Indoor Plant - Nephrolepsis- Boston Fern -House Plant in a Hanging Pot

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Boston ferns don’t require excessive fertilizers, so you only need to apply occasional applications. In your home garden, you’ll need to mimic that by providing around two hours of indirect sunlight every day. Re-pot Boston Ferns in spring, using a pot only one size larger than the existing pot to avoid drowning the root ball. For outdoor ferns, make sure you amend the soil with 1 inch of compost and mulch annually to maintain good growing conditions.

Boston Fern Care Guide (Everything You Need to Know) Boston Fern Care Guide (Everything You Need to Know)

Indoor and outdoor ferns can also suffer from blight, a fungal infection that will leave the plant covered in a brow web-like mycelium. In about a week, check the pot or garden for a thin green haze (prothallia) that contains the sperm and the egg. Sword ferns hail from swamps and rainforests in south America and the West Indies, which gives plenty of clues about the conditions that the Boston fern likes – a warm, humid atmosphere, moist soil and no direct sunlight. Misting your fern helps to raise the ambient humidity and is a must-do practice if you live in a dry climate. Although it’s not as common as the division method, you can still use these runners to propagate your Boston fern.This usually requires weekly waterings for indoor plants and more frequent waterings for those grown outside in warm environments. You can find out more about our use, change your default settings, and withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by visiting Cookies Settings, which can also be found in the footer of the site. If you live in a subtropical zone that doesn’t frost or have freezing temperatures, overwintering Boston ferns outside is possible.

How to grow Boston fern - BBC Gardeners World Magazine How to grow Boston fern - BBC Gardeners World Magazine

So, if you live somewhere with dry air, you might want to invest in a small room humidifier and keep the Boston ferns as a strictly indoor plant.Most have only a faint woodsy scent unless they have been overwatered, in which case they can smell musty. Choosing between them depends on the available space and whether you want to keep companion plants in the same spot. Depending on light exposure, your Boston Fern will need water twice weekly to daily during the growing season.