A spectacular Walmart rescue!
By dragon54u
@dragon54u (31636)
United States
March 19, 2008 1:12pm CST
I feel sorry for all those poor neglected plants at Walmart. I love the clearance section--well, it's a sad place but I can get plants cheaply and nurture them back to health. Here is an orchid I got that was nearly dead. I paid $2 for it and it's rewarded me with beautiful blooms and has about 5 other shoots growing!
Do you have beautiful rescues? Let's hear about them!
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@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
19 Mar 08
Wow, that's wonderful! Orchids take special care, I know. I dated a guy when we were stationed in Hawaii and he had lots of them. You done good!
I don't have any success stories myself. I've too many plants here in the house anyway, but need to start looking at vegetables for container gardening.
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@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
19 Mar 08
I read up a little on it when I first got it and that helped. Mostly just watered, fed and loved it.
I have an african violet that I did everything wrong with, I found out later, and it's huge and thriving!
I've thought about container gardening with vegetables because I don't know if I'm able to dig the beds--this will be my first vegetable garden in 40 years! Please let us know your progress in this, I'm pretty sure that I'd rather do containers than digging!
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@miller1978 (1101)
• United States
19 Mar 08
Every year I buy the tomato plants that have been neglected. Last year I had 17 plants that I nursed all back to health. 2 were the pear tomato plants and the rest were all cherry tomatoes. Needless to say we had more than our share so I gave some to friends and family members. I will do it all over again this year, I only hope that I can get some BIG tomatoes this year as well.
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@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
19 Mar 08
I've never tried to grow tomatoes, I really don't like them except in salsa or canned ones that I use in chili--I guess they have to be hidden for me to eat them!
But that's wonderful you were able to take those poor things, make them healthy and then provide for others!
It's a shame that Walmart and other nurseries can't give their dying plants to a charitable organization (for a nice tax deduction, of course) so they can be grown for food or beauty and improve peoples' lives and neighborhoods.
@ersmommy1 (12588)
• United States
19 Mar 08
Good for you. For me that is just another consequence of Wal-mart. It looks beautiful, if that is the pink plant. I have no green thumb. So no rescues to report. Keep up the good work. These plants make the world brighter.
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@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
19 Mar 08
Thank you!
What's funny is that I was never able to grow plants with any success until I had children then all of a sudden I had a green thumb. Wierd, huh?
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