Hack Gardener Smitten by Wandering Jew
I love this crazy creature. I picked it up on a whim several weeks ago. It is completely out of control and keeps growing with no effort on my part whatsoever.
As if its sheer size and zeal for life isn't enough reason to love it, I noticed today that when pieces of it break off, they work their way into the earth and start growing again. Perhaps this is common knowledge to everyone except me? Perhaps this is why it "wanders"? A chunk of it accidentally fell into my ivy on the front step and it has grown considerably. I wonder how big it will get? Will it take over the ivy? Fight, fight!
I think I'm going to break off a whole bunch of it tomorrow and just spread it around everywhere.
posted by Ugly Juice @ 8:19 PM
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Why is your plant eating Spider Man? For that matter, why is Spider Man sleeping on your tree?
You can root most house plants by beaking off a shoot and putting the shoot in water for a few days. Shad's Gramma Shirley gets most of her house plants by pinching pieces of plants from pots in restaurants, garden centers, funeral homes, etc.
I used to have an amazing wandering Jew (can't for the life of me think of the politically correct name for the plant!) Anyway, the plant was lush and large enough to cascade over the wooden wire spool I was using as a coffee table. Shad hoed it up one morning with his first (and last) set of plastic gardening toys. He was 3 years old and quite pleased that he had managed to "weed" the coffee table.
The plant wont' survive the winter outside, so find a nice sunny window to hang the pot from and turn the plant every other day of so to keep it from becoming really thin on the shady side.
How are my pansies doing?
Hey Anna,
I didn't want to clog up your phone line now. I figure there are more important people to contact. And I don't have your email (but I do have Shad's). So I thought I'd leave a note here.
If there's anything Lisa and I can do to help out let us know. Tell Shad to take some time off and relax, and remember we're thinking of y'all.
I think you should kill this plant now. Have you ever heard of Kudzu? Buckthorn?? Milfoil? Big-head Asian Carp?? I think this is how such plagues are born. Kill the plant before it becomes another scourge on our land.
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