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Re: Martha Stewart's Column on Soil

In a message dated 4/14/02 3:59:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
jeffball@starband.net writes:

<< www.detnews.com >>
I don't think the instructions were so very bad.  She started with requiring 
a soil test for chemical values, bulk density and textural analysis.  Here in 
Mass. that will cost you $42 plus postage and I use it often, I use the basic 
chemicals and organic matter and soluble salts even more.  The directions 
given would give a productive bed the first season and that is very necessary 
if one is to become addicted to growing stuff.  Sure, long term management of 
permanent plantings is a bit more complex than it would seem from those 
remarks, but it seemed a decent introduction.

A very long time (not far far away) I saw Martha on the  TODAY SHOW claiming 
she had done the work of constructing the partially finished dry-laid brick 
walk she was standing near.  Her directions were I now know not going to 
produce a durable product, and even then I thought she was lying about having 
touched the shovel or a brick.  Some people who live in Connecticut might 
remember the court case several years ago when Martha was in court over 
whether an employee at her CT was an agricultural employed as seasonal help 
or otherwise.  I never learned how the case came out. 

I suspect that Martha puts in long days, although she has a chauffeur which 
allows her to do some work en route.  She is very likely a workaholic and 
perhaps intolerant of other people who are not.  Workaholism is seemingly a 
national trait from the productivity figures per capita and personal 
observation.  We might acknowledge her for providing employment for 
columnists, photographers, editors, makeup artists etc.  Martha could be 
considered socially desirable if one looks at it that way.

I guess the biggest gripe I have about Martha is that she doesn't help people 
to go more deeply into the knowledge about soils, or food prep. or roofing 
materials etc.
However, few people who write for public consumption do that.  It would be 
nice if more garden columnists listed websites from USDA, land-grant colleges 
and the sites which offer articles from peer reviewed journals.

Barbara

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