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Transcript: Summer Vacation Plant Care
Are you planning a summer vacation and you need somebody to babysit your plants? Maybe you don't have a neighbor to take care of them or perhaps you hired a kid last year and came home to the toasty remains of what used to be your plants. Well, there's an easy way to babysit them.
You can take a little kiddy pool like this, and place about an inch or two of water in the bottom and then set your plants down into the water. If you put only about an inch or two deep, it won't drown the plants and the water will actually wick up into the plant pot and keep the roots moist for a long time, actually a couple of weeks.
By using a large container like this you have a volume of water so, although it is evaporating, there's still some to work up into your plants.
I also like to set the plants in a little out-of-the-way spot where they're getting some sunlight, but not a whole lot and that way the water demands are reduced a little.
You don't need to put too much water into the pool. In fact, if you make it too deep, you'll drown the roots and come back to some dead plants.
In a couple of weeks, mosquitoes can move in and set up house keeping in your water, so you want to throw a little bit of a BT product for mosquitoes. They come in a granular form as well as some little donuts that you float in the pool. That way, you'll have a mosquito-free plant environment while you're gone.
With your common sense tip for throwing a pool party for your plants while you're on vacation, I'm Skip Richter.
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July 12, 2006