Grow Your Own (comic story)

 was a Doctor Who Adventures comic strip published in 2011.

Summary
Arriving on the planet Hespic and offering Amy Pond and Rory Williams a chance to try the amazing cuisine, the Doctor opens the door to find the place overrun by rapid plant growth that seems to have occurred since yesterday afternoon. The rapid growth seems to be attributed to a creature roaming loose. It looks a cross between a chicken and a sheep. The creature – now having wandered into the TARDIS -- seems to be exuding some kind of super-fertiliser from its constant flatulence, probably attributable to its diet. The TARDIs is full of fully grown plants from different planets, rapidly grown from seeds collected on the bottom of the travellers' shoes and brought onboard. In an attempt to capture the roaming creature, the Doctor becomes tangled in some vines, leaving Rory and Amy to trap it. Rory suggests the TARDIS lights are helping to accelerate the plant growth and dons a pair of night goggles. The TARDIS lights are dimmed and the creature is trapped in a box. The Doctor is cut down from the vines and decides to move the plants to the ship's botanical section (saving him a trip to the garden centre). He sets about finding a planet that needs help with agriculture where the creature can be dropped off.

Individual named characters

 * The Doctor
 * Amy Pond
 * Rory Williams

Original print details

 * Publication with page count and closing captions
 * 1) DWA 224 (4 pages) NEXT WEEK – THE DOCTOR DEALS WITH SOME DEADLY WEAPONS!
 * No reprints to date.

Continuity

 * The idea of seeds being unknowingly brought aboard the TARDIS was also a theme used in DW: Amy's Choice.
 * The Doctor refers to Amy and Rory as ‘Ponds’.

Timeline
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