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they (the beans) grow up a pole. You have to stake them a certain way.”
What then?
“I’ve seen them hanging in clusters.” But, “sometimes they get contrary, they don’t always want to go up the pole. Then you have to be very careful and wrap them around the pole.”
To insure a good crop, Updike’s grandmother planted seeds according to the moon signs. Updike herself doesn’t subscribe to that method, but she remembers her grandmother’s devotion to it.
Asked how the system worked, Updike explained, “You plant under
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