[azubah]

by hiding in the compost heap till..

[mumofstig]

The frost has cleared and it was safe to come outside. Or so we thought..

[New shoot]

.. but as the now fairly motley looking band of forum members crawled out of the compost heap, picking cabbage leaves and spud peelings off each other and with boots and wellies squelching in the melted frost ...

[azubah]

and needing a drink..

[JayG]

...luckily, in another corner of the-dungeon-with-a-compost-heap-in-it they found a dusty bottle labelled 'GrowsterInc Limited Edition Homebrew'.

They drank eagerly from it, and initially put the unusual taste down to possibly less than ideal storage conditions, until one of them spotted the list of ingredients on the faded label: 'Ear of bat, entrails of frog, sweetbreads of cat...' - the list went on in that vein, and to their horror they realised they had been consuming what was clearly a magic potion.

Nervously, they waited to see what the effects might be...

[Growster...]

...while wondering what any lady chum might look like, draped in off-the-shoulder Enviromesh, and considering the cost of asking the manufacturers if they did - er - a different colour like...

[New shoot]

... the potion gurgled in respective bellies and the group backed away from each other, wary of someone morphing into a slug headed monster or ghoulish giant rat.

While they stared balefully at each other, no-one noticed the environmesh clad figure had caught up with them and was about to pour a container of triple aged comfrey tea at their feet, the potency of which was almost beyond comprehension.  When the lid came off, the fumes that were released ...