A group of women was standing around a mound of potting soil at Gertens, carefully scooping the dark stuff into their pots with trowels.
"My 7-year-old son stood next to them, flinging dirt into his container with gloved hands and the passion of a terrier at a rat hole. Soil fell off the wagon and onto the greenhouse floor. Soil ended up in his hair.
"That's the way a man does it," said a good-natured garden center employee standing nearby, who happened to be a guy.
