Chapters 21 - 25 Summary

Chapter 21: The next month, Dad gets a letter from the Government forbidding him from growing anything indoors hydroponically. The Government letter uses a lot of big words and the Garners have trouble understanding it. Luke is the only one who can decipher its meaning, having practiced by reading the thick Government books Jen loaned him. Apparently, the Government has discovered that Dad has been buying plastic tubing and other items needed for hydroponics. They order him to hand over all the supplies he has bought because the Government has outlawed hydroponics because this method has been used to grow illegal drugs in the past. Dad is upset. He had hoped to supplement the farm income with the hydroponic vegetables.

Luke again feels guilty and wonders whether his family wouldn't have more money if they didn't have to feed a third child...