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I always wanted to have large, beautiful gardens… and now that I have them, I remember just how much time and energy goes into weeding all that landscaping. When we just had the few little planters on the deck, it wasn’t nearly as time-consuming of an issue, especially when I forgot the plants existed! Any of you who have ever spent time in a garden or with a lawn know…

When Emily and I were living in our first place here in Seattle, she came home from the Rainbow Hop on Phinney Ridge one year with a sunflower seed planted in a tiny little cup. She put it out on our deck, not really expecting much, until, eventually, we had a 7-foot sunflower that had been replanted several times and needed to be tied to the railing to keep it from…