It sure is good crop-growing weather. Getting the first cutting of hay done has been tough in a lot of areas. The summer heat and recent rains also HAVE helped gardens and produce farms, my garden included!

Gardens and homegrown produce remind me of my childhood. My mom would always plant a big garden — tomatoes, potatoes, green beans, peas, lima beans, beets, cucumbers, cabbage, melons and more. I hated pulling weeds, but I sure enjoyed eating the fresh produce (except the lima beans). Mom was a master of canning and freezing, so the bounty of the garden lasted long past the killing frost of the fall.

My dad would plant sweet corn on the edge of one of the fields of corn he planted for the cows. There was plenty of sweet corn, but with only one planting, the sweet corn season didn’t las

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