How to Care for Aloe Vera Plants

Last night someone asked me on Facebook, how to care for aloe vera plants. My first implus was to say, "Go read all over my website: https://aloe-vera-and-handy-herbs.com it has over 100 pages on it and most of them are about aloe vera - even how to use it for medicinal purposes."

Later it occurred to me that I should make a little leaflet that I can give away with the plants to indicate to those new to them, what they need to do for basic care.

Allow me to do a bit of brainstorming here.

1. Aloe vera plants are from the succulent family (that's the cactus clan). So they don't like to be over- watered. I've been doing it once a week for years, but heard a woman/expert on Youtube saying that twice a week is enough. However, since I used just peat moss this time for this batch of plants, and that moss dries out quite fast, I will continue with once a week and watch to see if they thrive or get droopy.

2. Try not to get water on the leaves. Those leaves will turn yellow and go limp. Wasted.

3. Aloe vera plants don't like to be in direct hot sunshine. Indirect light, like beside a south window rather than in front of it. Oh, you could hang a sheer curtain over the window to diffuse the light somewhat. (The plants I put in the windows facing north thrive the best, and grow the largest!)

4. When the aloe plant has grown so that the leaves are plump and full of gel, you may cut off a leave, wipe or wash it clean, slice it open on one side, and lay it on a cutting board or a long oval plate. using a spoon, scrap the gel out. This is the healing stuff! Mix it with a juice in a blender, or apply it to open sores or burn wounds.

My website shown above, has photo stories of how my hand was healed from a second-degree, with no scar tissue whatsoever. My Dad was healed of a stomach ulcer in 4 weeks, and of shingles in 4 days.

There are also many aloe vera experts who love to teach and show what they know on their Youtube channel. Just do a search and soon you will have plenty of knowledge to apply.

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Ways to Transfer Photos from Camera or Phone

If you want to transfer your photos from a digital camera or your cell phone to your desktop computer so you can work on them, you may find that the memory card is too small to fit into any card-reading slot on your desktop.

I have found one or two answers.

One I got a long time ago from an electronics shop that has shut down, was to buy a USB stick with a slot in the side for my camera's memory card. That has worked wonderfully fine and still does.

However, I was given another digital camera with a wee tiny memory card that doesn't fit into my USB transfer device. Nor does the tiny SD card from my phone.

I asked at Staples the other week and was shown a carrier card for the tiny ones (unfortunately it does not fit all sizes), but the very tiniest cards can be slipped into this carrier which is the right size for my transfer USB stick. Then I put that stick into my USB port on the desktop, and voila, my photos show up there, and I can slide them over to a folder on the desktop for safe keeping and for polishing work, like resizing, cropping, or lightening or darkening the colours.

I know there have to be more ways to do such transfers, so I'm still looking for them. Do you know any?

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