November 22, 2024

What to do on a terrace when you return from vacation?

Care to take after returning from vacation:

  • With pruning shears, cut off faded or rain-damaged flowers.
  • Refresh overly long branches that stick out.
  • Remove yellow leaves inside shrubs, impatiens, and geraniums.
  • Generously water pots and planters that lack water.
  • Empty saucers that are soaked with rain.
  • Pierce containers with non-existent or insufficient drainage.
  • Remove weeds that have grown in the pots.
  • Scratch the top of the pots to loosen and aerate the substrate.
  • Wash pots covered with green algae.
  • Feed your plants with granular or liquid fertilizers, for example, to make a chlorotic lemon tree green again.
  • Hang up the branches of the cucumber and tomato plants grown in a container.
  • Spray a natural black soap insecticide on all pots. Start again three days later in case of aphid invasion.
  • Pick up the dead leaves that line the floor of your terrace.
  • Inspect the irrigation network: seals, guns, taps, and programmers. Adapt the flow for the next few days.

In the space of a week, your plants will regain all their splendor!