Selection and purchase of indoor plants

All houseplants, including vegetables, should be purchased in early spring or early summer. At this time in the shops most often arrive healthy, well-rooted plants. Before buying plants, you should consider where they will be located in the apartment. In this case it is necessary to take into account the size of the purchased plants and the rate of their growth. When growing any plants in apartments there is a golden rule - the larger, higher and lighter the room, the easier the plants tolerate all the adversities of enclosed spaces, especially in the winter. For example, in light cool rooms, in a corridor, a slightly heated loggia or in a winter garden, where the temperature does not rise above 10 -15 ° C, the subtropical plants grow best - all kinds of citrus, tea, olive, medlar and others. Some vegetable, especially green, crops can also grow here. If your room has northern windows and the temperature in it does not exceed 10-12 ° C in winter, then the laurels are the most suitable for it, the noble, garnet, which leaves leaves for the winter, the best of all will be sorrel, celery, parsley andonion on the greens. Very little light is needed for distilling salad chicory and growing cauliflower.

All plants should be purchased only in specialized stores, as well as in farms that produce planting material, or in greenhouses. Only here you will be helped to choose the necessary plants and will give qualified advice on the way they are grown, and often a reminder for caring for them. In the specialized shops and farms on sale, as a rule, absolutely healthy plants with washed leaves arrive. It is not advisable to buy plants in cases where the roots break through the drainage holes, pots show a green plaque or mold, the plant is poorly formed, there are few shoots and leaves, or if the size of the pots does not match the size of the plants. In addition, we do not recommend buying newly planted plants. They can be determined by drooping leaves. In this case, they will have to create special transitional conditions for them to adapt in the apartment. And one more tip-when acquiring plants, try to choose young specimens, as they are better and faster adapting to room conditions. At purchase it is desirable to check and a degree of rooting. To do this, the plant must be removed with a clod of earth from the pot. If the roots began to braid, such a plant can be bought. You should carefully inspect the plants to prevent the introduction of pests and diseases into the apartment. On apices of shoots of many plants aphids often settle, and on the underside of leaves - scabbards and their larvae. Sometimes the plants do not see the pests themselves, but the damage done by them( sticky and blackish leaves - a sign of the presence of a scab and black fungus, mottled or stained leaves - a viral spot).Annual vegetable crops can be bought on the market. There are good varieties of tomatoes suitable for growing on the windows, cucumbers, peppers( sweet and bitter), multiflow bows for distilling on the pen, cauliflower. When buying vegetables on the market, you should also adhere to the rules outlined above - carefully inspect the plants and discard the sick and underdeveloped. We recommend buying plants only in peat bogs or plastic pots, preferably in the morning hours.

Most of the vegetables and some subtropical fruit crops( tea, laurel, coffee, laurel) reproduce by seeds. Purchased seeds must be clean, free of debris and plant debris. The seeds should be purchased best in the autumn( September - October).If you have the opportunity, you need to test them for germination.

We recommend you carefully pack the plants. This is especially important in the winter and early spring periods, as with poor packaging plants can freeze or dry out. Within 2-3 weeks they must undergo an adaptation period in the apartment. At this time they should be protected from drafts, low temperatures and from direct sunlight. We advise newly acquired plants to keep at a moderate temperature, do not water abundantly and only after 1-2 weeks they can be put on a permanent place.