"Franz Heymann" wrote in message ...
"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
[...]
The water in the open ground moves about, dragging oxygen in, and
also, I think, helping to stop malignant organisms building up to a
dangerous concentration.

That sounds like waffle. Let's call a plant in the open ground grossly
overpotted. What then?

That sounds polite and friendly. You don't have to believe me; you did
ask me, though.

My apologies.

Accepted, of course.

It is a regrettable fault of mine that I call a spade a
spade.

But it wasn't, even figuratively speaking, a spade!

Other than that I am quite a friendly sort of bloke.

I don't doubt it.

[...]
Mike.