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Watching their garden grow

Kids will dig in if they are part of decision making

Sunday, June 8, 2008

By Elysia Nest
Gazette Reporter

So maybe your daughter didn’t bat an eyelash at the kaleidoscopic wildflower garden you cultivated last year, and perhaps your son showed his enthusiasm for your prized rose bushes by blasting the life out of them with his water gun and smearing the fallen petals across his face like war paint. Children and gardening, it has been said, mix about as well as ferns in full sun....

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