It started by necessity and ended in ignominy. In my defense I point out that we were student poor and had to get food somehow or abandon our dreams of a college education. Besides it wasn’t such a bad idea. It’s just the execution that was somewhat flawed.

Early in our married life my wife worked to enable me to attend school. By early I mean literally we were poor. Indeed had they had such statistics back then we would have scraped the bottom of the poverty barrel. We were always struggling to buy not just school supplies but such basic necessities as food and housing. Consequently we were ever on the lookout for ways to save money and one particularly enticing idea was to plant a garden.

I’m primarily a city boy and aside from one youthful feeble attempt at raising chickens (never, never, never again; do you know how shi–, er, dirty they are?) I had no experience in farming. Besides this was to be a garden not a farm. I mean how hard could it be? You just had to clear some ground, plant some seeds, water them and viola! you had food. It couldn’t be simpler and as an added benefit we’d get fresh wholesome healthy food while stretching our meager income.

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