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A bumper crop of home gardens blossoms amid a pandemic

Lots of people are picking up the trowel these days. Like the emergence of colorful wildflowers in a vast field of drab weeds, home gardening has blossomed as a wildly popular and therapeutic pastime.

Antonio Luis, a physician who was hospitalized with COVID-19, stands in the neighborhood garden that he and his partner, Salim Rouwayheb, and their roommate, Matt Richards, helped create in an empty lot in Philadelphia's Point Breeze section.
Antonio Luis, a physician who was hospitalized with COVID-19, stands in the neighborhood garden that he and his partner, Salim Rouwayheb, and their roommate, Matt Richards, helped create in an empty lot in Philadelphia's Point Breeze section.Read moreTIM TAI / Staff Photographer