Word: growed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those who prefer not to improvise, garden stores are doing a land-office business in beneficial nematodes, antislug mulch and dozens of bio-organic plant boosters. The ranks of converts grow by the day. Actor Eddie Albert makes speeches and lobbies farmers about the pesticides. "I am rather militant about the poisoning of our food and our children," he says. "Gardening is the only way we can get clean vegetables." His advice to would-be gardeners? "Keep it simple. Then get the hell out of the way. Nature wants your garden to grow...
...perennials like annual bedding plants, taking them up every year and cutting them in half and resetting them," recounts Connecticut Nurseryman Fred McGourty in horror. "That is the highest-maintenance form of gardening there can be, but they can't wait for the four years for the plants to grow together...
...repackaged for more genteel consumption. The musical past is being reprocessed, in all sorts of unlikely places, from shopping malls to concert stages. A second generation is starting to catch the beat of the music their parents grew up with, the music that, very often, helped their parents grow up. If all that is a little disorienting, or even baffling, remember the words of the classic R.-and-B. tune: "The little girls understand...
Like Martin Luther (or somebody) -- richly aware that the world might end tomorrow -- I keep planting apple seeds and watching to see how they grow. Some never germinate at all, some pop up about an inch and then slowly shrivel. But there stands outside my window one apple tree that was once a seed and is now more than twice as tall as I am. All it took me to grow it was about 15 years of my life...
...most wants to say: "I made that." I know this is not really true. God made it. Or it made itself. But I helped. I planted the seed in the ground. I watered it. I watched over it and admired its blind, thrusting determination to be and to grow. And that is all most of us can do for most of the things or the people we care about...