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Favre to Vikings, Cathy to garden

By CATHERINE IDZERDA ( Contact ) Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 11 a.m.

According to ESPN, Brett Favre has signed with the Vikings.

In an earlier blog, I suggested that Favre needed something else to do, such as gardening. Really, if the guy had to battle tomato blight and squash vine borer on a regular basis, he’d forget about football.

Please discuss. Irrational suppositions and conspiracy theories are allowed, this is the Internet, after all.

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mperko
Aug 20, 2009 at 5:50 a.m.
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I think Favre left his lovely farm in Mississippi because he couldn't handle the heat of the summer and the boll wevils.

elbee
Aug 20, 2009 at 2:18 a.m.
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Favre $10M? Good to see the Cash For Clunkers program is still in effect.

fschultz
Aug 19, 2009 at 1:11 p.m.
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lol @ totellthetruth

totellthetruth
Aug 19, 2009 at 11:10 a.m.
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I think that Zuchinni and Cucumbers as well as most other green vegetables make a fine main course. It's those purple things, like Eggplants and Vikings that are really nauseating.

SarahB1
Aug 19, 2009 at 8:20 a.m.
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Catherine: I heard that Favre does have a small garden and that his "crops" have all been harvested for the season. Maybe he needed something else to do.

JohnDoe
Aug 18, 2009 at 8:06 p.m.
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Favre will be an unwitting participant in gardening when he finds himself "planted" in the frozen tundra....and he comes self fertilized to boot.

staticrush
Aug 18, 2009 at 3:59 p.m.
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there are recipes online where you mix baking soda, oil and water and spray on to fight powdery mildew

Nancy
Aug 18, 2009 at 3:56 p.m.
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Not to mention Japanese Beetles!...

JoeSchmo
Aug 18, 2009 at 3:52 p.m.
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Any suggestions on getting rid of powdery mildew? I've tried fungicide and milk..

staticrush
Aug 18, 2009 at 3:52 p.m.
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If you can't say something nice, you are not supposed to say anything at all. Blogs are to inspire dialog, not take the place of it.

tomtom
Aug 18, 2009 at 2:35 p.m.
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Nothing better to write? This article has no meaning or merit.
Find something of interest to right about!!!

fschultz
Aug 18, 2009 at 12:55 p.m.
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Say what you will about Brett's gardening abilities, I think he'd be a great backup quaterback. Not a starter. Kinda like a zucchini or a cucumber: A fine vegetables but not suitable as main dishes.

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