Census of the propagation shelf, because someone asked and because I have been avoiding counting.
Four pothos cuttings, all rooted, all fine, all of them frankly showing off
Two monstera nodes, one with a root like a finger and one that has done nothing for six weeks and is not dead, just refusing…
Sunday morning, nineteen plants, one watering can that holds enough for about six of them.
I could buy a bigger can. I have thought about it. But the walk back to the tap is the part where I actually look at them. The small refill trips are when I notice the yellowing leaf or the thing that has outgrown its pot, because I am passing at eye level with nothing…
Moved everything onto the shelf by the window in February and I am only now, in the last week, seeing what that did.
Plants respond on a timescale that makes it almost impossible to learn from them. You change one thing and the answer arrives eight weeks later, by which time you have changed four other things and have no idea which one worked.…
