Organic Business in my backyard
Are you familiar with “wandering Jews”? No, not the Diaspora kind, the backyard plant kind. As the hellish summer of 2011 brought so many of our backyard plants to an end, due to the heat, these Jews simply thrive in all kinds of soil, with little or no water for long periods. Unlike other plants in the beds, and in the pots surrounding our backyard, I have not killed them! Here’s what a web resource for House Plants described them as-- Common Name: Wandering Jew, Chain Plant, Purple Heart Plant; Genus: Tradescantia Family: Commelinaceae; Plant Type: Perennial; Origin: South America These plants have proliferated all over our backyard. The origin of this planting is my mother-in-law, Fran Porter, who was enthusiastic about these miracle plants( Fran was enthusiastic about many things, mostly encouraging others to live up to their potential!) and gave us a few sprigs back before she got ill, sometime before 2005. Now I see these plants growing freely and exhibiting so man