Jun 15, 2006 9:00 am103 views
Shelley Siuts said she always has loved gardening, but for some unknown reason all her houseplants seemed to wither away. At the urging of some friends, Siuts joined the UI Master Gardeners program. Siuts, an information technology specialist in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, began the online training course in January and soon solved the mystery about why her houseplants were withering: the water-softener salt in her tap water was toxic to them and she needed to rotate the pots around the house to vary their exposure to sunlight.