[AT] Old time gardens

[Mark Greer]

Sugar snap peas are great eaten right off the vine. I have a hard time
keeping  my kids out of the garden when they are ripe.
Mark Greer

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Willer" <gwill at toast.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Old time gardens


> Len,
>
> The peppers are the best.  I wish I hadn't plowed mine under now.  I make
it
> a point to not leave any to get very old and too hot.
>
> The tomatoes are second best eaten in the garden, but I feel like I should
> have a salt shaker along.  A couple things I haven't tried... the Okra and
> asparagus.  I may never.  My dog, Reba, likes to dig her own potatoes and
> snitch an occasional ear of raw sweet corn.  I'll pass.
>
> I'm sure it has been more than a month since we have had any rain at all.
>
> It sounds weird, but I plan to plow again in the spring... it keeps me a
> little ways ahead of the weeds and I enjoy doing it.
>
> George Willer
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Len Rugen" <lrugen at c-magic.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 5:05 PM
> Subject: [AT] Old time gardens
>
>
> > It was a crazy afternoon.  I'm trying to fix a SEWER problem, I guess my
> > pipe crushed under a driveway because of the wet ground.  Anyway, I had
to
> > make a trip to the farm in the mud to weld a broken mini-backhoe and
look
> > for some other tools.  It has drizzled all day and I decided to take a
> > pass
> > thru what was left of our garden.  We have pretty much abandoned it, but
> > the
> > fall rains have revived the okra and bell peppers.
> >
> > That got me to thinking of the times as a kid (and ever since) of the
> > things
> > that get ate before the leave the garden.  It seems there is nothing
quite
> > like eating something right where it grew, starting with peas in the
> > spring.
> > Of course, the cherry tomatoes were the main course all summer, but
there
> > are lots of things that I like raw.  All the cleaning that is necessary
is
> > to wipe it off on a clean spot of my shirt.  I had a pepper today, just
> > eat
> > to the seads and throw the rest out.  Still dripping with the rain.
Okra
> > is
> > even good raw, if you don't mid the fuzz.
> >
> > The old farmsteads used to have a few apple trees that had a few apples
> > each
> > fall.  Good to eat, but you had to cut around the bug holes at times.
> > Good
> > deer hunting near those trees too.
> >
> >
> >
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