Plants, like humans, need certain nutrients to grow strong.

Plant foods, on the other hand, usually contain only a few of them.

(Think of them as a targeted supplement for your greenery.)

Emma Loewe

Homemade 3-ingredient plant food.

One every three to four months is plenty to help ensure that your soil stays in good shape.

Materials:

Method:

Why it works.

Signs your plants don’t like it.

Other ways to give your plants the nutrients they need.

Alternatively, you could also make a liquid plant food by diluting 1 tsp.

baking powder, 1 tsp.Epsom salts, and 12 tsp.

ammonia into a gallon of warm water.

The bottom line.

If you’d rather just skip this step altogether, might we suggest the oh-so-low-maintenancelasagnaaka “lazy"gardening?