"Mike_Duffy" wrote in message
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On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 11:43:00 -0400, songbird wrote:

> Would do much better to encourage people to grow
> their own food instead. It's much cheaper and
> better.

Growing beans on the balcony of a city apartment might give you enough at
the end of the summer to feed one person one meal.

The 'traditional' family farm required several acres and continual work of
the entire family sunup to sundown from spring to autumn in order to put
away enough food to last the winter.

Your idea is well-intentioned, but ill-considered.
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We have been away for a few weeks. The first thing I did when I returned
was look at the garden.

Before I went away, I planted dwarf green beans. Most of the seeds came up
as expected. Three plants got very tall.

I assumed there was a mistake and some regular size green beans had been
mixed in with the dwarf seeds.

I now see we have 3 massive sunflowers!!!