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All things green, outdoors, and nature-y. Whether it's animals in their natural habitat, hiking trails and mountains, or planting a little garden for yourself (and everything in between), you can talk about it here.

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I have over 170 house plants. If I submitted a photo and a quick info guide on them per day or every few days, would that be something worthwhile of interest or would that be considered too spammy? (lemmy.ml)

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A better question might be: would it be better suited for a "houseplant" community, since this is more gardening and general nature inspired?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I always seem to overwater, so I’d love on-site on how OP manages watering.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not the OP, but I water weekly (I picked Sunday) and you get on board or die. (No one has died.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I love that! This is what I’ve been doing, except I don’t stick to one day a week but rather water quite… erratically. Take it or leave it, plant.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We have a lot more plants than OP (over 400), and my partner swears by the Planta app. A lot of our's are outside, so in the summer it would be so much more work if we didn't have something to track them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm in awe

But YES!!! the planta app is amazing! It's definitely not to be listened to 100% of the time when it comes to watering, but it is an absolute plant bible!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A lot of it came from the previous person that lived here, but yeah, our yard is a bit of a jungle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh wow! We have 47 plants right now and that seemed like a lot. I see we were wrong, ha! I also use an app, however I find myself watering outside the schedule all the time… kind of as needed. Need to stick to the schedule more, I imagine it will make it easier.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, this is by no means a normal number of plants. Our back yard is very jungle like. The previous people that lived here planted pretty much all of our outdoor plants.