Gardeners have short memories it seems. They just don't get it. Each year they forget the yield per plant and what a couple extra plants can do to create an oversupply. As we near the end of the gardening season, baskets are full. Sharing has risen to a level of near aggregation and still the produce keeps coming.
Roadside stands, farmers' markets and the super gardener down the road compete in overkill.
At this point, cooks have exhausted their many variations on the tomato, their 500 ways to use zucchini as well as their many clever ways to get kids to eat green peppers. The College of Wooster's game plan earlier this week, as College of Wooster coach Jim Barnes saw it, was to make freshman quarterback Jeff Spraggins seem invisible. The Scots' other 10 offensive starters, Barnes said, would be expected to raise their games so that Spraggins, who replaced injured starter Justin Abraham under center Saturday against Kenyon, would hardly be noticed. Well, the first part of Barnes' scheme came off without a hitch, as the entire Scots' offense performed near peak efficiency, piling up 595 yards of total offense against an outmanned Kenyon defense. Spraggins, though, still managed to get himself noticed by tying a school record with five touchdown passes, four going to wideout Chris Cabot, as the Scots rolled to an impressive 45-8 win before a homecoming crowd of 2,455.