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she says, “And he dutifully conies down and pours water over them and washes them out and there’s nothing you can say but, “Oh, thank you, darling!’ ”
Flossie agrees. “You just can’t go to Richmond during the growing season.” (That’s where her family is.)
James’Solar System
James Wood planted 1,000 seeds in his solarheated living room on February 11. Then he, Diane and baby Britton left fir an extended stay in Houston.
Diane’s mother, Margarite Tuthill, came over to spray every day while they were away.
Now the ftiture flowers have grown to the point where they are nearly recognizable—one can tell the pansy from the phlox, the dianthus from the celoeia. There are even a few jalaperao peppers and tomatoes. Those are for the family. Of the 1,000 seedlings, James says he will have maybe two flats of flowers for the church—at a conservative guess.
James will transplant them into his garden, but when they bloom, he wants nothing more to do with them. He tried to dry a few flowers last year, he remembers. He buried them in a bucket of sand, but then it rained and spoiled them.
This year he will pluck the flowers and take them to church in bouquets. There he will thrust them at the first dryer or arranger he sees and say, “Here! Take care of this!”
“I’m not gonna dry this year,” he says.” It’s too hard around here to find a dry place. Someone else can do that.”
But participating in the fall flower sale (which is really a year around activity) involves “enough different things you can choose what’s fUn about it.”
For James it’s fun growling plants. In fact, he designed his home to allow for this living room garden. He has rods in the ceiling to hold florescent lights later that will raise and lower. This is all over a solid wall of window toeing south, ‘teach, night he goes outside © cover the wall with slabs of styrofoam to keep in the heat.
The general effect is like living in a greenhouse. “You have to watch the humidity, that’s for sure!” he says. When the sun heats up their home, the Woods have to run the dehumidifier all the time. “People think ‘Wouldn’t it be swell to have a big greenhouse’ but you get moisture problems and mold grows where it shouldn’t be,” he says of life in the underground. (The
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