My dad, like many older West Tennesseans steeped in our rural heritage, viewed a man’s garden as a reflection of his character. To plant beans in anything other than geometrically straight rows was something no self-respecting man would ever allow to happen, he told me many times, and as for weeds — well allowing weeds ...
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