Once out of the water, the duckweed quickly dies, but it keeps weeds down and adds bulky organic matter – magic for soil structure – and, of course, those nutrients.
Beside these two films, The Wonders (Soda, 15) is a veritable avalanche of light, though Alice Rohrwacher's mystic Italian fable of rural community and coming of age has a melancholic shiver of its own – there's a silent cynicism to its observation of commodified rustic charm, but it's not averse to the possibility of magic in the soil.
They taste incredible, they're perfect in color and all you have to do to grow vine after vine of your prized delicacies is sprinkle a bit of magic into the soil, add water, and voila… perfection is realized.
Image caption Santhu Swindon said his namesake town had "magic in the soil" The star of a new Indian film partially filmed in Swindon has adopted the town for his stage name.
He added: "Everyone makes fun of Swindon but a lot of Indians have flourished in the town and think it's got magic in the soil". Filming for the two-and-a-half hour film began in the Wiltshire town, with Santhu - previously known as Santhu Gopinath - cast in the lead role in his debut performance.
Do you not ever think, alone to yourself in quiet moments, staring up at the wonder of the universe, of the stars burning bright and distant above us, at the magic in the soil beneath us, of life and death and motion and fire, and do you not ever think to yourself: man.
Even if you don't believe there is magic in the soil, or that being born an Englishman is to win the "lottery of life", there is no harm in recognising the shared traits and ephemera of the place – revelling in the windscreen wiper rhythm of lay-by sandwiches, cheap-sounding house music, badly-fitted leisurewear and drinking in parks for weeks on end during the summer months.
Magic item handlers (magic) Manipulates magic items.
There is no magic to making potting soil.
You don't know what concordance of factors and variables yields that calibrated can't-miss feeling, and you don't want to soil the magic by trying to figure it out, but you don't want to change your grip, your stick, your side of the court, your angle of incidence to the sun.
