What’s on the What Plants Need poster
A 6-row table: Need · Too little · Too much.
Everything a plant needs, and the common failure for each.
- Light — Leggy, pale, no flowers — Scorched leaves
- Water — Wilting, crisp edges — Yellow leaves, root rot
- Drainage — — — Waterlogging kills roots
- Nutrients — Pale, stunted — Leaf burn, salt crust
- Air — Stagnant, mould — —
- Space — Root-bound — —
Yellow lower leaves usually mean too much water. Crisp brown edges usually mean too little. They look similar and are opposite.
Questions about the What Plants Need poster
- What’s on the What Plants Need poster?
- A 6-row table: Need · Too little · Too much. Everything a plant needs, and the common failure for each. Light — Leggy, pale, no flowers — Scorched leaves; Water — Wilting, crisp edges — Yellow leaves, root rot; Drainage — — — Waterlogging kills roots; Nutrients — Pale, stunted — Leaf burn, salt crust; Air — Stagnant, mould — —; Space — Root-bound — —. Yellow lower leaves usually mean too much water. Crisp brown edges usually mean too little. They look similar and are opposite.
- Who is the What Plants Need poster for?
- What Plants Need belongs to the Practical skills section rather than to a school year, because life skills is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning garden can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the What Plants Need poster?
- More houseplants are killed by overwatering than by anything else. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so What Plants Need belongs on the wall where that life skills work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with What Plants Need?
- Plant Pests, Composting and Growing in Containers sit alongside What Plants Need in the Practical skills section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Plant PestsCompostingGrowing in Containers
- Is the What Plants Need poster free to download and print?
- Yes. What Plants Need downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Practical skills section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the What Plants Need poster print at?
- What Plants Need is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of What Plants Need loses nothing.Printing guide
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