# "With the boys in college, we needed something else to nurture--" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 30, 2013, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-the-boys-in-college-we-needed-something-else-to-nurture/654390 "2013-03-30T22:54:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-the-boys-in-college-we-needed-something-else-to-nurture/654390/1 "2013-03-30T22:54:29Z")
So they bought some tomato and herb pods. Did they move them into the boys’ rooms? ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-the-boys-in-college-we-needed-something-else-to-nurture/654390/2 "2013-03-30T23:37:42Z")
Yes. And when word got out, [company came over](http://news.yahoo.com/kansas-couple-indoor-gardening-prompted-pot-raid-182449463.html). ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-the-boys-in-college-we-needed-something-else-to-nurture/654390/3 "2013-03-31T14:33:51Z")
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: ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-the-boys-in-college-we-needed-something-else-to-nurture/654390/4 "2013-03-31T15:12:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-the-boys-in-college-we-needed-something-else-to-nurture/654390/5 "2013-03-31T16:04:50Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > What are “tomato and herb pods”??? Here ya go: ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-the-boys-in-college-we-needed-something-else-to-nurture/654390/6 "2013-03-31T16:51:13Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-the-boys-in-college-we-needed-something-else-to-nurture/654390/7 "2013-03-31T18:52:00Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > 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? 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. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-the-boys-in-college-we-needed-something-else-to-nurture/654390/8 "2013-03-31T18:56:15Z")
So you were referring to a commercial. That was not at all clear to me. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-the-boys-in-college-we-needed-something-else-to-nurture/654390/9 "2013-03-31T19:07:21Z")
[Here’s the full ad.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC2SpXPhGzk) StG ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-the-boys-in-college-we-needed-something-else-to-nurture/654390/10 "2013-03-31T20:01:01Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > [Here’s the full ad.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC2SpXPhGzk) > > StG 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. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-the-boys-in-college-we-needed-something-else-to-nurture/654390/11 "2013-03-31T20:02:06Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > So you were referring to a commercial. That was not at all clear to me. I grant you that my OP was cryptic. It’s the whimsey in me. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-the-boys-in-college-we-needed-something-else-to-nurture/654390/12 "2013-03-31T22:23:41Z")
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,](http://www.carolina.com/catalog/detail.jsp?prodId=665753&s_cid=ppc_gl_products&gclid=CPfVoNP8p7YCFYbc4AodWV8A1A)100 for $9.95. [Seed starter mix](http://parkseed.com/seed-starting-mix/p/06981/), 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. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-the-boys-in-college-we-needed-something-else-to-nurture/654390/13 "2013-04-01T01:29:07Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > Dear lord, 30 bucks for what amounts to 18 seeds in peat pots? > > . It’s not so much when you’re buying them to replace your grown children. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-the-boys-in-college-we-needed-something-else-to-nurture/654390/14 "2013-04-01T01:54:02Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-the-boys-in-college-we-needed-something-else-to-nurture/654390/15 "2013-04-01T13:05:39Z")
They look too much like K-Cups. I’d probably stick one in my Keurig and brew a steaming cup of dirt soup. mmm