Take care with house plants. If you are unusually sensitive to moulds, you may not be able to tolerate indoor pot plants at all. Moulds grow in the soil, and in the more humid atmosphere around the foliage.
To avoid problems with plants, put a light gravel on the surface of the soil in each pot and water the plants by placing water in a dish or saucer underneath. Take care not to let them stand in pools of water, which encourages moulds.
If you have garden beds against the walls of your home, or pots or beds immediately under windows, these can often be concentrated sources of moulds. You would be best to move beds and pots away from direct proximity to the walls, so that moulds do not rise straight into the home. Similarly, compost heaps are best kept as far from the home as possible. Water butts also are a source of moulds. Take care with siting these.
Gardening produces some of the most intense concentrations of moulds possible. If you love gardening, you will probably have to find out by trial and error what you can tolerate and what you cannot. You probably would be best avoiding many gardening tasks such as cutting grass, raking leaves, composting and heavy digging, and should stay out of greenhouses.
You could come to a deal over gardening with a friend or a family member, that you do the bits that you can for them such as weeding or pruning – in return for them doing the bits that you cannot.
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