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For quite awhile, my entire back yard was given over to a vegetable garden. The neighbors were none too pleased.

Eventually, neither was the wife. Unfortunately, most find a lawn more attractive than cabbage, corn and carrots.

Of course, a green lawn, good land left fallow or marginal land left ungrazed, is simply another aspect of conspicuous consumption...

by redstar on Tue May 13th, 2008 at 12:37:10 PM EST
Hello redstar.  I understand your comment very well.  In the Western world, many of us seem to have similar experiences with neighbors and even family members : they are not pleased, to say the least, with what we are doing because they have other ideas and views, on all kinds of things, not only gardening.  What a luxury to have time to spend at "discussions"!  Things get completely different if one doesn't have the means to buy decent food.  Then, production of vegetables in or around the house can be a necessity.  That's where the windowsill story is coming in ...

Prof. Dr. Willem Van Cotthem Beeweg 36 - B 9080 Zaffelare (Belgium)
by willem vancotthem (willem.vancotthem@gmail.com) on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 06:26:09 AM EST
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