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My Favorite Price--Free

May 23rd, 2012 at 12:16 am

As many of you here at SA know, gardening can be expensive. And as many of you here know, it doesn't have to be. I have been wanting to get a spider plant for the bathroom for a while now. They are good at preventing mold and mildew from developing and now that the bathroom remodel is over I'm all for anything that will prevent that from being a problem.

I've priced them and the nice, lovely, huge ones at the garden stores are very expensive. And they don't seem to carry little ones. But my chiropractor has a beautiful large plant sitting on his front counter and I am forever eyeing it. Today he saw me looking at it and offered to let me take a start off of it. It's a prolific beast and he gives the babies away on occasion to prevent it overrunning its pot.

So I dug one out of the middle (you can't even see where I took it from) and wrapped it in a paper towel and brought it home. My mother gave me a pot to use that my cousin had given her full of some coleus that she brought home from a recent trip across the mountains and she'd just transplanted that. I cleaned out the pot and she gave me some potting soil she had and I planted it. It's been grown completely free of chemicals since he purchased it years ago and the potting soil I planted the baby in is organic.

This is what my little baby spider plant looks like now:



But with proper care it will one day look like this:



And for no out of pocket cost to me. I have exactly what I wanted for free and in time it'll be a thriving, gorgeous plant. I love how gardeners, or even indoor ones, are so generous with their plants.

Posted in Cutting Expenses, Gardening Organically, Sustainable Living | 4 Comments »

4 Responses to “My Favorite Price--Free”

  1. ThriftoRama Says:
    May 23rd, 2012 at 12:54 am 1337734497
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    Yep. That's the way to do it. I once took a baby off a spider plant at a job in 1995. I lost it in Hurricane Katrina in 2005!

  2. Looking Forward Says:
    May 23rd, 2012 at 02:56 am 1337741818
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    Neat! I didn't know spider plants helped with mold.

  3. baselle Says:
    May 23rd, 2012 at 09:26 pm 1337808385
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    I have 5 lovely large irises in bloom that we got from a cardboard mat on the sidewalk that said FREE on it. And I split a now too large in one pot christmas cactus plant into two. Got it as a little gift sprig at work 11 years ago.

  4. LuckyRobin Says:
    May 31st, 2012 at 03:35 pm 1338478506
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    Baselle--People are forever giving away irises here. I don't think I've ever purchased one.

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