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Small garden, big harvest: surprising success with corn

Last summer the Napa County Master Gardeners field-testing group agreed to try growing corn. I think I must have missed the meeting when this was decided as I have avoided growing corn for many years. In my view, corn takes too much space for a small garden. Because it is wind pollinated, it needs to […]

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