Life Began in a Garden

Well, here's to the girls who find glamour in the garden, and not in the Mall. I love to play in fresh dirt, plant seeds, weed the plants, pray for rain, and reap the harvest. Growing up on a cotton and soybean farm, the best time of the year was October. All the garden vegetables canned, orchard apples canned into applesauce and apple pie filling, blackberry and muscadine jelly made, and money in the bank from the September and October crop harvest. I can still smell and taste the cracklings Grandma cooked outside in that big black cauldron as she rendered the lard from the fall butchered hogs. In the Ozarks, gardening season runs for 9 months of the year....from February to October. Our turnips and pumpkins will finish up our gardening season in just a few weeks. I read a quote the other day from Garden Therapy that I have adopted. "Play in the dirt because life is too short to always have clean fingernails."