I am so glad so many kids are learning about gardening. My concern is also garbage. I have noticed that still too many bottles, cans, clothing, books, plastic bags, etc. just are thrown out. We have at work special containers for recycling, yet people throw them away in trash cans. Still buy bottled water for every day drinking and throwing away the bottles, instead of recycling them. Shoes, clothing, toys. They say it is so much easier to throw things away. They are perfectly good stuff. Some other people can use or wear them. I still remember when I was a child in Kindergarten, that we had to take apart little scraps of cotton fabric, so they could be recycled. Cotton was scarce. No flour, we had to stand in line for rice and bread distribution, in exchange with the tickets that we had received. Some women were wearing rubber sarongs. Bicycles had solid rubber tires. So now I pick up cans, bottles from the street that people threw away and recycle them.--I was finally 'forced' to use Lontrel when I was desperate of my wall-to-wall backyard filled with mugwort; I was extremely careful, covered from head to toe in protective gear from HD, with goggles and breathing equipment. Made sure I just hit the plant, and not the soil---That was quite a job. I am glad it worked. I do not think I want to do it again. Now still fighting with bindweeds and bermuda grass, AND native trumpet vines----I am trying to cut them off near the soil----AND my neighbors black walnut tree, rose of sharon, butterfly bush, crepe myrtle, and maple sharing their descendants. Pulled hundreds of little seedlings as soon as I see them.
I am always so glad to see other people also giving away stuff to the Goodwill when I do too.---
