Re: Do you like to garden???

Posted by Greg1959 on June 27, 2015 at 23:47:47 from (69.176.46.42):

In Reply to: Do you like to garden??? posted by JD Seller on June 27, 2015 at 21:53:17:

JD Seller- I also felt very much like you. I HATED the garden! My parents got me up a day-break to work in the garden.

Dad ran the tiller between the rows and it was up to me to pull weeds and hoe everything else.

At that time I really despised the 'Garden'. Seems I was either hoeing, weeding or picking green beans. I would watch my Dad pack a bucket of water from the creek to ladle a couple of cups of water on each plant. Then, back to the creek he would go to get another bucket of water.. He would do this for a few hours each day.

I swore to myself that I would NEVER do what he did!

Then in my 30's, something just hit me...I built a green house, grew plants from seedlings and started producing. Dad, Mom and I canned a lot of produce, raised and butchered hogs, beef, chickens, turkey plus, keep bee hives. All the while keeping the garden going.

I learned a lot from my Mom and Dad. I have shelves stocked full of canned produce from over the years. Heck, some of it even dates to back to 1994! It's still good to eat.

Dad passed in 2002. At that time I inherited 2 pressure canners. One from my paternal grandparents and one from my maternal grandparents. I can still buy gaskets/rubber ring seals for those old pressure canners!

Since then, I have purchased two more pressure canners.

Now, to answer your question on what I think about it,,, Yes, it is a lot of work. Yes, it is cost effective to buy it versus your income..

But, to me, it is the nostalgia and pride in something that my parents, grand-parents did to feed their families and it just seems something that I want to carry on.

BTW, my offspring has no inkling of ever wanting to learn about this even though I have offered to teach this way of storing food.

Some from this site post gorgeous pics of their garden. My rows aren't straight and some weeds grow in the balk.

I think I do the "garden' to full-fill my parents wish to learn.

Mom and and Dad are passed but I will still keep raising and canning from the garden.

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