I Can’t Stop Growing Plants by Sheri LeClair Banitt

Since I am mostly homebound due to Covid 19, I have been working my hobbies with great intensity. I have always enjoyed growing plants and gardening indoors as well as outdoors. Now I am just pulling out the seeds and mini pots and planting interesting stuff.

If you peruse the picture gallery, you will see that I have several cute plants in the pretty lady pots from Target. They make me smile. Then I have a tiny spider plant grown from a much larger spider plant. There is a teeny tiny succulent that grew from a seed, from a flower from another succulent in the window. Finally, there is a pinecone I picked before it opened and spilled its seeds. I am hoping it will become my bonsai tree.

African violets are one of my favorite house plants. I remember my Grandma Vern grew them. My mother in law also had a favorite purple violet. One in my window is a cutting from hers, though she has been gone for many years now. There are so many colors of leaves and colors of flowers on these plants and they continue to multiply from the roots and they can be propagated from the leaves.

I love that even though it is autumn in Minnesota, I can still have blooms indoors. There are blossoms on my Asian Pepper and I have a lemon growing on my scraggly Meyers Lemon tree. I am also attempting to sprout trees from a couple of avocado pits. Nothing yet, but I haven’t given up. I think it takes a really long time.

I put my sickly Meyers Lemon tree outside for the summer and it came back to life. Now that cold weather is approaching, I brought it indoors. I am determined to keep it healthy this winter, so I bought a grow light to keep it sunny. I put crushed egg shells in the dirt and I’m trying really hard not to overwater it. Wish me luck!