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When it comes to getting started with your garden, there are two options; buying a plant or planting seeds. Both have their own merits. If you plant seeds and tend them every day, you will find it is a much more rewarding experience when you have a full, healthy plant. But, this method is a lot more chancey. I can’t tell you how many seeds I’ve planted and never seen any trace of whatsoever.

If you choose to purchase the plant from a nursery and put it in your garden, it minimizes a lot of the work involved in making it healthy.

It may sound obvious, but the one thing youmust check for on your prospective plants is how good they look. As far as plants go, you can truly judge a book by its cover. If a plant has been treated well and has no pests or diseases, you can nearly always tell by how good it looks. If a plant has grown up in poor soil, or has harmful bugs living in it, you can tell from the holey leaves and wilted stems.

If you’re browsing the nursery shelves looking for your dream plant, you want to exclude anything that currently has flowers. Plants are less traumatized by the transplant if they do not currently have any flowers. It’s best to find ones that just have buds. But if all you have to choose from are flowering plants, then you should do the unthinkable and sever all the flowers. It will be worth it for the future health of the plant. I’ve found that transplanting a plant while it is blooming results in having a dead plant seventy five percent of the time.

Always check the roots before you buy the plant. Examine the roots very closely for any signs of brownness, softness or rot. The roots should always be a firm, perfectly well formed infrastructure that holds all the soil together.. If there are a ridiculous amount of roots with little soil, or a bunch of soil with few roots, you should not purchase that plant.

If you detect any abnormalities with the plant, whether it be the shape of the roots or any irregular features with the leaves, you should discuss this with the nursery staff. While usually these things can be an indication of an unhealthy plant, occasionally there will be a logical explanation for it.

If you decide to take the easy route and get a plant from a nursery, just remember that the health of the plants has been left up to someone you don’t know. Generally they do a good job, but you need to always check for yourself. Also take every precaution you can to avoid transplant shock in the plant (when it has trouble adjusting to its new location, and therefore has health problems in the future). Generally the process goes smoothly, but you can never be too sure.

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