Disappointment in a can

28 January 2009

Just over a fortnight after the only seedling in the can appeared … it keeled over and died. Well, that was fun. So much for “Pansy Watch”. I’d even made it its own category, so there’s gratitude for you. That can was meant to contain 8% seeds to 92% growing medium. The distributors of the product used to be my grandparents’ neighbours in Essex, so I totally know where they live and could well go and ask them what they mean by disappointing me like this. Or I could just stay here, ’cause it’s raining and I don’t want to get wet.

At a Bonfire Night celebration last November I caught a packet of cornflower seeds, thrown from a gardening float in the procession. I’ve sprinkled a few of those seeds into the can to see if they’ll do anything. The packet says they should be sown in April and May, but rules are for fools. Unless I’ve made up the rules, then rules are to be followed to the letter. Immediately.

Posted in: garden, pansy watch 2009

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5 Responses to “Disappointment in a can”

Tori
29th January 2009 @ 10:18 pm

The can is clearly crap Sarah!

A pure gimick…

Truth be told, I have a similar gardening gimick in my cupboard. I daren’t bring it out since it too might be crap!

I bought (on a tv infommercial no less), a roll of flowerbed! Yes…it doesn’t make sense. Apparently you put in out where you want it and water it and it turns into a fan-effing-tastic flower border in half a second, a border that even a real gardener would be proud of…

And that’s why mine is in the cupboard!

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LaurenC
30th January 2009 @ 2:24 am

You know…I tend to do that too. Get an idea in my head that I must do something now. Even though the destructions say that I should wait until a certain time of day or month of the year.

I like to break the rules. I’m cool like that. :)

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31st January 2009 @ 8:19 pm

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suna
8th February 2009 @ 5:11 pm

Snow over early gardening or early gardening over tons of snow???????????
I love that you have both snow and garden in a single post.

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