{"id":98391,"date":"2018-09-23T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/magic-logic-gardening-and-the-lunar-calendar\/"},"modified":"2018-09-23T12:04:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T05:04:30","slug":"magic-logic-gardening-and-the-lunar-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/magic-logic-gardening-and-the-lunar-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic, logic, gardening and the lunar calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nCold hard facts only get you so far on the allotmentI believe in magic beans. I carry three (or more) with me always. It was an accident at first. They were left over from seed sowing, purple-podded \u2018Trail of Tears\u2019. I found them in a jacket pocket, smooth, rounded, reassuring.After a while I transferred them from jacket to jacket, my fingers sometimes searching them out, tumbling them around, a caressing of luck. A connection with wonder, perhaps. Later, they found their way into my jeans, became constant companions. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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