When you grow flowers in a pot, you need to loosen the soil, just like when you eat too much, you need to loosen your pants belt.

At ordinary times, some people have a habit of loosening their belts when they are full, making themselves more comfortable, and the same is true of growing flowers. Improper use of soil for flowers is easy to cause hardening, which is not conducive to the pouring of water and fertilizer, so it is necessary to loosen the soil before it is time to change the basin.

Especially when we go up the big basin, we often use some old soil and mix it with some garden soil. after such soil has been raised for a long time, it is easy to have a slight hardening, and it is not easy to insert it with a small stick. in such an environment, the breathing of plant roots is not high and nutrient absorption is not good, so loosening the soil is imperative.

Loosening the soil is also skillful, if it can not be done well, it will also hurt the plants. First, use a small bamboo stick to pry loose the soil along the edge of the inner wall of the flowerpot. Just pry open a thin layer above, not to the root.

After the upper part is loose, go inside, hold the outer wall of the flowerpot in both hands and gently tap the outer wall of the flowerpot until the surface soil in the flowerpot is relaxed and even. in this way, the soil next to the inner wall of the flowerpot will also be loosened.

In the above two methods, the basin soil has basically been loosened a lot, but the situation at the bottom has not improved. At this time, hard sticks and sticks are inserted into the bottom of the pot along the inner wall of the flowerpot, and then carefully loosen the soil, or professional soil loosening tools can be used. but be careful not to hurt the roots of the plant.

After loosening the soil, you may find that if you want to water thoroughly, you will need more water than before. this is the effect of loosening the soil. before, the soil is hardened and cannot be infiltrated by watering, leaving the edge of the basin directly or some gaps to the bottom of the basin, which is not watered at all.

Therefore, usually in the maintenance, want to avoid this troublesome thing, there are two ways, one is to use professional nutrition soil, most of them are light, there are particles, rarely hardening.

Second, after mixing garden soil or old soil into the basin, usually pay attention not to irrigate half of the water, and then irrigate with organic nutrient solution of live soil and loose soil, the organic matter factors in it can improve the soil environment, and the consolidation will naturally be less.

Flower friends in conservation, try not to use garden soil directly, but also pay attention to the details of usual watering, these are the reasons for the consolidation of local soil, flowers need to loosen the soil, when it is time to change pots, change pots, so that plants can grow well.