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Since she mentioned "those weird seed mixes and rolls of seeds for 'instant gardens'," I had to pass along this link to a howler of a product, thanks to tipster Christopher in Hawaii.
Now if anybody can tell me how to put a hyperlink in a comment, I'll be mighty grateful.
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That video is almost beyond belief. I am deeply curious about what kind of response they get to a product like that: How many people are actually taken in by such a thing? And how many of those demand their money back? I especially like the "cut it into shapes and put it anywhere." And you won't have to "waste time" putting those plants in the ground. Oy.
— Susan from South of the River
Posted by: Susan | May 06, 2007 at 10:55 AM
Someone should volunteer to try it and let us know how it turns out. Not me, someone else!
Posted by: Carol | May 06, 2007 at 01:53 PM
I actually did shake out one of those "shade mix" can-o-seeds in one spot. There remains one rather nice plant that comes up every year and spreads. A hardy geranium (I think) with deeply cut foliage and distinctive white flowers.
Posted by: eliz | May 06, 2007 at 02:08 PM
"Biodegradable, environmentally friendly, retains water and supresses weeds."
Hey, I do all of those things, but not for $19.95....I'm priceless:)
Posted by: Ellen | May 06, 2007 at 02:13 PM
Actually, I blogged about the same product, and I've got a commenter who's giving regular updates in the comments of my post -- he's giving the Roll n Grow a try! Since I don't think I can do live URLs in the comments, I've put the link in the URL linked to my name. It's pretty hilarious -- he's not having a heck of a lot of luck, but something's coming up, at least...
Posted by: Genie | May 06, 2007 at 03:18 PM
Susan, I tried to add a link in a comment using HTML and received an error message "This blog does not allow HTML comments," so I don't think it is possible.
Posted by: Marte | May 07, 2007 at 05:46 AM
The way I have always done links in the comments here is to copy and paste.
http://tropicalembellishments.blogspot.com/2007/05/ghostly-image.html
The html is not accepted and you can't make key words in the text a link, but you get a link. I then have to prove I am not a robot spammer by filling in a text passcode.
Posted by: Christopher C in Hawaii | May 07, 2007 at 11:02 AM
Thanks, Christopher! I'll show my gratitude by stopping by your new place in NC to help you start your garden. And I"m not completely kidding.
Posted by: susan harris | May 07, 2007 at 11:24 AM
Ha! Video comes up right on their front page. I couldn't watch the whole thing. More like Roll (with laughter) & Groan. The best part is where the narrator of the video says "no more spending hundreds -even thousands- in a nursery, and then you still have to WASTE TIME putting them in the ground!"
This is the difference between gardening and "yardening," right?
Posted by: cate | May 08, 2007 at 03:33 PM
TypePad can be configured to accept HTML code in comments, which would also let you do bold and italics with tags.
I've had comments set up with HTML-formatted tags but when I previewed I lost all the coding, so I just muttered a lot and abandoned ship.
Posted by: firefly | May 08, 2007 at 05:09 PM