On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:27:58 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:


Persephone wrote in message ...
On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 03:14:31 GMT, Charles
wrote:

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:51:14 -0600, "brsher"
wrote:

I have a small garden. Every year I plant beefsteak and cherry tomatoes.
I've also planted red peppers once or twice. But this year I'm looking
for
something different to plant. I live in Missouri. Can anyone suggest
something that is easy to grow and that I can consume almost everyday?
Thank you for your
suggestions.



hemp

Actually, he makes a good point -- sorta.

People don't realize that hemp was used for so many things in ancient
times -- clothing, sails, ropes, all kinds of products.

Now, to get hemp clothing, we have to import from Canada! Ridiculous.

Today, hemp could help alleviate the looming the oil crisis -- to the
chagrin of the oilionnaires who are running this country. That's why
it will take a long time, and a desperate world situation, before
growing hemp will be "legalized" by our whores in Congress.

Hemp oil could replace petroleum in automobiles and other uses.

It grows on miserable soil; it needs no more care than a weed; it's a
natural, renewable, non-polluting crop.

Too good to be true? Not at all -- it's out there waiting...

Persephone



Yeah, but what's a home gardener supposed to do with it, other than the
obvious, which would require sharing it with the police?

I guess I got off the "home gardener" theme somewhat.

I really intended to suggest that very large-scale commercial
cultivation of industrial hemp could make excellent automobile fuel
--oil from seeds,-- as well as the use of hemp for its millennial
purposes like cloth,ropes, paper, etc. Instead of cutting down
ancient forests to make chopsticks, paper could be made of a cheap,
renewal resource.

Requires a change of national priorities; requires, inter alia,
ceasing to kiss up to the oilionnaires who run our country. In
short, requires pulling our national head out of our rear and working
toward the future instead of short-term profits and political payoffs.

But then, we wouldn't want to disrupt the long love-affair of the
Bush-Prescott family with their Saudi boyfriends.

Persephone