Horticultural blunders

Recycling poison containers

y dearly departed Mother could never get rid of an empty herbicide bottle. They are just so well designed, with a sturdy trigger system to easily dispense the ready-mixed broad-spectrum herbicide onto unfortunate weeds in a gravel garden without fear of the poison drifting onto wanted plants in a bordering flower bed. According to her, she found these bottles handy for many other domestic uses too. Once, after washing one, she filled it with a household cleaning agent and placed it in her broom cupboard. A while later, weeds became a problem again, so she purchased a new bottle of ready-mix herbicide. As the devil would