HOW TO GROW FERNS - ORNAMENTAL PLANTS
requirements and varieties to suit all
Gardens phones are something you will
absolutely enjoy growing in the
ornamental plant series today we will
look at growing ferns they come in a lot
of different varieties and in your local
garden center you can see a lot of
different varieties of phones that you
can pick up for growing in your home
garden and there are a lot of fun
varieties over hundreds of thousands of
varieties that you will find however I
will go over two of the most common
varieties and the most beautiful
varieties in my opinion in today's
episode
they are abundantly found in nature here
you can see a couple of photos from the
Redwood National Park and let's now jump
into the first Phone variety which is
asparagus fern this is a beautiful
looking phone variety with beautiful
leaves as you can see here and they can
be shaped to almost any size you want or
any shape you want just like all other
phones they love shade and they produce
these nice green leaves and the only
maintenance they really require is
pruning and as I mentioned you can shape
them into any form that you want and we
will talk in more detail when we look at
our next phone variety which is the fox
tail fern which is another very popular
phone variety that you can easily find
in almost any gardening store and since
the leaves look like the tail of a fox
it gets its name the fox tail phone and
as you can see here this is a beautiful
looking phone variety the one that
you're seeing right here has a little
bit of yellow leaves and phones are
shade-loving plants so even with the
slightest sunlight you will see that
some of the leaves turn yellow and that
is why it's recommended that you grow
fawns in shade or partial shade at least
and let's look at the watering
requirements now most phones like moist
and humid conditions so don't let your
fern plants dry out
make sure they're on a good drip
irrigation schedule and that way they
can produce the best leaves if you have
weeds growing around your fern plant
make sure that you remove those weeds
because they will compete for water and
nutrients and since you water your fern
plants a lot you can see weeds like
clover growing around your plant like
you see here so just make sure you
remove all the weeds around your plant
and then your plant will stay healthy
ferns prefer soil that is loose and rich
with organic matter they don't really
need a lot of fertilizer but if you want
healthy plants and you want nice green
leaves on your fun plant then you can
use either of these two fertilizers you
need to use a high nitrogen fertilizer
for good leaf growth so if you're using
an organic fertilizer you can use blood
meal which is high in nitrogen and if
you like to use salt based fertilizers
you can use a high nitrogen fertilizer
like the one you see on your screen here
or any all-purpose fertilizer so the
maintenance that you need to do for all
foreign plants is pruning the dead
leaves the fern leaves will dry and
become yellow and brown so you need to
remove them to preserve good aesthetics
for your plant and just by doing that
and by regular watering you can have
beautiful fern plants that will adorn
your guard and as far as insects and
diseases go the fern plants are
relatively maintenance free there are
not a lot of insects that attack the
fern plant the only exception may be
slugs and snails which try to make holes
and some of the phone leaves but unless
you are growing the large phone leaves
like the Australian phone you won't
really see a slug problem in your phone
plants as well check out my video on
controlling snails and slugs to control
them in your home garden now fern plants
do require reporting when you're growing
them in containers and they do get very
root bound as you can see here the roots
are pretty interesting they have these
rounded kind of tube you
fools on the end of their roots and they
do get rootbound very quickly so I
recommend that you report your fern
plant at least every two years for
optimal growth so there we have it folks
let me know if you like this episode
it's a break from growing all the
edibles that I've been posting for the
last few years
