rodtheworm
Seedling
Hi everyone,
I recently spotted this outside Asda at the low price of £3.84. I decided I had to take the gamble (and have since been made to pay for it by She Who Must Be Obeyed - aka. the loving, patient and long-suffering woman who has put up with far too many potted trees - by getting rid of some of the others). I mean, it's just a bit of sunburn, right? Hopefully this doesn't come back to haunt me.
First step was to get it out of the stuff they called soil (some weird almost clay-like stuff) and get it into something a little better. Not non-organic best practice - I know my limits, and between two young children and a degree on the side, I'm liable to forget the odd day of watering, so I'll trade some vigour for survival - but a soil that will at least take up and drain water a little better.
I also gave it a good trim down so that I could start to see what I had to work with.
I need to get into the middle and open it out a bit to let the air flow through a little smoother, but was running out of time before needing to help put the children to bed.
As a pleasant surprise, I'd thought I was getting several smaller plants potted together that I could separate, and instead found this 2" trunk buried under the surface:
Apologies for the poor picture.
I think there's a viable tree design in that, something like the big oaks you sometimes see.
(Photo copyright Scott Clause)
I'll try to update on here with progress, but any tips will always be gratefully received.
I recently spotted this outside Asda at the low price of £3.84. I decided I had to take the gamble (and have since been made to pay for it by She Who Must Be Obeyed - aka. the loving, patient and long-suffering woman who has put up with far too many potted trees - by getting rid of some of the others). I mean, it's just a bit of sunburn, right? Hopefully this doesn't come back to haunt me.
First step was to get it out of the stuff they called soil (some weird almost clay-like stuff) and get it into something a little better. Not non-organic best practice - I know my limits, and between two young children and a degree on the side, I'm liable to forget the odd day of watering, so I'll trade some vigour for survival - but a soil that will at least take up and drain water a little better.
I also gave it a good trim down so that I could start to see what I had to work with.
I need to get into the middle and open it out a bit to let the air flow through a little smoother, but was running out of time before needing to help put the children to bed.
As a pleasant surprise, I'd thought I was getting several smaller plants potted together that I could separate, and instead found this 2" trunk buried under the surface:
Apologies for the poor picture.
I think there's a viable tree design in that, something like the big oaks you sometimes see.
(Photo copyright Scott Clause)
I'll try to update on here with progress, but any tips will always be gratefully received.
