Know your onion!

[ladyattercop]

Important things first. I won't have Strange Fiction up this week. I didn't want to have to do this, I swear. I had great intentions of not missing anymore updates after I sucked at life all last month the one previous, but I have not been able to get into anything close to akin to a "groove" with the comic now that Ducky and I are in our own

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[spyderfyngers]

We used to cut the tops off plastic cordial bottles and fill them almost to the top with water. Sit your onion on the top - but don't let him touch the water - then watch as his roots creepily emerge and stretch down to reach the water.

We had a row of them in our old house, all with individual faces. The king was The Onion of Wrath.

[ladyattercop]

Oooo, I like that. It's so much creepier and more sinister looking than popping it in a pot with some dirt.

Now my onion needs a face, and a title like "The Dark Prince of Pain."

[spyderfyngers]

They do look very cool. Eventually you'll have an onion/octopus hybrid growing on your kitchen windowsill.

[tanthe]

My "regular houseplants" type watering routine basically follows this pattern: keep the soil moist, but not wet. So depending on the dryness of the room, central heating or whatever, your plants may need more frequent watering. I don't throw in a load of water either, being that that often can lead to the "oh shit, too wet" scenario, unless your plants are in a plant pot with a hole in the bottom and on a dish where they can drain the excess into.

But being that I'm not the most diligent plant waterer, and even more so that if we go away for days/weeks, we have no plant sitters, I just have a cactus as my houseplant.

[ladyattercop]

Oh thank you!

That helps immensely. The onion has been moved to the top of a shot glass filled with water, which is sips from with it's creepy onion roots, so it's doing well. I did, however, have another Random Plant, which I transferred to a pot in a fit of "houseplants should be in pots" rhetoric. Your "keep the soil moist" advise seems to be doing well for the little guy.

Maybe I won't kill these two. Maybe. d-: