Let's Learn How To Grow Aloe Vera At Home

Aloe Vera is a sort of succulent plant which grows in dry climates like Africa and India

. It is primarily popular as a medicinal plant and is used to treat burns, soothe sunburns and is in some cases smeared on the face for clearer skin. Aloe Vera on its own is a beautiful plant to have in your residence but the additional medicinal uses make it an even more useful plant to have around. As such here are a couple tips to help you grow and maintain a healthy Aloe Vera plant of your own.

Required Tools

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Required Materials

Aloe Vera plant

Potting mix

Pot with drainage hole

Pebbles

Fertilizer

Instructions

First choose a location for your aloe plant which has rich soil, good drainage and full sunlight coverage. If you are planting your aloe in a pot, combine the potting mix, pebbles, and fertilizer to create rich soil for the plant. Cover the bottom of the pot with pebbles or gravel to give drainage for the plant. Place the potting mix into a pot about 18 inches in diameter so that the aloe can grow to its maximum size and set the aloe plant into it.

Your aloe plant ought to be watered at least one time each week with one or two cups of water. In hot months though, you can soak the aloe completely as long as it has good drainage to keep the roots from rotting.

Other than water and sunlight aloe plants are pretty easy to care for. It is recommended that you take out all weeds from around the plant as weeds can upset the pH balance of the soil and affect the aloe plant. Adding ammonium nitrate to the soil yearly will be of great benefit to the aloe plant.

To employ the medicinal properties of Aloe Vera, cut a leaf near the base of the plant and peel away the outer layer of the leaf to get to the gel inside. Although people believe that the whole aloe leaf is medicinal, the outer layer possesses basically no nutrients and it is the gel inside that is vital. Therefore in the case of burns or insect stings, rub the gel onto the area to ease the pain or stinging.

Tips and Warnings

Aloe Vera is really frost tender as it is 95% water, so in cold climates aloe ought to be planted in a greenhouse and placed under a glass to protect it from the cold. If possible keep the aloe plant indoors in cold weather.

Aloe Vera is one of those plants which benefits from foliage feeding and not just root feeding, so when watering or fertilizing the plant, wet the leaves along with the roots.

If you want suckers from your aloe plant, aloe plants can be grown from seeds but are more commonly grown by planting the offspring which are produced around the base of the plant.

If your aloe plant begins to wither, or brown at the tips, increase watering regularity to 2-3 times per day until the plant is restored.

by: Brian Jones

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