Matthew's Journal

A friend gave me a basil plant a few months back, and despite my best efforts, it is dead. Is there any point keeping it in the hopes it'll revive in the spring, or should I sling it and re-use the pot?

Separately, I planted some alpine strawberry seeds in the summer, and have kept them outside in a seed tray until recently, when I brought them inside. I've been watering them less (when outside, they got quite wet, what with the weather we've been having), but there's now white fuzzy mould growing on the soil. What should I do about it? I don't want to harm the seedlings (there are only a few!), but I think the mould is probably bad...