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Garden In The Spring
by Grac« S. Carraway
My husband and I have been vege
table gardeners for a number of
years. Well, I guess you could say,
we started raising vegetables, in earn
est during World War II.
- While we wjereliving cm the base
at Camp Lejeune, vegetable garden
ing ' was one of our recreational ac
tivities. MIm Bonnie Sheffield, ol
1 Raleigh, who is now head of the
Woman’s divisioi at State Prison,
and who previously was North Caro
lina’s Recreational Director, was our
recreational director at that time.
I was plenty dumb about garden
ing, and the situation was embarrass
ing to me, coming, as I did, from a
rural community and having been a
small town girl al my life, especially
so, because there were Mg city gard
eners next to my plot who could do a
good job of gardening.
Miss Sheffield had a soil testing
kit, and most of us tested our soil to
determine what plants would grow
best and what fertilizers and plant
supplements we should use.
As inexperienced as I was, it didn't
take much observing for me to know
that the soil was right for growing
nut grass. My husband and I battled
with it all that *mmmer. We got on
our knees and pulled the grass out
nut and all. We put it carefully in
a basket and took it. down the road
several miles. A few days later when
we were approaching the plot we
noticed that it had an all-over green
look. We both said, “Oh, No!”—but
oh-yes! it was nut grass. We reacted
our demiting episode several times
that summer.
’ I bought a book, Vegetable Garden
ing, by Charles H. Nisstey, Extension
professor of vegetable gardening,
New Jersey Agricultural Experiment
Station, and would chop with one
hand and hold the book in my other
hand so I could read it. I have never
been able to accomplish anything
with directions unless I could apply
them at the same time that I was
reading them.
Our gardening project was worth
while. We didn’t harvest many vege
tables, but we found a plum tree, a
black walnut and a green apple tree
on the six mile journey from our
home to the plot. We cooked some
good pies, made with those green
apples. Our daughter was about ten
years old at the time, and we would
take her and a half dozen children on
our hikes to the garden. They found
the rabbit tobacoc in the adjacent
fields to our plots excellent for smok
ing purposes, so I found out several
years later. And also, we almost
trained a bird dog on our trips back
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and forth.
My husband and I are still garden
ing:. He has learned much since our
hut grass episode at Camp Lejeune.
Arid I am experienced in harvesting,
canning, freeling and preserving.
Every year I learn Something new
about gardening. Last year I found
out that it is possible to have spring
and fall eollards. My husband plant
ed some eollards early and I was sav
ing them until the frost struck them.
My mother always said eollards
weren’t fit to eat until the frost
struck them. The eollards had been
in full leaf for some time, but I
wouldn’t be tempted. I was going to
save them. One day I noticed that
some small green worms had moved
in and the eollards . looked like a
swarm of locusts had passed over. I
was complaining to a neighbor and
he said I should have eaten all those
Spring eollards long ago.
I was determined to have some of
those eollards, so I cut some of the
best and took them into the kitchen
for washing. My husband saw the
leaves in a pan in the sink and quick
ly volunteered to wash them. I found
out later that he didn’t trust me with
r
that wormy situation. I will admit
that I do not think it too repulsive to
eat a small little green cooked worm.
I hardly think a person would notice
a few cooked worms. They-are the
same color green and look like vege
table matter. • ,
But my husband held, a different
opinion. He went after those little
leaves and worms, like they were -his
worst enemy. Aftr about ten wash
ings, each leaf washed and scrubbed
-separately,"he finally gave me per-,
mission to cook those battered collard
leaves. They resembled a wet blanket
that had been hanging on a line in a
windstorm of several days duration.
At dinner time my husband came
into the kitchen, sniffed about and
asked what on earth smelled so bad.
I assured him it was the collards. He
replied that anything that smelled
that bad wasn’t fit to eat and was
about to take them outside to the gar
bage disposal. I wasn’t going to be
outdone at this point in the game, and
dared him, over my dead body to
touch the colards. I softened the
sting of my words by opening the
oven door-and letting the aroma of
peach cobbler drift up to his nose. He
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smiled and set down at the dining1
table. It pms a goad dinner, country
ham, collards, potato salad, sliced to
matoes, iced tea _ and peach cobbler.
And I was thinking that if diplomats
would terve collards instead of cock
tails there might be • better under
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