I blame the snow

It seems like my last surviving spider plant didn't take kindly to being left out in the snow for a third winter:Does anybody think it will stage a comeback, as it has done so many times before?

The War On Spider Plants: Endgame?

I took pity on the last spider plant to survive the February onslaught of snow (the one in the front left hand pot of the photo' I posted in July) and repotted it. It did very well over the summer, but by last weekend, the freezing weather had not done it much good at all. Let's see what happens once it's been buried under an inch of snow for a day or two.

Spider plants - update

Two and a half years of total neglect seem to have paid off/taken their total*. They all died off after the snow and cold weather last winter, and only one little one has reappeared (front left hand pot):* Delete according to taste.

The War on Spider Plants: Year Two

The spider plants managed to make a full recovery after being nearly wiped out by the snows of last February, but the freezing conditions and snow of the last couple of weeks have put paid all to that:

Green shoots

It looks as if I spoke too soon.

I thought I had discovered a cure for spider plants a couple of months ago, but here's what the same six pots look like now. Look closely, and you'll see that two are sprouting nicely, three are struggling back to life and one has a suspiciously fat looking root lurking just below the surface:
In my defence, the edges of the leaves are looking decidedly ragged, so maybe the slugs will come and finish them off?

The only known cure for spider plants

Growing spider plants is quite easy, even for somebody as horticulturally challenged as I am - you just snip off the new shoots, stick them in mud, water them a bit and hey presto, dozens of new spider plants. Doing the reverse is a bit trickier, but I think I've cracked it. First you leave them in a dimly lit garage for six months without watering them, then you leave them outside during an unusually cold winter (six inches of snow helps), and you should end up with something that looks like this:

Glad to have cleared that up.

For my next lesson, I will explain why coins and notes are nothing more or less than non-interest paying, small denomination IOU's issued by the government, redeemable at the bearer's demand, despite what the conspiracy theorists have to say on the matter.