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Growing up in rural SC the only vegs came from the garden.
Sep 2, 2020, 9:12 PM
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My dad had a 5 acre garden and guess who had to keep it clean, me and my 2 brothers. The worse part was being barefoot and hoeing out the 5 acre garden on that scorching soil. We would hoe out a place to put our feet then hoe out the garden.
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Re: Growing up in rural SC the only vegs came from the garden.
Sep 2, 2020, 9:29 PM
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Sounds like a lot of hoe-in around.
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Re: Growing up in rural SC the only vegs came from the garden.
Sep 2, 2020, 9:34 PM
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I think I would have wore a pair of shoes, or tore up a croker sack and tied it around my feet. A 5 acre garden would have fed a 20 kid family, and had some for the aunts and uncles and cousins, and a veggie stand out by the road of a large family. When I was able to have a garden, my wife and I would grow a 50ft by 100ft garden, and we would put enough veggies in the freezer that last until the garden came in the next summer, plus we would use half the garden space to grow winter veggies also like collards, turnips, rutabegorz!!! Like I said, a 5 acre garden was a Huuuuge garden!!!!
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Re: Growing up in rural SC the only vegs came from the garden.
Sep 2, 2020, 10:12 PM
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We sold vegetables canned then when we got a freezer filled it up but green beans are better canned not frozen. We would go door to door selling watermelons in town.
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Re: Growing up in rural SC the only vegs came from the garden.
Sep 2, 2020, 10:21 PM
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My mother would can close to 100 quarts of green beans every year along with canned tomatoes, pickles and tons of frozen peas & other stuff.. And besides the garden, we would pick blackberries. wild plums, and muscadines for jelly. Also had apple jelly, apple butter, and pear preserves -my favorite. Hated fig preserves but loved the rest. Didn't even notice the hot ground on bare feet after a couple of weeks - never wore shoes all summer.
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Re: Growing up in rural SC the only vegs came from the garden.
Sep 3, 2020, 10:51 AM
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Yup, love them jared tomatoes!!!
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Re: Growing up in rural SC the only vegs came from the garden.
Sep 3, 2020, 11:17 AM
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Ya, took your shoes off when school ended and then went barefoot but not to church. Pear preserves are the best. I did not like the fig preserves either.
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Re: Growing up in rural SC the only vegs came from the garden.
Sep 2, 2020, 10:15 PM
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He's right with the 5 acres. You have to plant enough so the critters will leave some for you.
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Re: Growing up in rural SC the only vegs came from the garden.
Sep 2, 2020, 10:29 PM
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Well back then not many deer were up here in the upstate. Just in a few places. They restocked them up here in the 1950s. The Government paid farmers not to grow cotton and most planted pine trees.
The trees gave the deer a habitat and they took off. You can blame the Government on all the deer now. You can thank them when you hit one with your car.
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Re: Growing up in rural SC the only vegs came from the garden.
Sep 3, 2020, 7:17 AM
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I'm 62 and there were no deer to bother the garden or crops back then. I was probably 12 or so before I ever saw a whitetail and it took quite a few years before they were ever a significant threat to gardens and crops. Now you can't keep them off my farm. Soybeans don't have a prayer once they are in the ground.
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Re: Growing up in rural SC the only vegs came from the garden.
Sep 3, 2020, 10:05 AM
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I have killed a many deer out of soybean fields.
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Re: Growing up in rural SC the only vegs came from the garden.
Sep 3, 2020, 6:46 AM
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Yep, I remember the summer garden and those fresh vegetables. Fondest memory in grammar school
was picking a ripe tomato, going to the front porch, sitting in one of the rockers and eating
my tomato with salt and a piece of sliced white bread.
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Re: Growing up in rural SC the only vegs came from the garden.
Sep 3, 2020, 11:04 AM
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Nothing like a mater sandwich with Dukes mayo. I still do 6 tomato plants in 5 gallon buckets every season, and me and the wife will eat them in BLTs, mater sandwiches, or just slice tomatoes until they are gone. Nothing like a SC grown tomato!!!
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Re: Growing up in rural SC the only vegs came from the garden.
Sep 7, 2020, 12:19 AM
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I like stewed tomatoes best. My wife says never refrigerate tomatoes it will change their taste.
She also says never snap your green beans then was wash them because you wash off all the natural sugars so wash before you snap them.
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Five acres? That ain't no garden, that's a full blown field!
Sep 3, 2020, 11:09 AM
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Way bigger than I would ever want to look after, for shore!
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Re: Five acres? That ain't no garden, that's a full blown field!
Sep 3, 2020, 11:19 AM
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That was what the kids were for but mom and dad did help pick the garden. He would drive us to town to sell the produce.
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Re: Five acres? That ain't no garden, that's a full blown field!
Sep 3, 2020, 11:27 AM
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my father in-law produced more per plant in his one acre garden but he worked it himself. He just did not have room to grow all different stuff like we did.
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