Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

Sam Gamgee: "The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm.” A walk-and-talk in the garden this morning, pivoting upon the lettuce patch.

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Quoted byWith long Long Covid along, always the deepening into more minute, immediate particulars. Today, then, seed harvest on Echinacea and the last of the lettuce. Tiny, the population sizes needed to manage lettuce genetics well, relative to most crop types; so, a good fit, workwise.