How to Keep Your Houseplants Alive in Sacramento

The secret to keep houseplants alive in Sacramento is very simple yet overlooked by masses.

You need to keep your houseplants alive in Sacramento if you want to grow indoor plants, yet everybody seems to struggle with this issue. For example, I was killing my houseplants for years without realizing there was a simple solution for this problem. And I’m not talking about anybody peeing in the plants, just in case you’re wondering.

You think this doesn’t happen? You don’t have any cats or weird roommates, do you? Let me tell you, I once rented the lower level of a home to the lead singer from the Castaways, a dude so stoned he would leave his guitar on the front steps and forget to turn off the water in the kitchen sink, and let’s not even talk about the sign I had to place over the toilet in his bathroom that read please flush.

I caught my cat urinating in a plant. She pushed aside the Spanish moss and dug in the dirt. It was absolutely disgusting. When I asked my “roommate” why she did that, he said, “She must have seen me do it.” Was he kidding? I dunno. This is how you kill an indoor plant. I also lost a lot of houseplants when my house in Ventura fell into the ocean because let me tell you, living plants don’t fare well in saltwater, either.

You can keep your houseplants alive in Sacramento if you water the plants. The problem is remembering to do it. Oh, sure, you’ll glance at your plants and think I must have watered those houseplants last week, when in actuality you haven’t touched any plants for a month, and that’s why they are dying.

The Secret to Keep Your Houseplants Alive in Sacramento

The secret to keep your houseplants alive in Sacramento is so simple, I don’t know why I never thought of it before a few years ago. Let’s not talk about how I am 64 and should know better. It also applies to home staging in Sacramento, if you are using real indoor plants. Because little looks worse than a lonely dying plant decaying in the corner when showing a home.

The secret is pick a day — one day a week — that is easy for you to remember to set aside to water your indoor plants. For me, that day is Thursday afternoon. The other trick, of course, is to buy hardy indoor plant that are very difficult to kill by over- or under-watering. Like snake plants, prayer, spider plants, an elephant foot, pathos or philodenrens. But watering once a week does the trick when it’s on your schedule.

If a super busy Sacramento Realtor like me can do it, so can you.