SEEDS & WEEDS: The Funniest Things People Have Said About GARDENING

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• Even when you see a slug emerging from your salad and motoring
across your dinner plate?
• Are you attracted to the possibility that for as little as 500 hours of
your time you can reduce your food costs by as much as $100?
• Will you be OK paying the equivalent of $64 for a tomato?
• And that tomato being maybe not quite as perfect as you can buy in
the store?
• But warmed by the sun in your own garden?
• Do you enjoy repetitive activities?
Like pulling the same weeds out of
the same spots every
day?
• Are you generally
comfortable with compost?
• Do you comprehend that soil is
more than just dirt? That soil is,
like, everything?
• Is your soil friable? Or even
pliable? Will you pledge to make it
viable, reliable, undeniable? Will you promise to befriend it, tend it,
and amend it? Will you commit to venerating and regenerating it?