This is Weed, and this is Wack with WOWDY Gardens. We are an organic gardening show focusing on doing stuff yourself to save money. Right, right. We like to save our money and keep our plants growing. So this week we’re going to talk about a lot of us in the spring like to move plants outdoors for summer growth and flowering. And now’s past, actually, past the time to bring them in, but it’s not too late.
We’re going to talk about how to bring your indoor plants in for the winter time. And we’ve got a few topics we’re going to hit on. We’re going to, before you bring them inside, try to get rid of all those, pass off of those plants and try to act. That’s number one. Number two, try to act, acclimate them to their new environment. If they’re in direct sun, maybe move them into the shade for a little bit. Number four, cut back on Watt or yeah. Oh yeah, temperature. Bring them in. Number three,
temperature. Bring them in when it gets what below 40, I mean 50. Yeah. Well, 45. Yeah. Yeah. And cut back on water and fertilizing and make sure you have plenty. Your new indoor environment has the right light and humidity. I haven’t completed the process yet and we’ve had, we’ve had a couple nights below 50. So I have been spraying my plants and getting them ready for
the summer side, but I still have quite a bit of work to do. So we’re talking about tropical plants that have been outside, soaking up that summer sun. Now it’s time to bring them in because it’s getting colder at night and they won’t survive in the day. So we want to spray them with an organic pesticide once a week for at least three weeks, preferably five weeks, but three weeks is, you know, works.
And that would be with an insecticidal soap or a neem oil, which are both organic, I believe. Right. It’s more work. You can continue treating them with neem once you get them in the house, but it’s a, or any kind of insecticidal soap is just easier to do it outside cause it’s less of a cleanup. Right. And when you spray them, you want to spray the underside of the leaf as well as the top part and then the stem and then the ground around the plants. Right.
So you just want to water them, no fertilization. Do that in the spring.
State is the way I like. Yeah. They’re going into their dormant stage. Right. I do get some of my tropical plants will do their thing, um, um, flower in the windowsill for me, which is always a real tree. Well, then again, they might flower because they’re getting less light and less light sometimes triggers flowering. I like to, um, bring a lot of those plants, you know, that you wind up buying each year.
I either collect the seeds, uh, like my petunias, I just leave them out there and repot the plants right. Those are annuals. Those are annuals, but I know they’re going to reseeds in place. If you leave them alone, but I, I found with a lot of those annuals, like bagonias and things and geraniums, I can make clippings, uh, um, uh, and put those clippings in my windowsill and managed to get those plants to, uh, you put them in water and water and I managed to get those plants going. And then of course I,
I use as light as soil. You said you could, you did that with mint as well. Mint and basil as well. Um, uh, and I love to bring in my, um, uh, uh, my, uh, pots of spices because, uh, it’s even the perennial spices like rosemary. I keep wrote some rosemary outside, but I always, uh, uh, I make a little cutting. I have a cutting from your cousin’s place. Uh, how do you propagate that rosemary? Uh, the rosemary that I cut at your
cousin’s place, uh, I brought it and put it in a jar in the windowsill, rooted like crazy. And now it’s in a little hot water and water. And that will be the rosemary I bring inside on my windowsill to use all, uh, um, yeah, I’ll show it to you. Um, yeah, I put it in water. Remember we were there and I took cuttings home. Yeah, I remember. Yeah. Yeah. And, um, um, used a lot. It was a, a hearty, uh, plant anyway. I’m glad I propagated it, but, uh, I’ll bring that inside just in case we have a really bad winter and some of the, uh,
my, uh, rosemary doesn’t make it. Hey, rosemary doesn’t like temperatures below five degrees outside. I’ve lost some rosemary bushes in the past cause of cold weather. So, uh, and then of course you can bring your bulbs inside too, but that’s a whole nother, uh, uh, topic. Uh, how, uh, what are we doing time wise here? Oh, we got more. So the, let’s go over, um, um, um, what did we learn? Spray your plants, tropical plants that you’re planning on bringing inside once a week.
Release three weeks in a row. Find a spot where you’re going to plant them. If it’s a cold floor, it might be a good idea to put a heat mat on there, uh, because they don’t like cold roots as well as, you know, the rest of the plant, um, have a spot obviously in your, in your house where you’re going to trans, transfer these to, and do not fertilize them. Do not fertilize, but they do need light and humidity.
And, uh, they do need, uh, washing, uh, houses is dusty environment. So you want, that’s right. They’re not going to get any rain being inside. So it’s a good idea to, and you can do that with a little hot ball or with always cold water. Don’t ever give them hot water. Right. Um, uh, uh, yeah, put them in the shower, always cold water. A good shower is a good idea for something. Put a screen in the drain and get them a nice cool shower. Yeah. Put them in the bathtub and shower them. Uh, okay.
So when the temperatures one temp below 45, move them inside, get rid of the pests, uh, acclimate them to their new environment, uh, and cut back on water and fertilizer and make sure they get enough light and humidity. Stop fertilizing. Yeah. Oh yeah. Exactly. I didn’t mean cut back. I said, I meant stop fertilizing. Right. Yeah. Okay, folks. Yeah. Bring those plants inside and bring them all year long and then enjoy them next year. So you don’t have to buy any new ones. That’s the idea. All right.
So goodbye from weed and whack. Join us next week. We’ll be back.