The Winter Garden
When
we first moved back to Florida's far north country in June of '99 it was
too late and too hot to get the garden going. In late September we cut
the weeds and prepared the soil by hand in a small corner of the garden
to planted the winter vegetables....turnips, mustard greens, collard greens,
radishes, lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflour and vidalia onions.
Granny
had not been able to plant a garden for several years, and I had
not had one in probably 20 years, so this was quite an event for all of us.
Granny was convinced that we needed lots of help operating the
garden implements. The turnips and mustard greens were broadcast.
The rest were planted in rows except the cabbage and collards were
planted in the flower bed in the front yard. (Ya know yer a redkneck
when ya got collard greens growin' in the front yard).
Everything
did well except the cabbage and the cauliflour. We didn't grow tomatoes but
picked them at a local farm after the commercial pickers had already gone
through. At $3 for a five gallon bucket, it was quite a
deal. After our success with the winter garden, we were all
looking forward to the planting the spring garden.
We wanted to plant the whole garden in the spring, but it was far too
big to be tilled by hand.
We had to find a better way before we could cultivate the whole thing.
Hence the search for modern, labor saving devices began.
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