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in the abstract tor some people to grow Impatiens from seeds, she didn’t see how I could do it. She threw down the gauntlet in front of our son.
“I’ll bet you $10 that you can’t grow Impatiens from seeds,” she challenged.
I had to take her up. What kind of precedent would I have been setting for my only heir if I didn’t?
At the time I had never even seen an Impatiens seed. When I did, I knew where my wife was coming from. They’re so tiny that 1,000 of them could fit in a shot glass.
I had to build a light cart with PVC pipe. Cost about $100 total, and soon my little bet-winners were nestling into their potting soil, and I was monitoring their progress every day.
Except there weren’t any in the beginning.
As a matter of fact, I considered buying some Impatiens plants, transplanting them into my trays, and springing them on my unknowing wife. Only thing was that she was monitoring them every day as well, and she
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