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The annual battle begins.
Round one.
Into the backyard ring wearing spanking-clean garden gloves and weighing in at 120 (or thereabouts, no real need for total accuracy on this particular point) climbs Grace Gardener. Her opponents — Creepy Crawlers, Flying Fiends, Carousing Critters and Wily Weather — are waiting for her.
This spring Grace is absolutely determinea to win. Her foes will never again outwit her. This year she will produce luscious vegetables, perfect posies and fancy fruit.
Furthermore, Grace will fight the battle of the garden using only her own cunning ingenuity and completely natural methods. No chemicals whatsoever!
• Step one: Knowing the tiny wren not only brightens the backyard with her carefree songs, but gobbles up enormous quantities of insects which plague people as well as plants, Grace hurries to put up at least one wren house to attract the birds to her yard.
• Step two: The little gardener plows (or roto-tills) her plot and sends off a soil sample to the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service for a free analysis.
• Step three: Grace gets out her rake and cleans up any old leaves or debris leftover from winter, thus eliminating hiding places for all kinds of bugs and even small critters.
• Step four: Along the1 same lines as step three, Grace keeps the birdbath water fresh and her yard free of standing pools of water so mosquito larvae and other unwanted insects will have fewer places to raise their many young.
• Step five: Grace remembers all the garden tips her Grandma gave her and makes a list.
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