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    TOOLS, LIGHT AND WATERING

    Aug 04, 2020 4 minutes
    Words: Ian Drummond / Kara O’Reilly

    TOOLS

    Very little specialist equipment is needed for good plant care but as your obsession grows you might like treat yourself to an elegant mister and miniature gardening tools.

    LIGHT

    The basic building blocks for every plant’s survival are light, water and carbon dioxide. Our school biology classes may remind us why they’re crucial: a plant ‘drinks’ water, ‘breathes’ carbon dioxide and harnesses light to photosynthesise, using the chloroplasts (which give a plant its green colour) in its leaf cells to convert light energy into sugar, or, in other words, plant food. Oxygen is a

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