I find five litre pots are a good size for most herbs (bay, rosemary and lovage may need something bigger) – big enough to support decent-sized plants, but small enough to fit in a small space.
The only child of a World War II veteran so patriotic he refused to buy any product not made in the USA, my mother's roots, though of German decent, were deeply planted in American soil.
Mr Ratcliffe, who has described his strategy as "completely opportunistic", bought reasonably equipped plants with decent technology being off-loaded by blue-chip companies, and then tried to push up their productivity to pay off the debt incurred to acquire them.
Native to tropical regions, rather than the desert, these succulent-like plants prefer decent moisture, rather than total aridity, and regular potting soil or compost enriched soil.
So, if you're planting a decent size crop of say 200 hectares, you're looking at a pretty easy $700,000.
At around £40 for a single plant of a decent size, it would make a nice catch for someone with an eye for plants, particularly if it's planted in a trendy aluminium trough.
Fortunately, the Heublein people, who took over our plant, were very decent.
A black man could get a job in a unionised auto plant, earn a decent salary, buy a house, and maybe send his children to college.
A black man could get a job in a unionized auto plant, earn a decent salary, buy a house, and maybe send his children to college.
