How To Protect Plants From Bugs When You're Away

Planning to be out of the house for an extended period of time? Dave tells you how to ensure that your houseplants survive your absence.

[Music Playing] Hi, I am David Epstein welcome to Growing Wisdom. You know I got a tip for you this weekend. I always encouraging you to go organic use organic product both in and out of the home. However, I want to introduce you a product it is not an organic and I used this especially for going to be away. Let us see you are going to be away and you do not have opportunity to check your houseplants and you are concern about bugs. What do you are going to do? Well, you can use something like a systemic and these are the systemic plant spikes which are fertilizer and insecticide. They go into the plant and the plant will actually absorb the insecticide and then if you get insects over the course of winter they are great because it does help protect your plant. So, it is a wonderful little tip. Again it is not organic if you are going to be at the house and you have a chance to you know check your plants in a weekly basis. You can use all sorts of organic products that are out there. To control bugs, mites and fungus but in the event that you are not at home and you sort of want to have peace of mind this is a great product the other product that I want to introduce you to Soil Moist. The Soil Moist is wonderful as well because this is a little granule which actually helps absorb water. So, once again if you are going to be away, if you are someone that forgets to water a lot it is a good idea that to mixed this in the soil before you plant your plants. So, if you are repotting it is a great thing to put inside the pot as well. So, two little tips for you here at Growing Wisdom come back every week for all of our tips here at growingwisdom.com. [Music Playing]