"With the boys in college, we needed something else to nurture--"

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So they bought some tomato and herb pods.

Did they move them into the boys’ rooms?

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Yes. And when word got out, company came over.

3

What are “tomato and herb pods”???

About the abortive raid, this illustrates a good reason for paying cash if you buy anything at indoor grower supply places.

I raise ornamentals and vegetable seedlings under ordinary fluorescent lights, but so far no one has raided the place. :dubious:

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Did anyone else read nuture as turture? And does this say anything about my parenting skills?

Though I must say I’d had a hell of time teasting the heck out of our uppity ficas tree these last few years.

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Here ya go:

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Wait, I’m confused. The OP doesn’t have any links but talks about a couple with boys in college. Meanwhile the second post from someone else is about a couple with a school-age boy and girl who are growing vegetables in the basement. So was the OP about the same couple, or someone else?

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I couldn’t find a link to the whole commercial. The original commercial opens with the woman speaking the words that comprise the title of this thread. In the YouTube link I posted, the commercial picks up right after she speaks that line, which had been edited out and not by me. Maybe someone realized how stupid it sounded.

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So you were referring to a commercial. That was not at all clear to me.

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Here’s the full ad.

StG

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Thanks. The line in question occurs at about :30.

I repeat, their sons are in college, and they needed something (presumably equivalent) to nurture, and settled on seed pods.

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I grant you that my OP was cryptic. It’s the whimsey in me.

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Dear lord, 30 bucks for what amounts to 18 seeds in peat pots?

Seed packets at the dollar store, 25 cents per pack. Bought about 3 bucks worth. Total number of seeds, unknown but potentially hundreds.

Peat pots,100 for $9.95.

Seed starter mix, 8 quarts, $4.95.

And for good measure, Miracle Gro plant food, 1.5 lbs, $5.78 at my local Home Despot.

I wasn’t even looking for the best possible prices, and I still came out at $25 for a hundred potted seedlings, versus…18.

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It’s not so much when you’re buying them to replace your grown children.

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Raising seed pods to replace your kids…sheesh.

Don’t they know they have it backwards? You grow a garden while the kids are still in the house, because, hey, free slave labor.

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They look too much like K-Cups. I’d probably stick one in my Keurig and brew a steaming cup of dirt soup.
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