Down To Earth Garden Club

This has been a summer for wild and wonderful weeds. Last month it was the tall blue lettuce. (Aline reports that the lettuce plant was measured at 16’.) This month we got a call from a homeowner above Maine Street who had an unusual vine that was overrunning a bed in his front yard. His initial thought was that it was a volunteer squash of some sort, but as the flowers and seeds formed he realized that what he had was clearly not a squash. After searching the internet for something similar with no results, he remembered a card that Aline had given him and called for help. As I was on my way to the bank the day he called, I stopped by to see his visitor.

With food prices rising more and more people are starting vegetable gardens. Our local Agway ran out of certain types of seed very early in the season and I noticed that there were few leftover packets of seeds this year at the larger retail outlets. So how many of these people are going to be disappointed when they will quite possibly find that raising vegetables is not as cost effective as it initially seems?