Aches, pains, cramps . . . Those garden pests!
Gardening is awfully good for the soul, but it can be hell on the body."Sore muscles come with the territory, but when you get such a positive result, you tend to block that out of your mind," says Winnie Harris, program and volunteer coordinator for University City Green, which has planted thousands of trees and bulbs in West Philadelphia neighborhoods during the last dozen years.
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