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Darn that HOLEY SOCK!

THERE may be many worse things in life than a hole in your sock, but truthfully a sock with a hole in it makes a day more miserable than it needs to be. Your heel rubs on the back of your gumboot or your toe sticks out and you get a blister inside your work boots. There is little joy to be had on holey sock day.Then the dread day comes when there are no socks without holes. What to do? ! some might say, but no, my friend, we are Earth Gardeners. We can

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