We swung by the Roots & Fruits on Byers Rd., we picked up a bag of compost. Though it took us awhile to figure it out, compost is potting soil in these auld isles, and we were glad to find even a small bag outside of a home and garden store — potting stuff isn’t something you can just pick up at your local Raley’s out in front.
We only looked at it closely after we purchased it, though, and when we saw the name, we did a double take. With Added John Innes?! What? Surely that doesn’t mean…
No, no, no. No weirdly composting Englishman has been added to our plants. (Not that we know, anyway.) John Innes, however, was a real person — a nineteenth century philanthropist who did charitable works and donated his lands, at his death, to create a public park and an horticultural institute. Thus, the John Innes name goes on — no longer in the form of a man, but in the form of the loam-based composts (with added peat, sand, and fertilizer) which bear his name.
We still think they could have explained that on the bag…
That is so weird…yeah for an outsider you’d think much differently on this John Innes addition.
thanks for the good laugh!