Sowing and Reaping and Watching Out For What's Lurking in the Sweet Corn
When I was a little girl, I lived with my family out in the country on a lot that was nearly an acre in size. About one third of that lot was made up of our garden. We grew all sorts of things in that garden, but some things we grew every year. Strawberries, peas, green beans, sweet corn, lima beans, carrots, watermelon, cantaloupe, and tomatoes were our regular crops. Dad and Mom would experiment with other things from year to year, but those were the basics that they kept going back to. Some of the other plants they tried growing were onions, radishes, rhubarb, lettuce, cabbage, strawberry popcorn, peanuts, and potatoes. They liked to try something new once in a while for the sake of variety. Yesterday, I was thinking about the garden that we had back then for two reasons. The first reason was that for the first time in a long time, the sun was shining brightly here yesterday. We had blue skies instead of the dreary, drab grey that has ...