The New Order

[gsyh]

Contaminated Spinach killing and maiming people up the dozens in United States?

...and Canada too?

Lettuce is also not safe anymore.

...and now:
Ground Beef Recall

Comments

[theoldmac]

damn those contaminated Spanish! Does the contamination spread to Mexico too?

I have no clue

[gsyh]

I like to think that Mexicans are more prone to having their own vegetable gardens though...

*groan*

[theoldmac]

if I have to explain the joke, it's not funny anymore.

I was referring to your typo.

Re: *groan*

[gsyh]

Oh, darn it!

I skim read?

[qaddafi]

It can be really hard to grow stuff in the suburbs. My parents' house is in the suburbs. It faces north, so nothing grows out front since there's no sunlight there. And nothing grows out back because we have no trees (too much sunlight). The one time we got strawberries, a raccoon ate them before we could.

True

[gsyh]

It is really hard. Even further up north where I am, and with a memory of a more tropical place, I really get frustrated...but plants are awesome, with the exception of very few places in the world, you'll just have to find what suits your zone.

A lot of 'garden magazine flowers' just won't do in colder and harsher climates, so 'go native'! Find out what grew everywhere long ago where you are, what suits the soil (unless it has been changed), the climate... Have shade plants in the front (common butterfly violets with dainty flowers and edible leaves), and plants suited to bright lights in the back then.

The Yukon plains, way, way, up north in Canada, is too cold for trees, but still have meadows, and the neat thing is, they actually have no poisonous plants up there too!

Where I am right now, I could grow lots...my father is just rather attached to 'the lawn', so lately I've taken to rearranging my room, leaving space by the window to grow stuff.