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Gardening

tazkcmo

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9. When I was a child

Reply to El Mimbreno (Reply #7)

Tue Jul 18, 2017, 10:25 AM

Jul 2017

We always had a huge garden and a corn patch. My dad always planted over the septic tank and what ever was planted in that "sweet spot" grew like wild. Mom tried zucchini for the first time and it got the sweet spot. We had zucchini in every way imaginable for about two years.

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