How Big Is Your Garden

OK so we are supposed to eat more fruit and vegetables but in some cities we are restricted from growing them.

Can you say oxymoron?

Lets wander down to Georgia where a man was fined $5K for his home garden.

Steve Miller a Clarkston, Ga., man was fined $5,200 for growing too many vegetables in his backyard.

So just how long had he been growing these illicit plants you ask?

Miller had been growing legumes for 15 years, selling them at local farmers markets and giving them away to friends, before he was cited by the Dekalb County Code Enforcement office for the first time last September. It's illegal to garden at such a level in the zone where he lives.

OK now you are starting to think he was growing those leafy plants that you dry, roll and smoke.

Oh no, he was growing the more dangerous plants like one and a quarter acres in production with crops like celery, tomatoes, lettuce, Swiss chard, beets, cilantro, carrots and cabbage.

That's the wrong kind of green in Georgia I guess.

Maybe he had he been growing pecans, peaches and peanuts, which Georgia is famous for, he would not have been fined.