Saturday, June 13, 2009

Palo Alto officials look for long-term solutions following student suicides

Er...

what could be a longer term solution than suicide?

But in the short term?

All the suicides are Gunn students.

Let them go to Paly and learn why life is worth living. ;-)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

All that is well and good, but what about the PLANTS? We want to hear more about the PLANTS!

-YAF

Charles Montgomery said...

YAF..

Hold the spores of your Equisetaceae....

Plant updates will be coming.

Particularly if I, as seems possible, become the first human being to take care of plants so poorly that I kill an ivy plant.

Really.

How is that possible?

Anonymous said...

Too much water

Charles Montgomery said...

I suspect that is the problem.. or, I suspected.. so I re-potted it in a larger pot with better drainage.

How long would the symptoms of drowning last?

Anonymous said...

Depends. If you managed to suffocate all the root-hairs or if fungus took hold, well, that would make it compost time for Mr. Ivy.

Also, you don't want to over-pot because if the roots don't fill the pot, you end up with the same problem: too much damp soil around too few roots, which causes rot.