Pickles by Brian Crane for March 07, 2024

Earl wonders why she limits the number of beans he’s allowed to eat.

Is that true? I always thought pruning was done purely on an aesthetic basis.

Flora farts!

Remember Ferdinand Feghoot visiting the planet with mobile intelligent plants? There arose a horrible plant which would kill by puncturing others with its thorns and sucking out all the fluid. Feghoot captured this vamplant and buried at a crossroads with a steak through its heart.

Keep the scissors away when Earl, has gas

Nelson, if you think that’s mean, wait until you find out about Venus flytraps.

Same for people.

Wait until he learns about bananas.

Nelson and Roscoe, good buddies!

When I emit a gas, people cry, and come CLOSE to death. I’m still working out the bugs

How wonderful , Roscoe in todays cartoon again : )

Spite

Don’t even get me started on how mean bananas are!

So pruning is preventative maintenance?

Roscoe sure seems to be interested in the whole flower thing?

I was expecting another GRAMPA insult.

True. The old saying “one rotten apple will spoil the whole barrel”.

This does not apply to cut flowers since they are not part of the ‘mother’ plant. They each have individual stems. Dead heading or pruning is only for flowers blooming off of the mother plant. For cut flowers it is for aesthetic reasons only.

Wait until he watches Little Shop of Horrors.

Same goes with old men. Earl emits gases that could eventually kill the people around him.

A study revealed that leaving fruit in deep fruit bowls causes ethylene gas emitted to over ripen the fruit quickly. Recommend using a plate or shallow bowl.

None of the flowers I have do that, but I do have to dust them occasionally. Or not.

Yes, they are.

That’s how I clear a room by emitting some gas

It’s the time of year that bunches of unopened daffodils are for sale in the supermarket. They get sun while on the kitchen counter next to the sink – it has a wide window that gets sun this time of the year. My 2 bunches – $5 and a bargain – are at their peak right now, and please me every time I pass through our kitchen :-)

So I’m wilting?

Household cut flowers are trimmed primarily for aesthetic purposes. If you have so little airflow in a room with cut flowers that ethylene would accumulate, you are living in unhealthy, stale air. Only in plant nurseries and florists will enough gas accumulate to force nearby flowers into the fruiting phase.

“If I gotta die, you gotta die.”

Is that why grandpa asks me to pull his finger?

Kind of reminds me of Earl, emitting a toxic gas that kills others

Part of my checkered past involved working in a greenhouse, "Debudding"Chrysanthemums. It was to leave leaving just enough buds to produce extra large flowers to grow on each plant.(Among the worse jobs I ever had).

Ok. Everyone beat me to everything here. So a big phlatt of fart to all of you!