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How to Grow Baby's Tears Houseplants
How to Grow Baby's Tears Houseplants. Grow a carpet of shamrock-type leaves to fit in many areas of your home or office. Add Baby's Tears to an indoor fountain, garden or even your office desk. The plant grows well in shallow containers and can be transferred outdoors where it will spread well between rocks and in crevices. Read on to learn more.
Grow a carpet of shamrock-type leaves to fit in many areas of your home or office. Add Baby's Tears to an indoor fountain, garden or even your office desk. The plant grows well in shallow containers and can be transferred outdoors where it will spread well between rocks and in crevices. Read on to learn more.
Things You'll Need
Shallow pot
Potting soil
Sand
Spray bottle of water
Fill an aquarium with Baby's Tears. The plant makes a good, moist vegetation for amphibians kept indoors. It even grows under a few inches of water in medium sunlight.
Cover an indoor water fountain or garden display with lush Baby's Tears. The plant will regenerate and spread rapidly to cover any humid area. It needs only a small amount of soil.
Create a small Baby's Tears garden for your office desk. Plant it in a shallow container and keep it moist all the time. You'll have a bed of tiny leaves for all to admire.
Find a shallow pot to plant your Baby's Tears in. Water your plant daily, keeping the soil moist, but not soggy. Put it in an east or west window in medium sunlight.
Add sand to a potting soil mixture when planting the Baby's Tears plant. Sand will help assure the plant has good drainage and gets the adequate amount of moisture.
Keep the tiny shamrock leaves of your plant clean by wiping them once a week with a damp cloth. The green 1/4 inch leaves form a large carpet-like mat over the stems of the plant.
Mist the leaves daily with warm water to keep the plant moist. The Baby's Tears plant likes humid conditions. A dry house isn't a good environment for proper growth.
Tips & Warnings
If the plant starts to die, trim browning foliage and it will regenerate.
The Baby's Tears can be pruned to any shape you like.
Don't put your plant in direct sunlight.
Don't put your Baby's Tears plant in a drafty area. The cold air could kill it.
