Meanwhile at Moritzplatz, one of Berlin's busiest roundabouts, Robert Shaw has started a mobile vegetable patch.

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After her lunch-making duties, Inokawa returns home to do a little work on her vegetable patch.

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Vicente's 81-year-old father Pedro still lives here, tending to the chickens and the horses, and looking after the fertile vegetable patch.

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In the village of Kasia(ph), near the border with Zimbabwe, Judith Kayaba(ph) is weeding a vegetable patch with three of her sons.

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The 49-year-old has tended to a vegetable patch since he was 13 and his home garden's crop currently includes beets, Tuscan kale and celery root.

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Two segments of a late Edo Period scroll now in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin show bewigged Dutchmen smoking, playing billiards and tending their vegetable patch.

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His reconnoitre had led him, through a vegetable patch given up to weeds, into what had been a garden, its single remaining flower bed marked with seed packets that told what its several rows contained.

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And meanwhile, with petrodollars sent from the Gulf, and perhaps a lush vegetable-patch, many Sri Lankans can somewhat mitigate the evils of inflation.

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