Petal Patch

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Windowsills · 2 min read

Cut a yellow leaf at the base

Pinjarra Heritage Rose Garden, February 2020 02
Photograph by Calistemon. CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikimedia Commons.

Cut a yellow leaf at the base. What is in front of you is a single yellow leaf.

Do it in order

Handle it this way: cut it off and do not soak the plant in response. Wash the tool when you move to the next plant.

The usual miss

People lose cuttings and seedlings to water added for every yellow leaf. Slow down there.

Finished means the soil is not wetter than it was. If you are guessing, water less than you want to and look again tomorrow.

This sits in "Windowsills", written as a garden note rather than a catalog.

A garden note, not a promise that a plant will thrive. Look again in a week.