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WHY DID MY PLANT DIE?

You walked too close. You trod on it.

You dropped a piece of sod on it.

You hoed it down. You weeded it.

You planted it the wrong way up.

You grew it in a yogurt cup

you forgot to make a hole

The soggy compost took itÂs toll.

September storm. November drought.

It heaved in March, the roots popped out.

You watered it with herbicide.

You scattered bone meal far and wide.

Attracting local omnivores,

Who ate the plant and stayed for more.

You left it baking in the sun

While you departed at a run

To find a spade, perhaps a trowel

Meanwhile the plant threw in the towel.

You planted it with crown too high;

The soil washed off, that explains why.

Too high pH. It hated lime.

Alas, it needs a gentler clime

You hoed it down. You weeded it.

You planted it the wrong side up.

You walked too close. You trod on it.

You dropped a piece of sod on it.

You left the root ball wrapped in plastic.

You broke the roots, theyÂre not elastic.

You splashed the plant with mower oil.

You should do something to your soil.

Your plant was eaten by a slug.

The growing point contained a bug.

In early spring your gardenÂs mud.

You walked around! ThatÂs not much good.

With heat and light you hurried it.

You worried it. You buried it.

You overfed it ten-ten-ten.

Forgot to water it again.

You hit it sharply with the hose.

You used a can without a rose.

Perhaps you sprinkled from above.

You should have talked to it with love.

You walked too close. You trod on it.

You dropped a piece of sod on it.

By G. B. Charlesworth