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much on their own: They don't mess
everything he grows is wonderful.) I
green thumb. A garden of
with
me; I don't disturb them.
tended
the
vine
and
it
produced
a
deliab hts - A horticulturists'
don't want to dig too.deeply into
I
cantaloupe.
hothouse. What have all
this seedy area, but I always keep in
Well, I mused, how did this hap-
these in common? The abil-
mind that old saying, "One man's
pen?
I
didn't
plant
it
(which
ity to grow beautiful plants
weed is another man's passion." ❑
is probably the reason it
that enhance a landscape.
grew
so
well).
It
seems
the
They are all also foreign to
site was where my garbage
me.
bags awaited pickup; ani-
I really enjoy puttering in
mals had torn some open,
the garden; but it seems that
seeds had fallen our and
despite all my good inten-
by Martha Jo Fleischmann
planted themselves. Of
tions, my best results are
course, I did not tell anyone
always with weeds!
"Those measles
that I had not deliberately
Several years ago, a friend
got lost in your spots,"
planted the vine; there's only
gave me cuttings from her
The vet told a leopard
so much humiliation one
SY MANELLO
garden so I could spruce up
named Shotz.
can take.
Editorial
Assistant
my yard. I tended to the
"Although you're infected,
My one, pretty garden
plants; I made daily visits to
They went, undetected."
parch has iris (fairly hardy),
pluck out encroaching weeds; I mixed
To which she replied,
peonies (they thrive on my abuse),
plant food and administered it loving-
"Can't you plotzr*
poppies (they seed themselves), sweet-
ly. The "plants" grew tall and healthy.
peas
(I
couldn't
kill
those
vines
if
I
Near the end of the summer, the
*Idiomatic —
wanted to) and wild violets. I like to
friend came to visit and, after a few
Can you believe this?!"
brag
that
I
let
it
go
to
have
a
"natural
moments of chuckling, congratulated
*Literal — burst
wildflower look."
me on the best looking weed collec-
Truthfully, those plants are pretty
tion she'd seen.
Enough of this, I thought. My
next foray was to order from a cata-
logue and to mark the spots with
plant markers so no such embarrass-
ments could happen again. I weeded;
I fed; I tended and the plants pro-
"God's creation of the world was the ultimate act of giving."
duced beautiful yellow flowers. I was
—Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair, of Ohr Somayach International in
so proud!
. Jerusalem, speaking at a luncheon in Bloomfield Township.
Pride before a fall again — yep,
another set of weeds. I have com-
"Each and every young person here is a winner today. They are our
plained so often that the mail order
future."
companies now recognize my name
— Ellen Labes, Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit
from complaints and reorders and,
annual planning committee chairwoman, honoring local Jewish youth
rather than accept any new orders,
groups for outstanding social action/community service projects.
send polite letters recommending that
I expend my energies elsewhere.
"Would the Arabs, given the opportunity, drive Israel into the sea?
Once I was pleasantly surprised to
Geronimo or Crazy Horse undoubtedly would have welcomed the
discover a ground vine growing near
opportunity to burn Washington."
my front curb. I recognized it from a
— Robert Stone, author of "Damascus Gate," comparing the
similar one I had seen in my son-in-
Palestinian situation to that of Native Americans.
law's garden. (He, by the way, is a
protege of the Jolly Green Giant;

Now or in
the future.

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