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Gardening tips thread

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Spider plants, snake plants, aloe vera, devil's ivy, hens and chicks, and xmas cactus seem to enjoy it indoors at our crib. Hope you find some that do well. Oh yeah...a shamrock plant, too. That one entertains me as it's so easy to tell when it needs a drink and it reaches for the light each day and closes up to rest at night.

Okay so.. not really so much about gardening... but having moved to a place where there actually IS a winter with ice and snow and sub freezing temperatures. Can I get some tips about rose bushes, landscaping and how to winterize???? We haven't a clue.

Not sure about that kind of stuff. We had rose bushes at our last place, but they didn't seem to need much of a helping hand and came back each year just fine. I'd throw banana peels around the bottoms of them quite often, but other than that, nada. Nature seemed to take care of all of that stuff for us.
 
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You know, it's funny, people tell me I can make anything grow, but I've never been able to grow plan...
Dharma, I haven't been able to grow anything because of my drafty apartment, but I'm hoping the curtains I'm putting up will keep it about 70 - 72 degrees F in here. ;) I admire anyone who can keep plants alive. My mom likes to joke she's a "black thumb" but her mom had a garden in the back yard every year!
 
When I lived in the mountains where we got snow each year, I did not have a greenhouse so I improvised by throwing plastic trash bags over the delicate pot of finger cactus I had in a large pot and it would survive the winter like that and bloom beautiful orange red flowers each summer. i have heard of people throwing clear bags around their more delicate shrubs too.
 
Hi guys, I just found a yellow house spider on a web on the bottom leaves of my peace lily. Is it ok if I leave the spider where it is or is it harming my peace lily?

I want to be clear that they aren't spider MITES, but it is just a lonely spider. I'm worried that s/he's in there because there are already other bugs, but I looked for classic signs of other infestation bugs for the peace lily and there aren't any. :)
 
I found the greenhouse (a very small one) to be disappointing and frustrating last year, but it was my own fault for not learning more about it before diving right in, as I so often do. I ended up killing my seedlings because I didn't water them enough. I wrongly assumed they'd naturally stay damp longer with all of that condensation all over the walls of it, without connecting the dots that the condensation was the water being sucked out of the plants from all that heat in there. Great learning experience and I'll know how to proceed a bit better next year. Dealing with plant life of any sort is deeply therapeutic for my being, once I learned to better navigate the frustrations known as life via my breath and my consumption habits.
 
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