Friday, May 23, 2014

New Soil For 2014, My Plants Are Very Happy


I had put this off a little longer then I wanted too but finally got a big bag of soil for these poor plants.  I got all but a few done in 3 days but lost my ump to do the remaining 4 or 5.  You don't realize how many you have until you're changing soil. I was pleasantly surprised to see good roots  on some of the cutting I had recently put in dirt. It is so fun to see how the roots looks, sometimes you have a big plant you expect to have lots and they don't.   I also moved things around a little, trying to make some more walk room in the my "plant area", I am still hoping to get some out of that room and put around the house but light rules.  So they stay where they are for now.  I need to make some hanging planters for the plants that can hang, that wold make a little more room but with me that will just make me get more plants.


I have some cutting for my mother-in-law, she lost a lot of her plants when she moved. So I thought I would be the good daughter-in-law and help her replenish her stock.  I don't know when we will be making a trip across state lines but I hope to have some ready to go when we do.   A local friend on mine is supposed to come pick up some Spider Plants from my last batch of babies that are in soil and ready to go, but she is a busy person and hasn't come yet.  I have some new Spider babies in water so I need the room, cause they don't stay in the water too long.

      This is just half of what I cut off, I am worried about the main Spider Plant cause it doesn't seem to be growing the babies as fast as it did last year. But it is still early in the year so we will see. I may end up having to keep some of these babies.