Re: CAT: Wish lists
- Subject: Re: CAT: Wish lists
- From: S* R*
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:18:29 -0600
From: S&C Rust <srust@fidnet.com>
Speaking of all those great new catalogs and long wish lists, I have a
suggestion for those of you wishing to shorten your wish lists. Go
outside and weed and feed all those you already have. Notice how many
will need to be divided this year. This does not shorten your list by
much, but anything is helpful! I have just put alfalfa pellets around
50 clumps this morning. That would be a good feeling, but there are
still 450 more clumps to go! Of course, fortunately, some of these
clumps belong to my kids and they will have to tend to them. If I only
had one garden to weed, I might enjoy it, but that is not the case.
And, I still cannot bring myself to use chemicals for weed control. 11
years ago when I first began gardening, the feed store recommended Sevin
to kill some insects I had on several plants. I dusted it on like it
was flour and returned the next morning. The "bad" bugs were still
there, but underneath the plants were eight dead earthworms. I felt so
bad and so guilty, I've never used it since. I do use a product on
arils and arilbreds to control aphids. It is granular and systemic and
hasn't killed any earthworms that I know of. I just keep thinking of
gardeners I know of that died mysteriously of cancer. They all used
chemicals daily and heavily. So, I have a lot of hand weeding to do!
And that helps me shorten my wish list a little more every year. Now,
if I could only part with some of those I already have! For a few days
last year, more bloomed than I could actually get around to really
observe. It is undoubtedly just greed on my part!
Cindy Rust, Zone 5b, Missouri
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