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Birmingham-- Sometimes instinct isn't a good substitute for knowledge. Commentator and neophyte gardener Dan Carsen recently learned a lesson about biting the bug that feeds you.

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Dan Carsen is a freelance writer living in Birmingham.

-- Dan Carsen, September 16, 2008