Anybody Garden out there?

[Keith_Hixson]

Just came in from the garden. I always grow a few vegetables every year. Nothing tastes better than fresh vegetables. Fresh sweet corn (Chris doesn't like fresh roasting ears), tomatoes, peas, potatioes, squash, cucumbers, green beans, broccolie, caulflower, cabbage, carrots, beats, etc. Just enough for Susan and myself and she always cans the string beans for the kids because "that in store stuff don't taste good." I think its theropy and keeps me in touch with my roots. Grew up on a farm way out in the sticks (Umapine, Oregon - go find that one a map). 90% of all the food we ate came off the farm or from hunting in the fall. We put Beef, Chicken, Pork, and game meat. Had our own milking cows (we had a small dairy heard of about 30 - 35 cows). On the farm our main crops were hay, sugar beets, wheat, peas and corn. But we always had a big garden - about an acre I'd guess. Grew almost everything. Made our own sour kraut, so much better than that store stuff. Makes me think I'm back on the farm again.

Keith