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Country gardener: The diet of worms
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TWO thousand worms moved into our garden last week. Strange, but
true. And they did not only come by invitation: I actually paid for
them. So, if it is possible to exercise ownership over a worm, I
suppose I can say that those 2,000 worms now belong to me.
Many unexpected alterations have occurred in my life in the two
years since I started to cultivate this garden out of an acre of
rough pasture in Fife; but the fact that I now read the gardening
pages of newspapers and magazines - after studiously avoiding them
for 50 years - is a change I would never have predicted. Instinct
leads me ...
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