The rules

1. Everything here is short. A poem, a story, a song, a film, a picture. Each takes under five minutes.
2. A work is composted 7 days after it was last watered. Watered on a Monday, it lives until the next Monday night. Composted means gone for good. It never comes back.
3. You get 3 drops of water a day. Each drop waters one work. They refill every night. They can't be saved up, bought, or given away.
4. You can only water what you finished today. Read it, hear it, look at it. Then decide.
5. It only takes one. A single keeper watering once a week keeps a work alive forever. Survival is not popularity.
6. Anyone can plant. One work at a time, made by you or shared with permission. A gardener reads it first, then it goes into the first free bed.
7. The garden has 48 beds. When they are full, new works wait in the seed bank until a bed is free. A watered work is never pushed out to make room. Right now 0 works are waiting.
8. Everything happens once a night. At 00:00 UTC your time, works get a day older, unwatered ones are lost, new ones are planted and your water refills. There are no countdowns to watch.

What we promise

• Every number you see is real. No invented scarcity, no fake visitors, no fake keepers.
• Letting go is a real choice, as large as watering. We will never say you let something die.
• At most one email a day, only if you ask for it, and only when something you keep is wilting or was lost.
• No feed, no algorithm, no ranking. What dies first is shown first, because it needs someone soonest.
• No accounts. Your plot lives in your browser, and an email can carry it to another one.
• To keep scripts from faking care, your first watering is checked once by Cloudflare Turnstile. Most people never see it. Reporting lines opens up once you have watered on 3 different days.