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Hand-picking, newspaper and Chlorox I am 83 years old, and I enjoy working in my garden. I use a hoe and a push plow. When I was a child I always helped my mother with her garden. In 1936 and 1937 my mother had some nice collards. I would help her pick the bugs off her collards each day, and we would kill them by hand. She didn’t have money to buy poison. She had collards that made a head like cabbage. Her garden was always free of weeds. We used a hoe, and in the spring my dad would plow the garden plot up with the mule. We had a fence around it to keep the chickens out, as they could be pests. Now I can afford to buy poison for my garden. In the fall, I put several layers of old wet newspapers on the area where I will plant my garden the next year. The weeds do not come up through them and later they rot and become fertilizer. I spray poison oak with Clorox. I inherited a love of gardening from my mother, and I also learned to be frugal and to use what I have. Monnie Sullivan |
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