You know how it's common these days to buy plants from the internet as "plug plants"? And if you've ever fallen for it, you'll know that they are tiny, weeny liddle things, which need to be potted on and nurtured for weeks before they are anywhere near big enough to plant out. And even then, half of them will die.
(Can you hear the bitter sting of experience in that description?)
Some companies, reacting to the complaints of their customers, now offer larger plug, which have slightly more chance of survival when the purchaser - as purchasers will always do - plants them out straight away in their garden.
They call them Super Plugs, or Giant Plugs, or something similar.
Well, how's about this for the Ultimate Plug:
What a whopper, eh?
One of my clients has some wooden bridges, made of very chunky 6" timbers, with holes drilled through them for drainage - you can see a couple of the holes above the Gigantic Plug.
Needless to say, the drainage holes get blocked up, and plants (ie weeds) grow in them, and every so often I go round with my good old daisy grubber (favourite tool) and weed the gaps, and pull out the plugs.
I don't often get such a complete one!
That really is six inches (oh all right, I can hear you, 15cms) of solid root, impressive, huh?
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