Before our move to Hall county we lived in Red Oak, GA for about 13 years. Nancy planted a couple of tomato plants by the south brick wall of our new house there. I don't know if it was the heat radiated by the bricks or the lime in the concrete of the fairly new slab of our family room, but those tomato plants produced a lot of tomatoes.
Later, Nancy and our neighbor were talking and the neighbor had some seeds left from planting her garden and they hoed up a small area of the back yard and planted a sort of "starter" garden for Nancy. The small garden produced an impressive amount vegetables. It also gave Nancy something to do since she only had five of our kids, four of her sisters kids, the house, and me to care for. Finally, a good use of some of her spare time.
Nancy's garden produced enough that she canned food for later in the winter. We would rent a tiller in the spring to till the garden and tend it with a hoe the rest of the season. As the garden grew in size, we bought a tiller of our own. The garden grew in size as long as we lived there.
We also would go to the Farmers Market and bring back produce in bulk and Nancy canned much of it. The garage floor and the family room floor were sometimes covered with veggies waiting their turn in the canning pot. I remember once we were at the farmers market on a Sunday and we had already bought quite a lot when we got a real "Deal" on two big boxes of tomatoes that were just about the peak of ripeness. I had to go to work the next day and Nancy canned it all. (Ya ever wonder why I answer Nancy with "Yes Mam"?)
I guess this was the start of our wanting to move to the country and looking back on it, I'm still glad that we did.
"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!"
Adolph Hitler, 1935
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