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Re:Winning a London Garden Allotment by SnowHill9902 on Saturday July 30, 2022 @07:02PM (#32291246)
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago; the second best is now.
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Re:Winning a London Garden Allotment by mafro on Saturday July 30, 2022 @11:46PM (#32292981)
My father-in-law said this to me once, and as an Englishman living in Australia I thought it was a particularly brilliant aphorism!
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Re:Winning a London Garden Allotment by saghm on Sunday July 31, 2022 @12:14AM (#32293123)
I understand the meaning of this saying, but it's always sounded weird to me because it makes it sound like there's been a ban on planting new trees since 19 years ago.
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