ALOE VERA PLANTS TRASH TO GARDENING TREASURE

Regular readers know that I have a favorite place to look for bargains...our downstairs trash area!  Our building has trash chutes on every floor, and they feed into a separate room, but for boxes and other things that people can't put in the chute, there is an area (indoor) near the loading dock where people can put the things they don't want.  I've found quite a few cool items over the last few years.

I was taking some of our empty boxes (I break ours down by the way, like you're SUPPOSED to do, ha, but I digress).  I walked in and saw these two aloe vera plants.  We had a nice one at the farm, but we missed it one year in the freeze and it never recovered.  I told 2nd Man we needed to get one to have at the new house and then these fell into my lap!

Two nice and healthy aloe plants, one in a plastic pot, the other in a nice, colorful, clay pot.  I'll repot the plastic one into a clay pot but otherwise, these are great plants in great shape and now we have two new plants for the porch at the new house.  Aloe is always great for burns (and maybe even wasp stings?).

For now, they will live on the balcony at the apartment so I can keep an eye on them and bring them in this Winter and then they'll be at the farm.  Maybe one on the front porch and one on the back porch.