Re: Shadegarden Question?
- Subject: Re: [SG] Shadegarden Question?
- From: Marge Talt m*@HORT.NET
- Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 02:39:43 -0500
Well, Paul, I can certainly see where you developed your antipathy
towards this poor genus....detasseling sounds like a really lousy
job.
But, see, plants don't understand English, so when you talk to that
plant - no matter what you actually say - it thinks you're trying to
be friendly, so puts out new growth:-)
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: Paul Henjum <Meum71@AOL.COM>
> >
>
> I agree, you are correct that they can take a lot of neglect and
keep on
> "living" But I will let you in on a deep, dark personal
secret...one should
> call it more properly a loathing.
>
> My first "job" was in 8th grade as a corn detasseler, a most
hideous job, to
> make a teen have to get up in the morning during summer vacation to
do.
>
> One day it would 90 and the air would be sticky with humidity-the
next day it
> would rain and one would freeze (I can remember some of those cold
> mornings-all wet shivering on the bus)...Have I said any thing
about the bugs
> yet? Or the cut up legs and arms because of the leaves?
>
> But the worst thing of all was the smell of the corn plants- I
shudder
> thinking about now.
>
> So when my brother move back to Minnesota from Detroit, he gave my
parents
> that corn plant and it looked like corn and reminded me of corn and
I have
> hated it since.
>
> It lives to spite me, I tell yea - when I tall bad about it-it
sends out new
> leaves.
>
>
>
> Paul
