With unbridled enthusiasm I cleared a plot of ground, tilled it and made some nice furrows for planting. We wanted a variety of food so I plant a row or two of carrots, beans, peas potatoes, corn, onions, radishes and several other plants. Oh, and I also planted a row of lettuce. Surveying the nice neat rows with satisfaction I congratulated myself on a job well done. A little water and weeding was all that was required now. Who said this was hard? My mouth positively watered in anticipation.

And grow the garden did. Nice green shoots soon appeared. We did, however, notice a few glitches but all in all things went relatively smoothly until we began harvesting the results.

It started with the corn. The stocks were, at best, about three feet high. Hardly up to an elephant’s eye but there were plenty of ears on the corn stocks. A good thing too because when we shucked the ears the corn seemed deficient. We didn’t know it but planting corn in rows was not such a good idea. Apparently only the insides of the rows got pollinated. Thus all the corn ears only had one or two rows of nice juicy kernels (when we were lucky). The rest of the ear was nothing more than a blank cob. Do you know how many ears like this it takes to make a meal? Quite a few I can tell you.

The carrots were no better. A large garden carrot for us was about an inch and a half long. The onions, well they fared even worse. We won’t talk about them. Things were not going so well but they were about to get better.

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