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Replanting

WAIT KAREENA, 

   I know your peace lilies probably died a peaceful death in the cold
garage and not from parasites or anything, but I heartily recommend
using that soil in your compost pile or veggie garden.  It has taken me
a long time to learn that the price if dirt is not so high that all my
new pots and repottings need to be in new soil. Period. Houseplants'
soil  accumulate salts, mites, and who knows what else. And the most
successful indoor gardeners I know repot their plants in fresh new dirt
every year. I am still trying to get all mine repotted every two years
but it makes a huge difference at my house. 

   If you put a favorite begonia in used soil and it dies you'll kick
yourself for not spending a couple of bucks on dirt. As I get more
skilled I try to kill them in new ways every time. This hobby gets
boring and fatally dissappointing if you keep terminating them the same
way every time. The solution is as "Cheap as Dirt"! 
   And the last 3 begonias I ruined it was due to overwatering, so help
that "wet" pot with better drainage or mix more sand in the [new] soil.
Plus, I always soak my pots in dilute bleach before giving them a new
plant.
     [I have to admit I frequently have to kill a plant three times
before I begin to recognize the correct reason. Thanks to the list here
for lots of valuable insight for the insight challenged like me.]

   The egglike white and yellow things may be a time release fertilizer
put there by the grower who potted it. I always put them in my soil mix.
There are also similar brown "pods" found in peat which I presume are
sterile "pods or eggcases". They do resemble fly eggs, but I think
horticultural peat is sterilized by steam autoclave anyhow.

Tim Chavez  Z6 Wichita, Kansas  
Crocus and Anemones are blooming. Pyrethrum, Aquilegia, and Platycodon
are sending up their first shoots under the thin leaf mulch. 4 flats of
seedlings have my sap running high and fast. A friend gave me some soil
called Baccto-dark and it works great!

-Hello all!
-	Today I decided to give my 2 dead peace lily plants a 
-burial and transplanted other plants into their soil.  In one, I put a 
-Indian rubber tree and I put my Oxalis shamrock in the other.  
-   Question 1:  When I pulled out my peace lily plant from the 10"
-pot it was in, I saw a lot of little yellow bead-like objects that
-excreted liquid of some type when squeezed.  What is this?
-   Question 2:  When I pulled out my spathiphyllum from the 6" pot,
-I saw a lot of little white objects which almost resembled eggs.  
-However, I didn't find any bugs or spiders anywhere.  What are
-they? 
-   Question 3:  I was thinking of putting my begonia's into the 6" pot
-but I noticed that the soil is very wet inside that pot.  Will it hurt
the 
-begonia if I transplanted it into that soil or should I let it dry?  If
so,
-how long?
-   Kareena Holloway

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