Re: [gardeners] Re: You have rocks??
Michael & Bambi Cantrell (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Sun, 6 Dec 1998 15:08:17 -0500
>I grew up on perfect soil. All the Northeast Mississippi topsoil was
>washed to the MS coast. My ancestors were smart enough to buy
>a wee plot of land about the same time that foreign topsoil started
>to settle in and call itself at home. You could dig at least 5 feet
>down in our yard without hitting anything other than perfect friable,
>fertile soil. Little did I know I was standing on one of the Wonders
>of the World. Probably why I started gardening -- growing perfect
>flowers, fruits and veggies was effortless.
>
>Well, except for the weeds. And the insects. And the stifling,
>humid heat. Did I mention the weeds? Or the incredible array of
>bugs? Did I mention that when the humidity and heat combined to
>literally steam the plants off their roots, the weeds and bugs
>fluorished so that you had to go out in that awful weather to pull
>weeds and murder insects?
>
>Are we all closet masochists?
>
>Liz
Liz! Shhhh!!! We wouldn't want it to get out about our masochistic
tendancies!
I know what you mean about the heat and humidity! I think about y'all down
on the coastal South when it is miserable here.
The bugs and diseases love the summer heat and humidity
but it gets to be a little much for us humans! :-)
Bambi
Coastal Carolina