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Bill who putters wrote:

In article ,
Gary Woods wrote:

General Schvantzkoph wrote:

After last year's late blight fiasco I've sworn off buying plants from
the Big Box stores, I'm doing everything from seed.

A word of warning: The blight came in from Big Box plants last summer, but
the spores can spread 30 miles a day, so starting your own didn't help
much. Usually, late blight spreads from the south where it can survive,
but last year it got help from the aforementioned stores infected stock. I
was it on plants offered at Home Despot, which I didn't buy.
(most of the above from an NPR interview with Mike McGrath on Saturday. He
called tomatoes a "Gateway Drug" to gardening. )


Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at
home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G

I guess in a way we only do things if it is rewarding. Good tomato
salt pepper mayo carb and one could get hooked. Then besides the mouth
temptations there is the visual and o yes the sensual smell and the
pleasure of a grape exploding and and and. Seems gardening can be a
bacchanalian exploration of life. There is even auditory beauty in the
morning evening garden. Perhaps I fail to elicit the proper greek gods
that all reveled in the garden. Eden for a reason lost but not somehow
forgotten. Five senses in the garden sort of reminds me of Pan.

Not for everyone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priapus

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Bill Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA
"I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful
and rich an expression of life as growth" Henry Miller