Those of you that read this regular series know that I am from Hackett, Arkansas, just a mile or so from the Oklahoma border, and just about 10 miles south of the Arkansas River. It was a rural sort of place that did not particularly appreciate education, and just zoom onto my previous posts to understand a bit about it.
I have written about Ma’s garden before and shall not repeat that. If you want to read them, you can look here, here, and here. What I want to talk about tonight is that I have begun harvesting from my own garden recently, and just Monday got the first large tomatoes and purple hull peas. I had been collecting cucumbers for a while.
I garden in a rather unconventional style. For starters, I HATE to hoe and will go to great lengths to avoid it. I do not mind tilling, but my soil was still nice and loose this year and did not even have to do that. At least with tilling, you do it once and are finished for the year.
I had a bit of trouble getting the garden started this year because it was wet in the spring (not as bad as last year). I finally did get it in, though, and my philosophy has changed considerably since I first started gardening living alone.
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