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No Big Box tomatos this year
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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. -- 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 |
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