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

THE FUNNIEST THINGS PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT GARDENING 27
acting dibber, the extra strength dibber, the lowfat
dibber, and the unscented dibber. Currently in
development: the cheese crust dibber.
But just as she was about to commandeer the
dibber market, some enterprising Stanford
students, working in their dorm rooms, developed
an app that connected dibber users worldwide
through their dibbers. Successive upgrades
enabled gardeners to test their soil . . . test their
pregnancy status . . . even test whether it’s raining
and signal gardeners to go inside.
With each new development, giddy gardeners gathered in groups
outside garden centers for days ahead of the release.
Even non-gardeners lined up to acquire them.
But then came the game-changer. The definitive
dibber disrupter.
A ninth-grade girl in Del Rio, Texas, for her science
project, developed a fully digital, fully self-dibbering dibber.
Every comfort and safety feature had been seamlessly
integrated, even enabling gardeners to start their dibbers
remotely, so they were warmed up by the time they got to
their gardens. Hers was a concept no one had ever
conceptualized.