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["clanSkeen" <sgian AT planetc.com>]

> All this just shows that God knows more about planting than we do...


Sorry, Ray, but He doesn't.   He's always showing up around here for 
gardening advice.  He's a little embarrassed about screwing up that first 
garden and so I suppose it isn't general knowledge, but He shows up at some 
people's gardens to get pointers.  Does it all the time here.  Of course I 
always offer Him a beer, so that may have something to do with it.  I was 
replacing the cover on one of the green houses today and there He was 
flipping through the seed catalogs and asking about different varieties.  I 
was busy so I just nodded or shook my head and He marked the entries.  He 
asked when I was going to plant the Alpine strawberries as He wanted to see 
how that was done.  I told him around solstice and He smiled, took me a 
minute to realize that's when the full malt batch of beer will be ripe.  Ah, 
what a Kidder!  At least He's not still miffed that when I let Him plant 
half the pumpkins last midsummer, mine turned out almost twice as big as 
His.

James