Wild Strawberries

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Wild Strawberries is a 1957 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman about an old man recalling his past. The original Swedish title is Smultronstället, which literally means "The wild strawberry patch" but idiomatically signifies an underrated gem of a place, often with personal or sentimental value. 

The Dark Side

The Dark Side of Grocery Gardening | Garden Rant
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The news media tell us that Americans are returning to the
land in their own back yards. On weekends, we trot off to the local garden
centers to indulge our newly-found enthusiasm for grocery gardening. Recession
be damned! We’re planting vegetables!

But there’s a dark side to all this happy tomato talk and we
need to get it out in the open.

Some of my fellow gardeners have committed—or are about to
commit—vegetable garden planting, maintenance and design treason.

I’m talking about ugly, unsightly vegetable gardens. 

Moestuin: Rhetoric

Thinking, Teaching, Writing: The vegetable garden: Notes for a rhetoric



The vegetable garden:
Notes for a rhetoric

An assertion (tentative, as always): Every garden is, at its essence, either decorative or utilitarian. It is recommended that gardeners keep straight their priorities.

With the decorative in mind, the flower gardener pays attention to color, shape, texture, fragrance, height in his choice of plant material (with color and height predominant criteria for the novice, other qualities assuming significance only as his aesthetic develops). The vegetable gardener, on the other hand, chooses her crops by first considering issues of productivity (how many bushels will that zucchini plant produce?) and days to maturity (sweet corn by August 1!). It boils down to this: how much? how soon? But after a failed crop or two, she may add worries about hardiness, insect and disease resistance, ability to withstand drought. She'll realize, gradually, that bigger isn't always better (except maybe for that prize pumpkin she hopes to enter in this year's fair), that TASTE is important, too (though, really, all her produce is much superior to the grocery store's styrofoam versions). If she's the sentimental sort, she may insist on those yellow pear tomatoes her grandmother always grew, or give that Moon and Stars watermelon a try, just for the poetry of its name.