Gardening Methods

My house indoor plants keep dying?

My indoor plants keep dying. They are definatley indoor plants, as it states for indoors. I water them once a week. One was Jasmine plant, the other is yukka plant, and i cant remeber the other plant name, but its about 1 meter, and has loads of leaves, now they all seem to be dying. I recently put them into a bigger pot and with bit more compost as the pot is bigger. I put them in the garden 1x week so it has little bit of sunshine. What am i doing wrong? please help..any good tips and advice

On the whole, my boyfriend kills houseplants by:
1) not opening the curtains in the room they are in so they don’t get enough light
2) putting them in rooms or corners of rooms where there is very little natural light, even when he does remember to open the curtains
3) underwatering or overwatering (it depends on the plant, but generally once a week with enough water to make the soil damp but not soggy seems to be about right. Don’t leave them sitting in water – i.e. with water in the saucer under the pot – unless either they are bog plants and really need a load of water or you have left them to dry out so much that any water you pour on the soil goes straight through).
4) Keeping the room they are in too hot or cold, house plants generally like to be about the same temperature as people do.

Also, the person who answered you above is right, re-potting up a bigger size can be bad. There is an explanation about competing for nutrients with other plants in the wild, but I can’t remember the details of it right now.

Best advice I can think of: if you have a friend locally whose houseplants are still alive, invite them round to look at your plants and ask them if they can see any reason why your plants aren’t surviving.

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