06-29-2018, 12:59 PM
(06-28-2018, 11:32 PM)grampahol Wrote: For the first time in a few years we've gotten some really good honey dew melons. Cantaloupes have been a bit tasteless.
I prefer hone dew to cantaloupe just like I prefer the more tart apples over the sweeter ones. But everyone else in my family likes cantaloupes so that is what I grow.
(06-28-2018, 11:32 PM)grampahol Wrote: I remember years ago hitch hiking and getting dropped off in the middle of the peach season so I got work picking them.. I don't know how many of you have ever worked as a picker, but it's hard work . I still enjoyed the time with different migrants around the country picking produce..Everyone ought to take at least one season to work picking crops...It'll give you an appreciation for just how tough it is for the people who keep our dinner tables full
My father left his home in backwoods Kentucky when he was 14 years old (1942) to harvest potatoes in Idaho. Before that he had never been more than 20 miles from his home, but he never lived at home after that.
Back in the 1950's and 60's everyone was leaving the farms in the south and getting jobs in factories up north. They could usually find a job within days. I had an uncle who left home with nothing and lived in an apple orchard outside Detroit for a couple of weeks before he found a job and got paid. Said he got so sick of apples that he didn't eat another one for years.
