[NAFEX] was FEDCO now farm&garden

Donna &/or Kieran holycow at cookeville.com
Wed Jan 2 22:14:55 EST 2008


    The kind of garden that farmers make has been the subject of some 
amusement among my friends in the past.  Farmers  use their tractor to plow 
and plant it, come back and cultivate later using the tractor, and their 
wife does lots of canning.  The spacing would be the same for every row, I 
can remember seeing  tiny rows of onions. spaced 42" inches from the next 
row, same as the tomatoes.  Alas, here in Tennessee gardening is a 
disappearing art.  Locals are now to the point, when grandma dies, there 
will be no more home grown veggies.
     I can't figure out people's reasoning.  What we grow, if you could buy 
it retail, would be very pricy.   Apart from the farmer's market, you simply 
cannot buy things fresh picked, plus I never have to worry about sprays on 
what we produce.  And the quality.... over the years we have become so 
spoiled that we didn't realize how good our tomatoes really are.  I've been 
saving seed from those I liked best of the 100 or more varieties I've tried 
through SSE.  This year I ordered some seed that some small company offered 
and grew 7 plants of that variety.  They didn't even taste like tomatoes, 
and when cooked for canning, they smelled really weird.  I had 14 other 
varieties to choose from, so I wound up leaving them for the chickens to 
eat.   Now and then, even in SSE I'd get some variety that was completely 
tasteless.                 Donna 




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