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The Magic Garden, The Square Foot Garden

My Dad's Magic Garden "Wow, dad! Where did you get those amazing tomatoes?"  That's a question we'd often ask my dad when we (me and my two sisters) were young.  And my dad would always say, "Oh, I just picked them from my garden out back."  We'd laugh and say, no really! We didn't really have a garden or much of an "out back". We lived in a fairly urban neighborhood on a fairly busy intersection.  Well, as fairly urban and as fairly busy as Green Bay, Wisconsin gets.  We had a very tiny yard, though it sure seemed huge and magical growing up.  But there was no garden... that we could see. So maybe my dad only had access to this invisible garden in our backyard or maybe it was a tomato stand down the street.  He always stuck to his story.  This garden also produced watermelons, apples, and pineapples on occasion. Instant Garden, Insanity Garden Fast forward a couple decades later.  It was early July 2007 when my 8 months pr