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03-02-2004, 03:22 PM
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National Home Gardening Club
"Jim Lewis" wrote in news:bvn06t$lh5$1
@news.utelfla.com: In the mail today comes an epistle from the National Home Gardening Club. It contained a small packet of red poppy seeds and a second packet containing about one tsp. of "all purpose" timed-release plant food (14-14-14). If I join, they, promise I'll get more loot and get to "test" garden goodies -- starting with what looks to be a knock-off of a Feclo pruner -- on a monthly basis (and I can even KEEP the goodies!). All this for (apparently) $1.00 a month. Dunno what the kicker is, but I'm gonna pass. But I will enjoy the poppies ;-) and use the fertilizer in a pot somewhere. No micronutrients in the fertilizer, though, so it's probably not too good as a pot fertilizer on a regular basis. Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization -- Ralph Waldo Emerson I signed up for one year around 1999. I wasn't too bad of a deal. I didn't renew because they jacked up the membership fee to $15 IIRC. The introductory book they send you (unsolicited??) "Gardening Essentials" is not bad for ~$13 for people who don't know manure from manola and it was easy enough to cancel further shipments of books (which cost considerably more ~$25). They also sent me a product to test (even though you were supposed to sign up first). It was a ooh ah wow! packet of coleus seeds with absolutely no planting instructions and a germination rate of 5% (or I could just be really bad at planting coleus, which is entirely possible). The pruners weren't too bad either (although mine was a freebee and not for test), but I busted it cutting up too thick wood after a hurricane. I didn't get any plant food, though I might have gotten something else instead. I did get the poppy seeds, baby's breath and maybe cornflowers or something else but I didn't bother to grow any of it. Magazine only comes like 10x per year, though (some months are combined). BUT THEN GUIDO CAME OVER TO MY HOME AND DEMANDED THAT I SIGN UP FOR ANOTHER YEAR. j/k (about Guido) |
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