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Refresh Your House Plants

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Date: 10/10/2001 Topic: Gardening > House Plants  
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Take advantage of a light rain and set your houseplants outside. Just like giving them plant food and you don't have to pay for it. Helps keep the plants clean, too!

By Linda
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By CindyM56 (Guest Post)
My daughter-in-law uses mayonnaise and rubs down the leaves of her plants with it. Makes it clean and shiny!
P.S. I did think she was crazy when she told me about it though.

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By Hemmigrammus (1) Blog! Contact
I use a waste banana skin to polish Aspidistra leaves, and my aquarium's filter waste water is used to feed my house plants

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By Marcia S (52) Profile Contact
This sounds like a good idea. I am thinking that a person can catch rain water to use on the house plants instead of house water. It would help the plant to not get so much salt build up.


Place houseplants outdoors during a rain to catch the rainwater. Rainwater will help flush out accumulated salts from tap water, too.

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By paxpuella (5) Contact
Also, water your plants with warm water. I never did that until the last month and my begonia has started blooming non-stop now.

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By patsAZ (58) Profile Contact
My problem----------Don't forget to take them back inside. Needless to say I don't have a green thumb.

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By ThriftyFun (3107) Profile Blog! Contact
Place houseplants outdoors during a rain to catch the rainwater. Rainwater will help flush out accumulated salts from tap water, too.

By Linda

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