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Article: How your garden could grow: YOU will NEED a GROWN-UP's PERMISSION (AND his or her willing COOPERATION) FOR THESE PROJECTS, but wouldn't it be cool to 'Grow' a house? or harvest giant vegetables?(The Home Forum)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- April 30, 2002
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Byline: Nancy Humphrey Case
You will need a grown-up's permission (and his or her willing cooperation) for these projects, but wouldn't it be cool to 'grow' a house? or harvest giant vegetables?
Sharon Lovejoy knows that the way most adults garden isn't much fun for kids. She quotes an old saying: "Long, straight rows are such a bore; gardens shouldn't be a chore."
Ms. Lovejoy spent a lot of time in her grandmother's large garden in California when she was young. She went exploring every day and discovered such things as "fairy steppingstones" in foxgloves (the "steppingstones" lead bees into the heart of the flower). She held snail races ...