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You feel a tinge of jealousy when
your neighbor lugs his garden
surplus to your doorstep every fall, and have given more than a passing glance to those vegetable seed catalogs he is always carting around.
You delight in the taste of a perfect home-grown tomato just plucked from the vine, and take it personally when store-purchased arugula falls short of your expectations, or when you can't find it at all.
But visions of blistered hands raw from weeks of hoeing, a backyard brimming with prolific weeds and compost foul enough to keep even the mailman away always leave you running for the nearest can of string beans.
Drop that can opener. Gardening experts say there are few excuses for not starting a vegetable plot, and have weeded out most of those that otherwise willing green thumbs cling to when they’re faced with the prospects of planting their first crop.
Following are a few gardening fallacies, followed by a harvest of rebuttals.
There's just no room for a plot.
The last thing a beginner needs is acres of land to consume his every waking hour.
In his book, "Gardening Year”
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