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   Re: Just some garden talk   
   04 Sep 19 23:06:59   
   
   From: T@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 9/4/19 6:32 PM, Pavel314 wrote:   
   >> I can't grow big tomatoes as I can not   
   >> afford a back hole to come in and dig me   
   >> a 6 foot deep and wide and back fill with   
   >> top soil.  Every time I have tried, I wind   
   >> up with blossom rot.  The lady at the university   
   >> extension explained the matter to me, so I have   
   >> stuck with cherries, which I am very successful at.   
   >   
   > My wife makes barrows, long hills of compost and topsoil to grow things in.   
   Instead of digging down, she builds up. I do have a backhoe so I could dig   
   deep trenches, but we don't find that necessary.   
   >   
   > Paul   
   >   
      
   One of my customers has horses and a backhoe.  Every spring   
   he empties his stables into his garden and backhoe it under.   
   On my gosh what he can grow!!!   
      
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