Disappointment in a can

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 [...]

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Inside and outside

The first pansy seedling showed itself yesterday, 9 days after I first poured water onto the madness that is my pansy in a tin. It was a cold day, much as it is today, and having photographed the seedling on the window sill I was huddled up against the radiator reading my news magazine. The [...]

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Pansy Watch 2009

One present I received this Christmas was a “Pansy in a tin”. It wasn’t labelled, but I think it was from Russ. The other half of his present being two huge jars of used tea bags and all kinds of other organic crap from his kitchen. Having now emptied one of the jars into my [...]

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