Houseplant Starts, Your Free Air Cleaners

Some plants are so easy to propagate, it’s ridiculous. You just take a piece of the plant, stick it in water and before long, roots! When I trim my pothos, I can’t bear to throw out the trimmings. Instead I sprout them. The spider plants are even simpler, since they send out babies all by themselves.

Not only are propagated plants cheap/free, these houseplants plants clean the nasties out of your indoor air. New countertops, synthetic rugs, plastic shower curtains, paint... all possible sources of VOCs that reduce indoor air quality (benzene, formaldehyde, trichloroethylene, all carcinogenic). But these babies suck it all in and clean it up, giving you sweet oxygen in return, some better than others (check link above for the best ones).

If you need a start, come by and I'll hook you up. Before long, you will be making more, they grow like crazy. They are the sourdough bread start of the plant world.