
This is Vito. I can't remember how long he said he'd had his plot, but he said he gave it up for a year recently, then took it up again after a period of ill health, when the doctor advised him that it would be good for him.
...the banks all green with celery, the endive rejoicing in a rivulet; the cucumber snaking amidst the grass and swelling to greatness... (Virgil's Georgics IV:120, trans. C. Day Lewis)
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