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By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
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I'm not doing my garden this year. Its too likely that I won't be here on certain days to care for it, and I already have a stockpile of seeds that should last some years. I planted about 50 lettuce and a bunch of radishes, all from seed, but that's it. Neither of those vegetables needs much care and I'll probably be pulling them to eat within a few weeks.

But I do have a number of houseplants that have been indoors for too long, and we're now at the time of year when they can spend some time outside in the sunlight. Some of these plants cannot handle sub-50° even briefly, so I'm bringing all the plants back inside most nights.

Today was a little odd in that I had an extremely full aloe plant that hadn't been watered in a couple of weeks. I set it down on the deck and the entire plant fell out of its pot. This is stranger than you might think because aloe doesn't grow as a single stalk. It spreads and comes up all over, kind of like grass. So it really is strange to say that the entire plant fell out. There were dozens of clumps of it lying on my deck!

I think what happened is that the plants were only rooted around the perimeter of the pot, with nothing coming up in the center. Their roots were therefore not gripping the roots of plants on the other side, and in dry potting soil, they easily flopped over the edge of the pot and fell. If the soil hadn't been so dry, this might not have happened.

I re-planted some of the bigger clumps and filled an entire 5-gallon bucket with the detritus. I have several aloe plants and don't need or want any more, so I'm debating what to do with the leftovers. Aloe won't survive a NH winter, so there's no point in planting it in the ground. (Without question, I'd be doing that if I lived in the South or Southwest.) I may stick a table up at the road and invite passers by to take any pieces they want. Aloe is hardy and will thrive if a gardener just put a clump of it into a pot and occasionally waters it. I'd much rather do that than just dump it.




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