R.I.P. two pots of oak leaf lettuce and a little spiderplant
Dear Nature,
Please stop eating my plants. It makes me sad.
Yours,
_kli_
For some reason (perhaps that orchestra is over for the semester?), I'm hyper right now. Being hyper and coming home to discover I needed to throw out three of my plants makes for an angry _kli_.
Only a few weeks after spider mites ate a bunch of my plants, out of nowhere, I got an infestation of aphids. (I think that's what they are.) Big, green, and deeply evil. They're like the Jack the Rippers of houseplant pests.
Just eating my dear sweet young plants isn't enough for them. No, they need to kill them in lots of different ways. Most absurd was a leaf of lettuce that was stretched across the entire top surface of the pot, so thin I was amazed it didn't break, with a centimeter of the tip somehow stuck to the opposite side of the outer pot. Other leaves were wrinkled vertically without having lost any length. Some were so thin they were nearly transparent; some had brown spots; some were the usual sort of shriveled dead brown plant. Some stood up straight; others were shrunken; still others were stuck to the outside of the pot or the window. The spiderplant's leaves were curled under. It's absurd. These bugs are freakin' sick.
I don't understand why my poor plants have to keep suffering through these infestations. I know I could have prevented the second one, but I don't know what could have possibly caused this one. I haven't added any new plants in a long time, and now that it's been colder, I haven't had the window open much lately. Aaaaaaaaaaaargh...
My stomach is telling me it's very hungry (and it should--I've hardly eaten all day), but I've completely lost my appetite.
Please stop eating my plants. It makes me sad.
Yours,
_kli_
For some reason (perhaps that orchestra is over for the semester?), I'm hyper right now. Being hyper and coming home to discover I needed to throw out three of my plants makes for an angry _kli_.
Only a few weeks after spider mites ate a bunch of my plants, out of nowhere, I got an infestation of aphids. (I think that's what they are.) Big, green, and deeply evil. They're like the Jack the Rippers of houseplant pests.
Just eating my dear sweet young plants isn't enough for them. No, they need to kill them in lots of different ways. Most absurd was a leaf of lettuce that was stretched across the entire top surface of the pot, so thin I was amazed it didn't break, with a centimeter of the tip somehow stuck to the opposite side of the outer pot. Other leaves were wrinkled vertically without having lost any length. Some were so thin they were nearly transparent; some had brown spots; some were the usual sort of shriveled dead brown plant. Some stood up straight; others were shrunken; still others were stuck to the outside of the pot or the window. The spiderplant's leaves were curled under. It's absurd. These bugs are freakin' sick.
I don't understand why my poor plants have to keep suffering through these infestations. I know I could have prevented the second one, but I don't know what could have possibly caused this one. I haven't added any new plants in a long time, and now that it's been colder, I haven't had the window open much lately. Aaaaaaaaaaaargh...
My stomach is telling me it's very hungry (and it should--I've hardly eaten all day), but I've completely lost my appetite.