How Not to Kill Your Houseplants: The Foolproof Guide to Lush, Healthy Plants

by Ann Pregosin

Overview

Reprint. Originally published: New York: Collier Books, c1986.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780595192762
Publisher:	iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date:	08/01/2001
Pages:	188
Sales rank:	639,336
Product dimensions:	5.86(w) x 9.12(h) x 0.48(d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements	ix
1.	How NOT to Go Out Looking for Disaster (And Pay Good Money for the Experience) or Where NOT To Buy Your Plants	1
2.	Once in the Right Place, How NOT to Buy the Wrong Plants	15
3.	How NOT to Ever Overwater Your Plants Again	30
4.	How NOT to Have a Potting Mixture That Dries Out Like a Brick and Wets Down Like A Swamp	43
5.	How NOT to Be Intimidated by Transplanting	52
6.	How NOT to Feed Big Dinners That Bring On Terminal Indigestion or Less Is More with Fertilizing	70
7.	How NOT to Be Plagued by Insects and Other Bugs	80
8.	How NOT to Wallow in the "I Can't Bear to Prune My Plants" Syndrome	116
9.	How NOT to Have the Maternity Ward Resemble a Mortuary or The Joys of Propagation	130
10.	How NOT to Pay Big Money for a Big Mistake or The Right Way to Choose Large Floor Plants for Your Home and Office	155