How to repot your plants so they grow to be strong and healthy

If you have any houseplants and you want to keep them alive, listen up!

You need to repot your plants and spring weather presents the perfect time do so. Repotting basically means putting your plants into a slightly larger pot in order to give the roots more room to grow.

According to The Washington Post's garden columnist Adrian Higgins, "You need to repot a houseplant because in nature, they grow on the jungle floor. But when you grow anything in a pot, in a container, it’s in an artificially constrained environment. And those roots are going to eventually get strangled upon themselves.”

Check out Higgins' steps for repotting plants below and watch exactly how he does it in the video above!