Gardening by Osmosis

Again, I found myself at the grocery store with a bad attitude.

Are you kidding me? I fumed at the produce manager—$3.00 for a green pepper?

I stomped out of the vegetable section, bought some packets of seeds and left the store in a huff.

I stopped at the hardware store and purchased some “Soil for Seed Starting.” Visions of colorful jars of canned veggies danced in my head all the way home.

I had saved stacks of plastic cups and poked three holes in the bottom of each one. To insure there were no contaminants in my recycled treasures, I washed them in a 10% bleach solution then rinsed them b...