I was never all that good with house plants and hastened quite a few along to an early demise until I moved to this one apartment building and my upstairs neighbor gave me a piece of their aloe vera.  Their aloe plant was enormous, and looked like it was on the verge of ripping their window box off the edge of the kitchen window.  "If it shrivels, it needs water, if it gets yellow, it needs more light.  It's easy," he said. ... http://www.squidoo.com/aloe Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:43:18 -0600 FeedCreator 1.7.2 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:11:45 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/aloe I was never all that good with house plants and hastened quite a few along to an early demise until I moved to this one apartment building and my upstairs neighbor gave me a piece of their aloe vera.  Their aloe plant was enormous, and looked like it was on the verge of ripping their window box off the edge of the kitchen window.  "If it shrivels, it needs water, if it gets yellow, it needs more light.  It's easy," he said. "Honey, if this took any actual effort, I'd have killed it myself." Okay, he had me convinced... Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:11:45 -0600