Reflections: If the plants won’t grow, give them a throw and try again

I need new plants.I need new plants because the ones I grow, in slapdash and peremptory fashion, don’t grow. Or they don’t grow right. Spurts of stalks and sputtering shoots peek valiantly but ineffectually every spring. Some soar like flames, rising expectantly from under the blanket of humus and mulch that encased them all winter. [...]