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To: who knows what evil?
Uuuhhmmmm....It is common for a family garden to have 100 tomato plants. On what grounds or what potential violation is the raid justified? Are homegrown tomatoes becoming illegal? I would truly like to learn more.
The prepper thread might also be interested in your experience.
135 posted on 06/22/2014 1:02:40 PM PDT by SisterK (behold a pale horse)
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To: SisterK
It is common for a family garden to have 100 tomato plants.

I actually have seed for nearly 400 varieties of tomatoes. We will grow those out when we get home to Tennessee.

We had been growing tomatoes, pepper, corn and other items on the same plot in a residential neighborhood for five years...no problem. Last November? No-knock SWAT raid. A neighbor (another town employee) with an ax to grind said we were growing 'something else' because he had seen 'grow lights' in the room next to the greenhouse. You know...lights for our VEGETABLE seedlings.

Next thing you know...SWAT!

This is just a fair warning to gardeners that there MAY be people out there that have an ax to grind or that may want to look like a champion of the people by doing things like this. My wife is diabetic, and the stress is just wonderful. (extreme sarcasm...she recently had to start an insulin protocol)

138 posted on 06/22/2014 2:30:24 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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