"feed me, seymour"

spent a couple of glorious days this holiday weekend in the garden and the allotment, planting, hoeing, digging and planning. I'm still new to this growing lark, and some aspects of it seem odd (washing flower pots, for one), but knowing that sun, soil, seed and rain are combining to do all the hard work makes the weeding seem less of an effort, especially when using crops and mulch to suppress a large part of the unwanted species.

My limited experience is revealed by my determination in an impossible task: eradicate dandelions. There's something about the way those developing flower heads hide in full view (as well as deep down), so that you can remove every single one, turn away and back again to find there are plenty more in plain sight that I take as a personal affront. Also, the buds look like a bit like the shoots on Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors.

(I hadn't realised, until looking round the web, unsuccessfully, for images of Audrey II's buds, that the 1986 film originally had a completely different, and much darker, ending that was closer to the original stage play but removed after audiences at test screenings reacted badly. You can read all about the big budget out-take on wikipedia.)

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