WEEDS be gone: Whether it's meditative, rewarding or a bore, one garden chore simply needs to be done.

Newsday (Melville, NY) | June 29, 2006 | Copyright

Byline: Carol Polsky

Jun. 29--Jean Fessenden, a 50-year-old working mother in Greenlawn, knows all about a certain irresistible, bordering-on-loony, impulse. A few years ago, she was overseeing her son's birthday party at an outdoor amusement park when she found herself on her knees, weeding a flower bed. "Someone asked me a question, thinking I worked there, and I thought, 'Wow.' I didn't even realize what I was doing, it came so naturally to me." At home, she prefers to weed at night, with a miner's light on her forehead, and sometimes the car headlights ...

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