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NJCher

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14. oh definitely replace them
Thu Jun 11, 2015, 12:50 PM
Jun 2015

Go get plants the size of what yours had grown into. If there is a cost over $30, they should pay it.

It's important that they pay, because if they don't, they think they're entitled to careless work. Then some other gardener down the line will be going through what you are going through. Let's not forget, also, that putting in plants takes time and effort. You are already out that.

Just an example: I was watching my time yesterday and it took 45" to plant tomatoes and build bamboo teepees for two tomato containers. Twenty-two minutes to plant 20-odd seedlings around wire tomato cages.

Another reason you should plant them is that you are going to miss them all season long and every time you miss them, you'll think about this incident. In my case, I didn't replace them. It was a mint garden that was mowed down with a weed wacker. I thought for sure it would come back. It didn't. All summer long I needed that mint, and I missed it so.


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