where you plant them, the plants you grow rely on you for various and sundry small details….like:

Proper selectionProper sitingProper lightingProper wateringProper feeding

Sensing a pattern here?

Drop the ball on any one of these and your plant, sooner or later, is dust.

Neglect is easier to commit than you think. We all have busy lives. While we yearn to have the natural world close to us, we’re constantly on the go.

Because they are sentient…and move around…and make noise…we wouldn’t dream of neglecting our pets (most of us anyway). Plants are easier to walk past without thinking.

All things being equal, most of us commit our neglect by not watering. It’s the most deadly, or at least the quickest way, to kill plants. Many will limp by for a while if the other details are neglected, but ALL plants need water and will head, inexorably, to the compost heap without it.

Trust me…it’s much easier, and less emotionally taxing, to give your plants away—or (gulp) toss them, than it is to watch them slowly decline, screaming voicelessly for help (think Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz….“I’m melting…” without the words).

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