cockbeard wrote:

To be honest those plants look fine to me, just a little physically broken. Most leaves are green and shiny. Probably just need a prune, take off the worst broken and yellowest leaves. Be a bit brutal as well, the plant won't mind not having to feed the extra leaves. Am not an expert, but mother was

Cheers chum.  I'll give it a serious pruning today.  I've left the sprinklers doing a daily 12 minutes, but set them to come on before dawn so the water's better absorbed and doesn't evaporate.

Bonsai has been a hobby of mine for a number of years, and I find that the reason most potted plants die is either due to over-watering or under-watering.  The soil is probably the best place to look to tell you which problem you have, If they are over-watered the soil is too moist then you will feel moisture on your skin from just digging into it with you fingers, and the roots of the plant will be darker than usual and show signs of water-logging or early rotting.  Dry soil will be hard to dig into with your hand, it will likely repel water if it has been dry for a long time and you will find chunks of soil clogging onto the roots of your plant.  I don't imagine telling the difference would be much different with garden plants, so you might want to check your soil

Can we get some pictures of your trees please some guy. I've always fancied a go at bonsai but not sure I have the patience.

I would love a bonsai tree on my desk. Some kid would probably feed it Tizer though.

More for admk (maybe also gonzo, or any other legal badger) if he's about... Do the police ever put unsolved case files into the public domain? And if so, where can I find / request the info from?

till you just brought it up!

Why six pages back are people calling Tomato Sauce, Red Sauce? What the fuck is that all about?

It's to make the clear distinction between brown and red, condiment apartheid if you will.

well it's red innit

FranticPea wrote:

Frosty wrote:

Why six pages back are people calling Tomato Sauce, Red Sauce? What the fuck is that all about?

White wine, red wine. White bread, brown bread. Red sauce, brown sauce.

Sauce?

This is insane, right?  It's tomato ketchup, or tomato sauce.  Not red sauce.  Chili sauce is red.  Pepper sauce is red.  So many things are red.

Who's dead?

Elmlea wrote:

This is insane, right?  It's tomato ketchup, or tomato sauce.  Not red sauce.  Chili sauce is red.  Pepper sauce is red.  So many things are red.

It could be economy of syllables or possibly sauce ranking. At your basic sauce level you have tomato ketchup, hereby given a generic red term. Anything else that is red is denoted by its defining ingredient, chilli, pepper, etc. Brown sauce I would say exists as spicy, fruity sauce is not very snappy. Again, it's your hard working grunt, whereas steak sauce, gravy, etc need that extra definition. What about white sauce? I hear you cry. Whole different ball game, the roux is king here, try describing mayo as white sauce to a Frenchman at your peril.

Pedantry is go, I love it.

Fuck it all. Let's use brand names like corporate whores. HP or Heinz? Who wants some?