Give Your Houseplants Room to Grow

Don't forget to provide your indoor houseplants with room to grow. When an indoor plants roots begin to fill the container and grow out of the openings in the bottom of the pot, the plant should be re-potted.

The process is a simple one and will hardly take any time at all to do. Your local garden center will have plenty of decorative containers that will fit in your current motif. Choose one that's a couple of inches larger than the one you will be replacing.

Place a layer of gravel, for drainage, and a layer of deactivated charcoal, to keep things sweet, at the bottom of the container.

A commercial potting soil is best for repotting. They provide nutrients and are disease-free, unlike soil from your garden.

Pull the plant out of the old container, tickle the roots a little to loosen, place in its new home and backfill with soil. Make certain you don't bury the plant any deeper than it was before, otherwise it will rot.

Firm the soil lightly, then moisten with water spiked with a mild liquid fertilizer solution. Your plant can now grow comfortably in its new setting.

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