Re: re: ivy & bad luck?

**"Marge Talt" m*@hort.net**

Never have heard of growing ivy indoors being bad luck.  Have grown
it inside and outside since I began my experiments in killing plants
many years ago.

Spider mites are due (mostly) to air being too dry in heated houses
in winter...dunk the plants periodically, mist or set pots on trays
of pebbles with water to top of pebbles to increase relative humidity
around plants.  Spider mites do not like moisture.

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: e.merge <hanna@direct.ca>
> To: gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [GWL] re: ivy & bad luck?
> Date: Monday, September 02, 2002 2:52 PM
> 
> My mother used to grow ivy indoors. So did my grandmother. In fact,
> everyone seemed to have ivy indoors when I was a child in little
containers
> above the sink....things their kids made them at school, and
various other
> tacky and not-so-tacky containers. My mother had one in a little
> tired-looking burro...the ivy grew in his little burdensome 'cart'
behind
> him. 
> 
> At some point I heard (don't remember the source) that it is "bad
luck" to
> grow ivy indoors. Since then I've always been chicken to grow it
inside,
> although it can look wonderful.....I do know that for some reason
when
> grown indoors, it seems prone to spider mites.
> 
> Does anyone know the source of this 'bad luck' business?
> 
> S
> Sharon H. Hanna
> Writer & Urban Agriculturist
> Member, Garden Writers Association
> (604) 736 1889
> 

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