Tropicals & Tender Perennials: No luck propagating, 0 by BLOSSOMBUDDY

BLOSSOMBUDDY wrote:
Well, my current house is a bit tough on house plants but I have discovered shear volume makes a difference. If I just have a few the house is too dry. I have two large plant stands loaded along with plants here and there in most of the rooms and with them all watered, the humidity is so much better. Takes me four days to water! (only because I am a finger pot poker whenit comes to watering.) But they all are a real pain in the tush making messes so I am really looking forward to spring and to boot them out of here to my GPS and start gardening outdoors. I will be starting seeds in the livingroom soon enough.. so im gonna have to clear some spaces to get those going to try to get a jump on stuff.

I really miss our old farm house. I had plants up the kazoo in the crawlspace. I could water with a hose down there and not worry about the mess until spring. Here I need to be carefull of the carpets..always cleaning and the crawl is to short and so I cannot stand up to do anything down there..

The first year we got our GPS I started enough plants in it and the old crawl to plant an acre. I had some 70 varieties of mums, umteen varieties of perennials, bulbs and a ton of annuals and veggies going.

When we moved we dug up that acre and brought all the plants here. My domestic gardens are about 3 acres here. Most of the perennials we brought are no longer with us, but have been replaced by something that will grow here. We flood so I will lose a bunch to that if they cannot handle the standing water. I have some 500+ varieties of dayliles out there and misc perennials.

Yeah, I will have to admit, the tropical houseplants are somewhat of a phase until I kill them and have to do something else! Dang gardening is an addiction.