I always seem to buy plants that have

[Floyd R. Turbo]

lost their will to live!

[gtar100]

1. When I bought some cactus plants l read that charcoal is good to put in the soil.

Lucky for me, I had a whole bag of it near the barbecue grill.

[Brother Buzz]

3. I used to do poorly with cacti

Then I subscribed to the Arizona Daily Star; when it rains in Arizona, I water my cacti

[underpants]

5. It's important to pay attention to them

[underpants]

7. Have you thought about a different planter?

[pangaia]

2. HA HA HA me too !!!

Almost everything I buy just DIES !!!!!!

What's wrong with me, anyway?

[underpants]

4. The Simpsons

[Floyd R. Turbo]

6. Ha!

[empedocles]

8. Our last gardening effort here produced all of 3 tomatoes - costing

a bit over $7 a piece.

[orleans]

9. but it was worth it, right?

on the bright side: they usually taste better than store bought.

[empedocles]

11. The 3 surviving tomatoes were excellent. Especially eaten fresh off the vine.

However . . . the related costs were more than $7. I know very little of these things, [wife project], other than I got to rototill an area, then unload and carry a heavy bag of new dirt around the house to the site. Repeat procedure for a 2nd heavy bag of nutrients for the dirt, rototill that to mix it in, along with little white pebble like things. $ costs unknown.

5 tomatoes did grow on the several plants. Squirrels sampled 2 tomatoes - guess they were also appreciative.

This year, said gardening site is lying 'fallow'. However . . . there seems to be especially aggressive wars going on between various species of weeds, clover, some grass, that are growing really fast and strong.

However, it could have been worse. There is one of those seemingly annual heavy bags, [don't want to know what it contains], near said site.

However, said new bag has been undisturbed so far.

[Grasswire2]

10. the epic tomato EXPERT is right here on DU.

Check out his book Epic Tomatoes.

[empedocles]

12. No thank you. Will conceal recommended book from wife also.