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3 The garden store supplied us
j® with^wlOO dollars worth of soil, i plants and tools. Several hours later I I gazed proudly on my small garden I of perennial herbs, with space for I seeds in the spring. My parents had ; contributed two European strawberry plants when they stopped by on their way to Florida.
In the spring I planted lettuce and radishes as well as some tomatoes up against the house in another spot. We had our own “salad” and I was thrilled.
The following year Jeff enlarged the garden. I was excited about a new theory that suggested growing things in circles. I also bought a bag of cow manure at the insistence of the garden store cleric.
Someone else told me about making a compost pit, so I tried that, too. The next day it rained and the pit filled with water. Hie following day we had guests and as we sat on the deck, the aroma of manure wafted about. I smiled. They grinned. We moved inside.
A week later, the compost pit was still a mini-pond with carrot tops floating in it. I filled it in (so much for organic compost) and planted my seeds in circles, just like in the diagram.
But I must have done something wrong because nothing much grew the way it was supposed to. Still, the tomatoes did well, and there were more strawberries to pick. The perennial herbs did well too, except for the invasion of the fire ants, who selected the oregano to engulf.
I sprinkled the ants with boric
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