Snake Plant
I have a snake plant in a rather large pot and I've had it in the same place for a number of years. The other day I noticed that it has fallen into hard times. I'm not sure what has happened to the soil in it, but I saw that there is much less soil in it and the plants are starting to lean over because of lack of support. There is a lot of soil down in the saucer of the pot. It's a mystery to me how that has been happened? Besides that, the pot is cracking. Maybe the soil has been sifting out through the places where the pot is breaking, but the soil is so evenly distributed in the saucer that I think that's not it. I don't like this kind of mystery.
I'll get it outside today and get it planted in a new pot.
Submitted by
NJ
at 6/21/2005 1:45:19 PM- I neglected to say that I've had the plant in a corner in the living room, so it's not a squirrel. The dogs may have bothered it some but the soil is sort of sifted into the saucer and I did think of ants but hoped it wouldn't be that. I took it outside and got half the plant out of it, and there were no ants. I potted up that part of the plant. I don't have another pot as big as the one they were in. Later I'll pot the rest in another sort of big pot and then throw the old one away.
The squirrel has been hiding sunflower seeds in my outdoor flower pots and they are growing there. The seeds I planted didn't come up, but the ones the squirrel planted did. Wonder why.
Submitted by
Leslie
at 6/21/2005 6:20:58 PM- The squirrels must have that magic touch. ;)
The snake plant is also referred to as the mother-in-law's tongue or something like that, isn't it? That makes me chuckle.
Submitted by
NJ
at 6/21/2005 7:11:43 PM- Yes, because it's long and pointy, I guess.
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could it be a squirrell? They love to dig in pots and bury things there. Or ants.