Straight answers to ordinary questions
Bristol, UK
Drinking water is close to the simplest thing a person can do, and it now has an entire aisle. Powders, effervescent tablets, bottles with hourly markings printed up the side, half-gallon jugs with handles, and a tier of products claiming to hydrate you at…
Every garden center is arranged to make you buy the plant in flower on the bench in front of you. The label says full sun, moist well-drained soil, and you nod, because everyone's soil is moist and well-drained until they try to dig it…
Continue readingThe instinct when something is chewing a plant is to find a bottle that lists that plant on the back. It is worth resisting for about ten minutes, partly because the diagnosis is often wrong and partly because broad-spectrum insecticides have a habit of…
Continue readingThe most common watering routine is a few minutes with a hose every evening, and it is close to the worst one available. Not because it uses too much water. Because of where it puts it. Five minutes of sprinkling wets the top inch…
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