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Article: Our garden gets a rest.
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- May 22, 2008
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Byline: Ann McLellan Lardas
This is the year that I am planning not to garden. It will be the first time in many years with no dirt plot in our yard.
When we moved to Texas, one consolation for being so far from my side of the family was the two gardening seasons, one from February till June and the other from September till the one or two really cold days of December.
My green beans attached themselves to the pampas grass. A banana tree shoot sneaked under the neighbor's fence and launched itself in our yard. Red calla lilies crept under the opposite fence and formed a vibrant row.
The day we sold the house, the garden plot, made ...