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Plants and water

posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 12:00am on 29/04/2012
C is working on killing his second orchid, but this one has rebelliously put out the tiniest sprig of green. Orchid watering is theoretically complicated and so I'm not sure how best to encourage it - with or without watering. Actually, wait. It's not even my plant to water; if neglect is why it's now a smidgin green again, then it should be left alone.

Some of PopCap's gardening advice today: "Use only organic fertilizers like vinegar and gasoline." Also, "Give plantz plenty of water: for best resultz cover garden with swimming pool."

Drought continues in the UK, where it's been pouring rain all week.
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posted by [identity profile] matrygg.livejournal.com at 12:02am on 29/04/2012
[livejournal.com profile] silversunshadow raises orchids -- if you tell me what kind it is I could ask her what you need to do.
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posted by [identity profile] innostrantsa.livejournal.com at 06:53am on 29/04/2012
That "advice" is incomprehensible. Is it really, truly, meant for actual gardeners? I just... that can't possibly be serious advice!
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 09:28am on 29/04/2012
PopCap are the makers of the game Plants vs. Zombies. All those stray zzs in the second piece of advice may give you a hint as to what characters the advice comes from.
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posted by [identity profile] innostrantsa.livejournal.com at 07:04am on 30/04/2012
...I completely missed that. *groan*
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posted by [identity profile] heleninwales.livejournal.com at 08:30am on 29/04/2012
I believe that the SE is currently experiencing the wettest drought on record. Unfortunately, one month with normal rainfall won't make up for 2 years of scarcity.
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posted by [identity profile] tsutanai.livejournal.com at 12:41pm on 29/04/2012
I have indeed observed the predicted localized flooding.
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posted by [personal profile] gillo at 03:47pm on 29/04/2012
It's the wrong kind of rain.

Seriously - much of it is simply running off the hard ground and into the rivers, or evaporating almost as soon as it's landed, or transpiring through all the green growth and going back into the atmosphere.

It's still a bloody nuisance, I agree, but the aquifers still need a lot more rain before they fill up after two dry winters in a row. At least there's unlikely to be quite so much demand on artesian water for irrigation this month!

It is a tradition of very long standing that if a drought is announced it starts to rain steadily for weeks on end.
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