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AV & DM inter. M/M/ Sulk. --5--
Tape 25-2 8/11/72

DM: Mrs. Sulkusky do you grow things too, you're a gardener too aren't you

/Joe wouldn't give her a chance to answer/

JS: Do you know how that is

MS: Joe don't talk so loud

DM: I'm just teasing don't worry about me

JS: Break the [blank space] off of a plant and raise a lot but I got disgusted with that
I use to give our neighbors [blank space].

AV: The African violets

JS: Yeh, I'll ripped that off and plant it and raise young ones

DM: These are expensive in the stores because they're hard to grow

MS: I used to grow a lot of them on the table there but little by little they get,
there's too much work takin' care of them

DM: You have to baby them

JS: I take a chance with anything

AV: That's right

DM: You must have about 3,000 plants in this yard that you baby, do you realize
that, pet every night before you go to bed

JS: There's a lot of people come and look at the garden and say, how in the hell is
it your garden ain't got no weeds or grass in it, I say, there's a place outside
the line that the weeds and grass grow, gardens are for vegetables and and stuff
that grow in here

DM: I was going to ask you the same thing, do you pull each one of them by hand

JS: They used to say, what

MS: I said you pull all the weeds out

JS: Well see the trouble is with the people they're a little bit too lazy sometimes
to bend their back

MS: Oh you think everybody's like you

JS: Well I'll tell you this, when you see a weed grow up and it's startin' gettin'
seeds on you just grab them by the ears and throw them outside and let them