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By DR. DIANE RELF Extension Environmental Horticulturist
This time of the year, it is fun for gardeners and their friends to look through the gift catalogs with an eye toward holiday presents. In addition to providing excellent gifts for the garden-minded, these catalogs can be sources of some dismay or amusement, depending on your perspective. Also, they may provide some great ideas for do-ityourself projects. Don’t believe the ads
that are “too good to be true”
To avoid disappointment, watch out for words that imply something is too good to be believed...and don’t believe them. For example, "huge, efficient, easy-to-use” are words used to camouflage items that are quite the opposite. An ad for a “huge, efficient, hardwood composter” describes a produce that is 32 inches square by 30 inches high, holding almost 18 cubic feet of leaves and is, therefore, too small to be of any real value. It is not even big enough for composting action to heat-up the pile and kill off
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