![]() ![]() That meant breaking the sod, planting your little hoard of seeds, and carrying water to them in a bucket. Once you’d dug a well and built a home, the next step was to raise enough food to feed yourself and your family. If you were a settler moving west to claim a homestead, you likely brought along precious portions of vegetable seeds sewn into the hem of a dress or lining of a coat: turnips, corn, beans, squash, beet and carrot seed, perhaps tomato or melon seeds. ![]() In the days before supermarkets and farmers’ markets, the only way to supply your family with fresh produce was to raise it yourself. ![]() And that doesn’t count the work invested in digging beets and potatoes, picking beans and peas, and searching for the cucumbers that always hide under the vines, just out of reach.īut if you think gardening is tough today, imagine yourself back in the frontier West 150 years ago. More stoop labor required to check your plants for signs of disease and insect feeding, and to drag the hoses around. There’s a considerable amount of labor involved in preparing the seedbed and bending, stooping and kneeling to plant the seeds and seedlings. You and I both know that raising a vegetable garden isn’t a task for weaklings. ![]()
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