This made me laugh! I only recently took up gardening, and I do find some of the technical terms unfamiliar and not easy to find out what they mean. That’s one of the reasons I do love this forum. I can ask for simple advice, after trying to wade through ambiguous and confusing instructions and failing. Im sufficiently unclear as to what ‘under cover’ means ( greenhouse? a cloche thingy? the kitchen windowsill? ) that I tend to avoid any plants requiring it, just to be safe.
I'm surprised at @Songbird-1 getting her sew and sow confused given her antipathy to the misuse of so.
@Ergates I take "undercover" to mean not in open ground or pots and is usually for seeds needing a more constant temperature and humidity levels to germinate. Under a seed tray cover, cloche, greenhouse or even on a sunny windowsill would give some protection.
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"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Oh, I entirely agree with the themanfromvolantis. I find "all you need to know" articles infuriating, inaccurate, patronising and down right lying. GW and the BBC should know better. If I see articles in a newspaper with that strap line (Guardian, I'm looking at you) I studiously avoid it. Any web page with that title does not get any click from me.
Worse, however, is "The TRUTH about...". Newspapers and the BBC do this all the time and I f'ing hate it. If there is a quick way to destroy any kind of credibility, it is to start shouting about THE TRUTH - there is only one way, one perspective, one right thing. It's just narcissistic polemic condemning itself; painful clickbait.
However, TMFV, this forum and the rest of the GW website is quite separate and those editors never look in here, so posting editorial feedback for them on this forum is rather wasted. Email them to complain about their appalling writing, by all means. While you are there can you please ask them to overhaul this forum as it's in dire need of attention and they have been ignoring us for years.
So I sewed some seeds to a sow so they'd be so much simpler to sow. Soon I saw my sow was stuck in a sack which I suddenly had to unsew. In unsowing the sack all my sewn seeds were strewn and I saw I was sure to seek more.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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https://www.rpseeds.co.uk/products/cercis-siliquastrum-judas-tree-seeds#:~:text=Sowing Instructions: Sow at any,the fridge for 10 weeks.
There’s
sow … relating to seeds
or
sow … an adult female pig
and
sew … relating to a needle and thread or sewing machine
and even
so … one of those words scattered liberally throughout English conversation that performs many functions https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/so#:~:text=from%20English%20Grammar%20Today%20So%20%2B%20adjective%20%28so,degree%20adverb%20that%20modifies%20adjectives%20and%20other%20adverbs%3A
… and so on … 🤣
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That’s one of the reasons I do love this forum. I can ask for simple advice, after trying to wade through ambiguous and confusing instructions and failing.
Im sufficiently unclear as to what ‘under cover’ means ( greenhouse? a cloche thingy? the kitchen windowsill? ) that I tend to avoid any plants requiring it, just to be safe.
@Ergates I take "undercover" to mean not in open ground or pots and is usually for seeds needing a more constant temperature and humidity levels to germinate. Under a seed tray cover, cloche, greenhouse or even on a sunny windowsill would give some protection.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.