.... I have absolutely no problem rooting it by two-leaf pair cuttings in direct in dirt.
Is that hygienic?
??? @Helen P3, can you please expand on your comment? I don't see how/why sticking a plant cutting in dirt is 'unhygienic'. Gardeners around the world have been propagating plants that way for ages. What am I not understanding here?
Peggy I think the poster assumes you put your cuttings in the stuff you get out of your vacuum cleaner, that’s what the U.K. call dirt. Some of us are posh and call it compost.😀
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
The UK/american thing has always perplexed me. We Irish/scots/welsh/english went to America and colonised the natives, therefore becoming/creating americans as we know today, yet we created a bunch of people who don't understand their origins, don't understand our accents or the different english words that we all use but most british people understand them as a result of the constant bombardement of american media in the form of "movies" or films but they don't get the same of us in return.
Brits know that a diaper is a nappy. We know that a pacifier is a dummy. We know that a faucet is a tap. So why the BEEP don't you americans know that in reverse?! That is a limited example of my exasperation: there are many more examples of such ridiculousness.
We Irish/scots/welsh/english went to America and colonised the natives
Oh we did, did we!? You’d think I’d remember something like that!
You’ve just answered your own question - We know because of US media - movies/tv shows etc.
It’s not the same the other way around.
Language changes/evolves over time and obviously varies by geographical separation. Getting exasperated with someone in the US for not knowing a British term is as silly as getting exasperated with someone in this country not fully understanding Chaucer.
also remember that we live in a relatively small country and yet have a huge amount of variation with different accents and dialects.
Good example, I have a coworker from Northumberland area and she has several expressions that I don’t understand! There’s been a few times when I’ve not fullY understood what she was saying and she’s had to explain. But it was funny and nice to learn a new expression.
It’s just variation in language and we can’t know it all!
Do you think the modern inhabitants of Saxony and Denmark curse us for altering their words and not bothering to know theirs?
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Some of us are posh and call it compost.😀
I suspect, Helen was lightly teasing; as evidenced by her emoji?
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/
dirt
noun [ no plural ]
UK
/dɜːt/
B1
a substance that makes something not clean:
You’ve got some dirt on your trousers.
(Definition of dirt from the Cambridge Essential Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
soil
noun
UK
/sɔɪl/ US
/sɔɪl/
the material on the surface of the ground in which plants grow:
light/heavy/fertile soil
sandy or chalky soils
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a country:
It was the first time we had set foot on foreign/French/American soil (= gone to a foreign country/France/America).You’ve just answered your own question - We know because of US media - movies/tv shows etc.
It’s not the same the other way around.
also remember that we live in a relatively small country and yet have a huge amount of variation with different accents and dialects.
Over the years, I have known a considerable number of Americans, as I lived there briefly and worked with some of them in England.
I never met one who didn't understand that to the British the word for soil is SOIL.....
I, therefore, looked at other posts of this American poster, whom I don't recall ever encountering before, and this is what I found:
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I cut off an out-of-control, 2' long leaf from my Sanseveria plant, cut into 6 pieces and poked into a pot of soil. Need to replace the 6 I lost ….
I have a dream that my.. children.. one day.. will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character
Martin Luther KingWhich was to say that getting 'exasperated' and saying things like 'Why the BEEP don't you Americans...' - over a linguistical distance is OTT.
I have a dream that my.. children.. one day.. will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character
Martin Luther King