Aloe Vera

 I have a metric buttload of aloe vera plants. Is this safe to plant,
say, in the vicinity of a lawn, or is it going to try and srpead into
it by running under the planter borders? Is this like bamboo,
basically best grown in a container unless you don't mind living in a
forest of it? I have some huge ones  in large containers, and they
seem to fill it to the borders with small plants.

 
It's not an invasive plant like bamboo.  It's easy to pull out and dispose
of if you don't want the young ones.

 On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 18:55:54 +1000 in


Thanks... I'm just picturing my back lawn having aloe growing up
through it all of a sudden.

 Craig said:

This is an old tip that I've never had the occasion to test directly (but I
will comment more after):

Drive a small spade down in one or two spots  around one of your
plants and cut a few roots.  This might shock the plant into ripening
the tomatoes.

OK, this year one of the new varieties I was trying was not ripening any
tomatoes, not even a hint of color, even after all the others were doing
so.  It was so full of green tomatoes that the stake was leaning over
threatening to crash into the fence. (I have electric wires at the top so
this would have been a Bad Thing.)   I drove in a couple of small stakes
to tie off the larger one and stop the leaning.  And shortly after that, a
whole bunch of tomatoes on that plant started turning red.

 Now, I would think this was entirely coincidental, except for having
remembered that old advice.  So I may have unintentionally confirmed it
works.  Or, maybe not.  I doubt it would hurt to try.

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