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April
14, 2006:
Interesting Benefits Of Houseplants
Interview
with Sharon Lovejoy, author of Trowel
And Error
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Mike
Carruthers:
Having houseplants in your home isn't just attractive, it's
healthy.
Sharon Lovejoy:
NASA scientists discovered one thing that remedies indoor pollution,
just two house plants for every 100 square feet removes toxins,
and then they turn pollutants into food for the plants and oxygen
for us.
Sharon Lovejoy
author of the book Trowel
& Error.
The most efficient
air purifiers are Boston fern and weeping fig-that's the plain
old Ficus-Areca palm and the rubber plant and those peace lilies
which are so beautiful. They are great air purifiers, but any
houseplants actually work.
Houseplants are
easy to care for if you get the right ones, and Sharon says
any nursery can help you choose. Over watering is the biggest
killer of houseplants, and when should you water?
I always tend
to water in the morning because I like them to have an entire
day to drain. You know I love to use chamomile tea on them.
Cool chamomile tea keeps fungus and mildew down, and I also
use pure gelatin. I'll just sprinkle pure gelatin around some
of my plants, and it delivers various nutrients to them.
And when a houseplant
leaf turns brown or falls off, Sharon says never add it to the
soil of the plant.
I can't stand
it when I see people adding those to the base of their plants.
It just introduces disease. It's not a clean habit to do for
houseplants.
And Sharon says
there's something very interesting about ficus trees.
Often when a
ficus drops all its leaves that means that there's an undetected
gas leak in the house.
For transcripts
visit our website: somethingyoushouldknow.net.
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's "Something You Should Know."
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