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March 20, 2010
Katie Whitney, watering her garden, Ann Arbor, MI

Busting Sod

Confessions of a novice gardener

by Katie Whitney

posted 11/25/2009

I killed zucchini. And it was my backup plant. It's so easy to grow that it's literally a joke: someone who buys a zuke in the summer has no friends. As a first-time community gardener with Project Grow, not to mention a first-time vegetable gardener, I took certain measures against humiliation. But humiliation finds a way.

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