The title for this article was inspired by my friend, Alice Massey, a former contributor to this column who recently moved near Jacksonville, Florida. Many of us were the recipients of the pots she couldn’t take with her. She is a passionate and inspired gardener, but her new temporary home is a rental. A real challenge for a passionate gardener. But she’s up to it. She loves pots.

No, not that “F word.” Not the one that I heard so often while working on the thoroughbred racetrack in my 20’s from people who punctuated their sentences with the expression as a matter of course. In order to sound tough, I guess. But as a visualizer, I jumped nearly every time I heard it because the “movie” of that “activity” replayed in my brain. I could live the rest of my days without that word entering my ears and be perfectly, delightfully happy.

Be amazed by the biodiversity in soil! The soil food web includes bacteria, fungi, nematodes, worms, and all sorts of other creepy characters. I dig dirt. I have a tee shirt that one of my friends gave me to prove it. Plus, there is so much going on in living soil that you wouldn’t believe.