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Posted by admin to Eric Plaksin, Make, Own., Rachel Bynum, Virginia, Wary, Your, mulch, of on 2007-10-03, 20:00:00

We live in a world of phobias, but here's a new one: fear of mulch. And there's some basis for it.

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Posted by admin to An, Element, Italy, Salad, Surprise, United States, Your, for, of on 2007-09-26, 20:00:00

My delight in growing odd edibles has led me down some strange roads, at times wild and exotic, at other times so homely I feel almost foolish to have trod them. This year's experiment with a leafy green named sculpit (also called scuplit or sclopit) was a case of the latter.

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Posted by admin to Another, Chance, Fun, Plot, Put, Some, Year,, Your, in, to on 2007-01-03, 21:00:00

New Year's resolutions are useless. In fact, I think they're a sort of jinx. Proclamations about losing five pounds or maintaining a perfect garden are doomed to failure because they're too much like homework. "Positive change," as the self-help books call it, happens accidentally when you're fully engaged in life. Progress occurs when you're so caught up in a project that you can't quit.