What do plants need to grow strong and healthy?
Seed's Checklist
What do plants need to grow strong and healthy?
A seed is the world's most patient little package. Tuck it into the dirt and it just sits there, looking like a tiny pebble that forgot how to be exciting. But inside, it's waiting — for a short list of very specific things. Give it those things, and it will turn into something taller than you. So what, exactly, is on the list?
First on the list: light. Plants are the only chefs in nature who cook using sunshine. Their leaves catch sunlight and use it to mix water and air into sugar — their food. This trick is called photosynthesis, which just means "putting things together with light." No sun, no sugar, no growing. A plant in a dark closet slowly turns pale and floppy, reaching desperately toward any glow it can find.
