Potato Grown in Garbage Bag Makes Movie History!

I am updating my log of events surrounding the Home Grown Food Network experimental house project in Desert Hot Springs, California. I was recording the fact that, while we were out of town about three weeks ago, a professional camera crew mounted a tripod, and using ladders to climb on to peer over our fence, shot some pictures of our front yard. This reminds me of my blog “Home Grown Tomato Wins Oscar“. Note, we have only have two tomato plants in our front yard this year, and neither of them, in my opinion, is Oscar winning material. So why would anyone try to take pictures of our front yard without asking our permission- or worse, wait until they knew we were out of town before doing so?. We have a No Trespass notice posted in front of the project. We have supplied Management with the detailed plans that guide work on this project, so this current bout of filming is even more inexplicable. And over six foot high fences no less!

It may be that the Park Management read our blog about “Growing Potatoes in a Garbage Bag” and, not liking this, hired a crew to shoot footage of our potato plant blooming in a garbage bag. Using unusual containers in 2009 gardens is part of a trend in the home gardening movement. Throughout the country, you can find everything from”old boots to birdcages ” in use as containers for growing food plants. Last year Management condemned our use of a recycled birdcage to support tomato plants in our west side garden. When we pointed out that this is common practice they stated that they objected to it because the birdcage wasn’t store bought, apparently insinuating that if it were accompanied by a receipt it would be ok! Perhaps Management think they might like to re-open this issue, this time using our potato growing in a recycled garbage bag as the basis for legal action!

Try as I might to find a motive for hiring a camera crew I cannot do so, and, in spite of the above future legal action scenario, I tend to conclude that someone wants to make our Garbage Bag Potato Plant into a movie star.