Papaya sabotage

Papaya sabotage
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Last Friday one of my co-workers was in my office. He looked at my papaya plant and asked, "Where's the fruit?"

"What do you mean," I said. "Isn't it still there?"

Nope. It turns out it had fallen off. I was crushed. I don't think it's any secret that I had high hopes for that little papaya.

I blame the papaya's death on the nefarious gnome that has been lurking in the planter as of late. Many people think that garden gnomes are innocent creatures, but I'm not so sure.

This little gnome has been making the rounds in our office as of late. More often than not, I'm the one who deposits him in my co-worker's tea cup or hides him in her heart-leafed philodendron. She recently planted him in my papaya pot, and I thought nothing of it. Now I wish I moved him along before he had a chance to sabotage my papaya.

Of course, the fact that the papaya fell off could be related to the fact that I repotted the plant, but I'm going to stick with my story of blaming the gnome.



The good news is that the papaya is getting ready to open one, if not two, new flowers. Fingers crossed that they'll bear fruit before the gnome comes for another visit!