Re: CONFESSIONS

I use no pesticides, etc.  As a consequence, I have a flourishing garden
only from March to about the middle of June, which is when nature with a
great crashing fanfare finds its summer balance:  grasshoppers,
hordes, plagues  of them (not the occasional mavericks that dainty
gardening books say I can control by picking off the plants of a fine,
summer morn).  I suppose there might be something admirable about a summer
graveyard of plant skeletons, though for the life of me I've yet to attain
such appreciation.  But I'm tryin'.  The Extension Agent laughed and said
that since I didn't want to use chemicals, I could hope for a big wind to
blow them onto someone else's property. But Nature, who produces the wind
and the grasshoppers, had a big sly grin for that:  there isn't a wind
known that can dislodge a grasshopper.
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