What's the difference between a futon and a crouton?

One's a little sofa bed,on and a crouton?

One's a little sofa bed, the others a little floater bread.

Sorry, I'll make myself laugh. That's not very professional.

I've got croutons on my mind today, not because this is a food podcast, but because for some reason,

whenever I think of the plant croton, into my mind pops an image of a crouton. So I apologize for that. But today we're talking about crotons. Plus, we'll be hearing from listener Carol,

and I'll be answering a question about setting buds.

What on earth is that about?

We'll find out shortly.

It's been a busy old time on the Patreon front with Sarah,

becoming a crazy plant person, Alice, Meg, Collette

and ML all becoming legends and Julia, Stephanie, Natasha, Esther and Armando all becoming

superfans. And thanks to Laura for her donation on co-dashvai.com.

If you want to make a one-off donation to the show, that's a great way to do it.

And every pound or dollar you send really does help keep the show going.

Great news about the Legends of the Leaf crowd funder, which is powering on.

I'm at 43%. It's very exciting. Every time I look

at the page, somebody else has pledged their support, which is amazing. I did get a question from

Stephanie saying that she wanted to pledge for the book at Christmas time and would she still be

able to? The answer quite simply is yes. I'm expecting the crowd funder to take

at least three months, which would mean that I might reach my target by Christmas time,

but even once I've reached that target, you can still pledge for quite a long time afterwards to

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