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It's About Thyme
Aug 21, 2009
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Evenings in the Vegetable Patch
by Chris Winslow
I love vegetable gardening. I really, really do.
Few people can believe it, but when I drive home at the end of a day
from my nursery, I let out the three dogs, and as the sun goes down, I
head off to tend my vegetable patch for an hour or so.
I got this from my grandparents. They had dairy, pigs, chickens, eggs and
vegetables… the whole nine yards. They lived off the land, and memories
of visits to them are still crystal clear to me.
I remember seeing Granddad beneath the hot afternoon sun working a 2-
row plough on the back of a dusty red International Harvester tractor.
And I remember, in the gentle evening light, picking carrots and radishes
with my grandmother. And in late spring, we harvested potatoes with
big forks.
My dad Berry was a quartermaster officer in the army. He was wounded
first at Pearl Harbor, and then many years later in the Korean conflict. For
us kids, and my mother Aviline, home was all over the place. One year
New York, the next Maryland, then Japan. All this wandering didn’t allow
me much of a chance to have a decent garden.
From college at UT in Austin and onwards, it’s been a different story.
I have been able to dedicate myself to it full time, and I feel I can be
reasonably certain (as much as the weather will allow!) about what you
should grow, and when you should grow it.
To have your own garden brings a special quality to your life. This is the
lesson I learned from my grandparents. It’s good for the spirit, good for
the soul, good for the health of your family… and good for the
pocketbook too.
Happy Gardening Everyone!
(© ChrisWinslow 2009)
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EZ HERBS: our friend Ellen Zimmerman, the brilliant local herbalist, has
announced her new schedule of fall classes. Medical herbalism, medicinal
plant walk and tea time, and root harvesting and the spirit of herbalism
are just some of the classes offered. Click here for more details:
http://www.ezherbs.net/fall%202009%20classes.html
Cactus & Succulent Society Show and Sale, Sept 5, 6, 7 at Zilker Gardens. 