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Re: [GWL]: Dumb ideas

    I had a personal experience with dummies yesterday.  We live in the
country and our house is not visible from the road.  I have plantings of
some of my test materials in the front.  As I was leaving, I found a man in
my row of experimental quinces smiling and waving at me, carrying a box of
fruit out.  I asked what he was doing.  He said he was picking the pears and
that he had gotten permission.  Seems he got permission from our neighbor to
pick pears (they have a few) and thought my place was part of the neighbor's
property.  He was also too dumb to see that the quinces were NOT pears.  It
was a test plot of non-astringent quinces that are somewhat pyriform, but
weren't ripe.  He gave them back, but they were not ripe enough to do much
with, and I lost well over half - he had already picked several large boxes
without once testing to even see if they were any good, which might have
alerted him to the fact that they WEREN'T pears.
    I DID have a market for ripe fruit after it had been tested, but not the
stuff he picked.  That wiped out some income I'd counted on, too.
    Nuff said.
-Lon
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>From: Jeff Ball <jeffball@starband.net>
>To: Gardenwriters@topica.com
>Subject: [GWL]: Dumb ideas
>Date: Thu, Oct 4, 2001, 9:58 AM
>

>A psychiatrist friend admitted that in her early years of marriage she tried
>a small vegetable garden; she did well with the lettuce, tomatoes, and
>peppers, but had no luck with the radishes.  She had planted them 12 seeds
>in a tight little circle; so that the radishes would grow in bunches just as
>they are sold in the grocery store.

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