Garden volunteers ever vigilant.(Home & Garden)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July, 2007

Byline: Catherine Edman cedman@@dailyherald.com Some people fight with their tomatoes. No, really. It's often a battle just to keep them alive. This is not the case for 400 students who planted their garden this spring at Woodland Elementary West School in Gages Lake. They can't seem to kill the little buggers fast enough.

Generally, you don't think of gardeners wanting to commit planticide, but when you consider the fact that seeds from last year's plants are strewn about this year's garden, the scene takes on an entirely new dimension. They're everywhere. At first, the parent and student volunteers caring for the garden this summer felt some measure of shame over pulling the "volunteers" who happened to show up in unexpected places. Now,...