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Re: No tomatoes 1998

> I, for one, thought it was real at first.  Perhaps because of the lengths
> our state government went to when eliminating Mediterranean fruit fly
> infestations. Like, for example, mass helicopter sprayings of med-fly bait
> over entire towns in the middle of the night. And going door-to-door to
> strip all the fruit off backyard fruit trees.

True...and gypsy moth sprayings here, giving us butterfly-free gardens for
a year or so...
 
> For me, the give-away was the inclusion of morning glory family plants in a
> Nightshade family list and the sheer impossibility of the government being
> able to to eliminate all members of the family (including wild and weed
> species) nationwide for 10 years.

:)  Yeah, I was trying to think of more ornamentals and was stuck so I
chucked a few Convolvulaceae in as well.  So sue me. :)  On the other
hand, if they developed a disease that mysteriously did in all the
Convolvulus sepium in the U.S., I wouldn't mourn too badly...

bob
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