I wonder if Dick made it to the end of the war after all that pesticide exposure.
A little off tangent, but this film was very Northern-centric with its planting recommendations. Although not a
native Southerner, I have come to realize that
gardening down here is very different from up north. Right now is prime time to be planting a winter garden, but the big home and garden centers have their seed displays broken down or shoved off into a corner until next spring rolls around. Seems they think (like in the film) that there is one way to garden, planting in the spring and harvesting in the fall, and if you are fortunate, you can squeeze in an early and a late crop. Contrary to what the film implies, collards are
not a summer vegetable. You are supposed to plant them now and have greens to cut-and-come-again all winter.
But we will get the last say in all of this. With climate change moving zones further and further north, more people are going to have to adopt the Southern ways of
gardening and leave the recommendations in this film to the history
books.
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