I have a flower in my garden that looks abnormal (pictured). I emailed Alan Titchmarsh to get his expert advice. He just sort of shrugged his shoulders (you can tell lot from an email) and said:
“Dunno. Have you tried watering it and stuff?”.
I emailed him back minutes after watering it ‘and stuff’ and told him that nothing had happened, and it still looked a bit brown. He got back to me a few days later and this was his response:
“I’ve spoken to a few of my mates – including Monty Don, but not Charlie Dimmock, because we broke friends – and we all reckon it’s probably dead”.
I wouldn’t have got this vague rubbish from Percy Thrower.
I just put some coffee grinds in my basil plant soil. The plant had no buds and was small. Within a few days, plus water and sun of course, it has tons of buds and flowers and sprouted up like crazy! Coffee grinds will kick your plant into high gear. Caffeine works on plants too.