All's well with the world...

[caddyman]

Ah, the weekend.

Got up late and mucked about for a while. Got dressed, went to the pub for a pint of lager and an all-day breakfast. Most toothsome, but now I am full.

I am now back home and think I may take a post prandial nap while listening to mt iPod.

ellefurtle has wandered off to the hairdressers, then she is off to B&Q to buy seeds, plant pots and things for her next attempt to grow chives and chillis and stuff. I am going to have my hands full here; plants rarely survive the touch of the Furtle, so I may have to step in at some point to care for our little greenlings.

Apparently she has managed in the past to murder a mint plant. Mint is immortal, only a Furtle can kill it. It is a minor miracle that my Madagascar Dragon Tree, Bilbo has survived (and has recently been repotted). I have managed to resuscitate one of the four rose plants she was given and though it grows at an odd angle, it has produced a rose:


It smells very nice, too.

Comments

[fredlums.livejournal.com]

If it be any consolation my Mum murder an artificial plant. It literally turned yellow, brown and all the leaves dropped off. Yes it was definitely plastic!!

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

She milled *mint*...how ??? That must have been deliberate MURDER !

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Au contraire. I am advised - and who am I to argue - that she lavished care and attention on it. She loved it to death...

[ellefurtle.livejournal.com]

I nurtured it. It died. This more than once....

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

Last week I 'repotted' my mint which entailed throwing the pot contents away, refilling the pot of compost and then ripping a stem off the old plant and poking it in the pot. It's happily growing away, I do this twice a yeah. You are a MURDERER.

[ellefurtle.livejournal.com]

_{I know!}

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

I killed a spider plant. I am death to indoor plants but gardening I can do. I have grown tomatoes this year we ate at least two pounds and then I made three 500gram jars of green tomato chutney. I have also given the wisteria a severe haircut that everyone said would kill it and it is now full of leaf and sending out tentacles.
Indoor plants and clematis do not survive

[fractalgeek.livejournal.com]

You can kill mint. Scorched earth (a year of drough, followed by a bulldozer with flame attachment) or several weeks under water will do it. It is hard, though.