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How do I maintain healthy plants?

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How do I maintain healthy plants?

It's good to have a high organic matter soil, which keeps the plants growing stress-free. It's important to have the right plant in the right place. You hear this a lot from gardening experts, but we need to select the proper plant for the right location so that it will be stress-free and lower maintenance. We also need to look at proper care, that we're not watering late in the evening to promote disease and insect problems. Improving the air circulation around plants by either thinning the perennials or planting them away from a wall or a hedge will increase the air circulation and decrease disease.

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