I carefully placed the seeds in rows, and covered them with soil. With my tennis shoes on, I stepped on top of the soil to pack it down. Grandma Sugar sat at the edge of the garden making signs to put at the end of each row, with a date on it. Each year we would keep those signs in a scrapbook with photos of me and Grandma Sugar in our garden. Grandma Sugar had a whole basket full of seeds to plant. One by one, we planted rows of corn, beans, cucumbers, onions, lettuce, tomatoes, and lots more flowers. Grandma Sugar would even dry some of those flowers each year in the basement of her house.
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