Reznjun

the amazing randy turning the ground over

i was  in my garden pulling last years cornstalks out when randy pulled up with a tribal tractor. he works on some traditional gardening program or something. he plowed my garden for me. the tractor and the attachment on it went deep in turning the ground over. he even broke some new ground for me, since my garden has been in the same spot for the past few years. i like it there cuz it has good drainage.

he will come back later to till the large clumps of dirt up. that will make the garden really good this year.  it saves wear and tear on my tiller. i have gardened for the past 24 years and have gone thru a number of tillers. basically the ground here is hard pan and it really does a job on them. i usually plant a big garden, about 80 feet by 90 feet.  i have added alot to the soil over the years, that breaks it down.

randy said he did about 8 gardens so far, and had more to do. that surprised me. i didnt think there were more than a handful of people that raised a garden out here. glad to hear more are getting into it. i remember a story an old lady told me. she said that our corn was our life. when we stopped growing it, then we would have no more life. and we weren’t to sell it, cuz that would be like selling our life. some do tho. maybe they just dont know better.

i offered randy something to eat but he had to get going. i told him i really appreciated  he did that for me. i am always grateful. i never asked for help, but i will take it if it is offered. i just quit asking the tribe for anything. i usually just got some lame ass excuse. i didnt ask this time and got help. cant beat that. kinda renewed my faith in some tribal programs. i know we do have some of our people in there that actually want to help people. not everyone is a heartless bureaucrat. we got some damn good people working for us. my hat is off to them. wish we had more of them.

now it is time for me to think of planting. i have already bought some seed. radishes, lettuce, onions and carrots. just cool weather things. i will head to town sometime to get cabbages and seed potatoes. i was getting ready to plant potatoes. they say st patricks day or good friday. i am neither irish nor catholic so i split the difference. in gardening you need all the mojo you can get.

i am glad i have some new ground broke. that is always some rich soil. whatever is planted there comes out good. one year when i broke new ground i ended up with a gallon of corn dried for each row. zucchini were plentiful. couldnt beat the tomatoes. everything produced well. looking forward to this years crop already.