McBride has a community garden. It has planting boxes available for those that want to do some gardening. We always like to support efforts like that, so every year my wife rents two boxes; one for ourselves, and one to grow carrots and beets for the Community Garden organization to sell to raise money.
She did that again this year. I helped her plant the hundreds of tiny carrot seeds and beet seeds in the box to for the Community Garden. She planted other vegetable seeds in our second box. We left the garden happy to have done the planting and could sit back to watch them grow.
A couple of weeks later when we visited the garden to check if anything was sprouted, we were dismayed at what we found. Some good-natured person had noticed that the soil in our boxes was low, and since there was still a lot of additional top-up soil available in the pile, and thinking they would be doing us a favor, wheelbarrowed loads of soil to our boxes and filled them to the rim with new soil. This of course, smothered all the carrot and beets we had planted and destroyed any chance of them coming up.
Discouraged (and miffed) at what had happened, over the weekend we once again planted more carrot and beet seeds in the bed. Hopefully, this time they will be left undisturbed to grow.
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