Growing Organic Aloe Vera

It’s a great idea to have a space in your organic garden to grow a few aloe plants. They are fairly easy to grow and propagate as they are succulents. They grow really well in my area and any temperate zone as they are a semi-desert plant. If you live in a colder climate, just grow it in pots and bring indoors or in a green house during winter. Don’t over-water.

This is a plant I’ve propagated and is doing really well. I just pushed a piece of the parent plant into my vegetable patch and about 20 little plants came up over about 2 months.

If you want to propagate your own aloes, you just dig up a “pup” – the little plantlets that grow next to the main plant – and pot it into a light, well-drained potting mix. This plant does best with about 4 hours sun a day.

Use the juicy flesh by breaking a small piece off and squeezing it. You can use it to relieve the pain of scrapes, insect bites and burns – great for easing the pain of sunburn. You can see how often I might use it seeing as I spend quite a bit of time organic gardening. Bites, scrapes and sunburn are par for the course for me! But I do take care as far as preventing sunburn goes, but sometimes I don’t intend to be in the garden long and before I know it an hour has gone by.

I hope you consider growing a few aloe plants in your organic garden as they are wonderful plants that give so much, while asking for so little.

Happy Organic Gardening, Healthy Living…

Julie

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