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loquats
My friend 88greenthumb gave me some loquat seeds, and I planted them in some compost-just-recently turned into soil.

All sorts of things sprouted. A tomato, for one thing. At last what I thought were the loquats started to come up, but also, some really intense and vigorous weeds, that I suspected were, oh, maybe raspberries. These kept *persisting* even though I pulled them out.

Eventually I checked to see what loquat seedlings looked like. The things I'd thought were loquat seedlings w...