Night Watch1973

Ellen Wheeler:
Mr. Appleby, what on Earth have you been doing over there all the time.

Appleby:
I've been preparing a bed for some new friends of mine. There's no substitute for preparation. You can't just stick things in the ground and expect them to grow. This soil is poisoned. That damned obscenity of a house takes so much of our sunshine away you're lucky to get anything to grow.