Content

• Steps
• Method 1 of 3: Washing the flower pot
• Method 2 of 3: Preventing Disease in Plants
• Method 3 of 3: Keeping your garden clean
• Tips

You may not really feel like washing your flower pot if you are going to refill it with earth. But if you rinse the flower pot, then you will not transfer diseases from one plant to another during transplantation. To keep your plants healthy, you need to know how to wash your flowerpots, fight disease, and be good at maintaining your garden.

Steps

Method 1 of 3: Washing the flower pot

1. 1 You must understand why it is so important to wash your flowerpots. Diseases can be transmitted from an old plant to a new one planted in the same pot. Diseases lurk in plants and can be in the soil for a very long time. Therefore, it is so important to wash the flower pots, which may have contained diseased plants, and only then can the washed pots be used again.
   • Flower pots made of wood and clay are especially potent and long fraught with the danger of re-infection of new plants.
2. 2 Wash all flowerpots and flowerpots in your home. In addition to garden plants, it is also very important to wash those flowerpots and pots that are in the house, because they can also carry diseases from one plant to another.
3. 3 Remove any remnants of last year's plants from the pot. Before you start planting a new plant in a pot, be sure to remove any remnants of last year's plants from the pot, as well as any leftover soil in the pot. If an infected plant grew in this land last year, then you cannot reuse the land or send it to compost.
   • You may find that potted compost is best replaced as all the nutrients have been used up during the plant's life cycle. The new plant will need new compost.
4. 4 Rub the pot well. When you empty the pot, rinse it out with detergent, warm water, and a good brush. Be sure to also wash any plates and stands the pot has been on.
   • Rinse the pot thoroughly to rinse off the detergent.
5. 5 If there was a diseased plant in the pot before, then you can soak the pot. You can make a solution of water and bleach (10% bleach) and soak the pot in it for about one hour.
   • If you are unable to immerse the pot in a large pot of mortar, then wash the pot very well by rubbing it thoroughly with a sponge both outside and inside.
6. 6 Let the pot dry. Before you plant a new plant, the pot must dry out. Don't take soil from your garden, use sterile, packaged soil from a store, or use homemade compost.

Method 2 of 3: Preventing Disease in Plants

1. 1 Be careful when composting yourself. If you compost yourself, it is very easy to spread the disease throughout your garden. The disease can be easily tolerated if you take some of the soil from your garden to make the fertilizer. If the soil looks suspicious to you, don't compost it.
   • When in doubt, do not add soil to the compost.The heat that comes from self-made compost usually kills all diseases, but you shouldn't always rely on it.
2. 2 Keep your garden tidy to reduce insect activity as much as possible. There are some insects in your garden, but there are some that can harm your plants. Simple actions such as sweeping fallen leaves will reduce the likelihood of insects and mammals in your garden. You must be tolerant and find some balance between allowing some insects to live in your garden and at the same time trying not to greatly influence the processes taking place there.
   • You can keep one part of the insect garden separate from another part of the garden.
   • You should not blindly destroy all the insects that appear in your garden. Be prepared to lose a few leaves in which caterpillars turn into butterflies, after all, this is good for your plants.
3. 3 Wear gloves when working with compost. This article talks about how to deal with diseases in plants, but do not forget that you should also protect yourself. Plants do not transmit diseases to humans, however, there have been cases when, after working with compost, a person developed some unwanted diseases. Fortunately, this rarely happens. In any case, it is recommended that you wear gloves when handling compost.
   • Wash your hands thoroughly after handling compost and avoid breathing compost fumes.

Method 3 of 3: Keeping your garden clean

1. 1 Use sterile, clean soil. Distribute soil in containers that contain plants and do not mix with soil that contains diseased plants.
2. 2 Keep your garden tools clean. Sometimes it is very good to disinfect instruments while working with them in a solution of bleach (approximately one part bleach to 10 parts water).
3. 3 Get rid of contaminated items. Burn any diseased plants or throw them away with infected inventory. Never add anything that shows signs of disease to the compost. If the plant is sick, then remove it, remove the land in which it grew and you should not plant the same type of plant in the same place.
   • Get rid of any diseased leaves on your plants.
4. 4 Your plants will be healthy if you take care of them. If you take care of your plants properly, they will be resistant to disease. If the plants are suffering (for example, from insufficient watering), then they will be more susceptible to various changes.
5. 5 Leave the required distance between the plants. Plants need air. When you are gardening, try to keep the plants from growing densely.
6. 6 Buy disease resistant plants. When you buy plants, try to buy plants that are most resistant to all possible diseases in a particular plant species. When you buy plants, pay attention to the markings that indicate that the plants are not at risk of certain diseases. For example, the 'VF' label indicates that the plant is not at risk of fusarium or verticilliosis.
   • You may also see the 'PM' mark, which indicates that the plant is not at risk of mold. You do not need to memorize all the markings, but you know what the weaknesses of your garden are and therefore, try to buy plants that will be resistant to the problems that arise in your garden.
7. 7 Try not to plant the same type of plant in the same place from year to year. Diseases can persist in the soil and can sometimes affect all plants during their next flowering.
   • If there are diseases in your garden, then completely change the planting plan. Avoid planting susceptible plants in certain areas of your garden. If you still do not want to change the planting plan, then change the soil in the garden before planting new plants.

Tips

• Orchids need light on their roots, so plant them in clean pots. It is very important to plant orchids in clean pots and allow light to shine on their roots.