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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 4/5/2005, you wrote:
> <<"No weeds, no, sure don't see any.  Don't that beat all.  But I still
> couldn't do it."
> "Why not?"
> "No room in between the plants to hoe the weeds.">>
>
> Ah, yes, I've had that conversation more than once. My mother has come round
> though to the way I plant peppers -- mine are thicker-walled and bigger than
> those she raises, and she's no slouch as a gardener.

My first garden on my own was very much like those I grew up with.  Long 
rows of the same thing with plenty of room between.  As I started reading 
things like Organic Gardening and some of their early books I learned a 
different way.  A little experimenting and I learned to use the intensive 
methods but I could not convince anyone else even when they could see the 
results in few weeds.

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