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["Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>]

Where did you buy your gooseberries?

---- Original Message ----
From: mijwiz@yahoo.com
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Neighbors
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 13:48:37 -0700 (PDT)

>My husband and I are ripping our lawn up to plant all sorts of good
>things. Our next door neighbor, who has a pretty big lawn, is
>allergic to grass, so he can't mow his own lawn, and he's practically
>under house arrest when others mow their lawns. One wonders why he
>has a lawn himself. Anyway, his wife said their ambition is to plant
>a 4 x 8 foot garden in their lawn this year. I wish them luck.
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>I should be out planting gooseberries, which finally arrived today.
>You NAFEXers advised me that the deer won't bother them. I hope
>you're right. The deer ate my tomato plants to the ground last year
>before we built a better deer fence. Then something got into the deer
>fence and ate a hot pepper plant, peppers and all. We're building a
>better fence this year.
>
>Melissa
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>--- On Tue, 5/12/09, Ernest Plutko <ernestplutko@wiktel.com> wrote:
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>From: Ernest Plutko <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
>Subject: [NAFEX] raspberries
>To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
>Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 4:12 PM
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>Bought some Anne yellow raspberries and Souris red raspberries. 
>Never had them before.  I read that Souris has a very good flavor.  I
>decided that grass is a pain so I am planting all my lawn with fruit
>bushes and trees to my wife's dismay. I'm tired of cutting grass.
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