02/02/2025
So sometime last year, around the middle of September, we declared that we were going to quit raising a garden after all, we were getting a little older. About the time that the snow started blowing through the air we got to talking about liking to have a good mess of scalded lettuce and onions so we decided that come spring we would sow a small lettuce bed and set a few onions. Sometime around January Kathy made me a sandwich with a tomato she had bought at the grocery store and after biting into that tomato I made the comment that maybe we could just plant a couple of plants, maybe one Mr. Stripy and a yellow one for sandwiches. She said "okay, we can handle that. Then the winds of March began and later, with a few days of warm weather, we decided that just a short row of green beans would be good, you know so we could have one good mess of tender garden-fresh green beans. Since there is nothing any better than coleslaw with green beans, we decided that it would be no trouble to have a couple of heads of cabbage fresh out of the garden. Then Kathy said "oh, you know, a few of those young potatoes would be so good with the beans" and I agreed. And crook necked squash, we just had to have a hill of those to fry, trouble of that is that you need at lease 4 hills so you can get enough mature ones at one time to have a mess. Corn, oh yeah, just a few hills of corn won't be much trouble. By this time, we had been by and stopped at Surber and Son, The Farm Bureau, Rural King and Walkers Green house. So now we have a few little packets of seeds and an assortment of plants that we wanted to try just see what they tasted like. We had chocolate tommy toes, Cherokee Purple tomatoes, some seeds that her sister gave her, a few that my mom had saved for years. When you have lived this way all your life, like me, there is no quitting, it is in the blood. The tractor, oh, I bought it in the middle of all this mess this year, might need it next year!
📷Charles Pauley
