It is an organic garden. We grow our vegetables the old-fashioned way, without chemicals. Compost comes back to enrich the soil, we use as much natural defenses as possible against maurading bugs (including Carol's program of picking beetles by hand. A tradition that my grandmother would recognize)
And it would appear that it is planted the old-fashioned way as well. Brian put the corn in yesterday. Potatoes are in already.
The corn planter is an incredible device, and one we have never seen anywhere outside a museum. It works a treat. You load the handle with the seed. Step the planter into the ground, and as you walk forward, rotating the handle forward, it presses a seed into the ground. As it is lifted with the next step, it automatically loads more seeds. You plant at every step, without having to bend down, without having to burn fuel (other than calories!)
Smart, those old pioneers...
And it would appear that it is planted the old-fashioned way as well. Brian put the corn in yesterday. Potatoes are in already.
Oh my gosh, at first glance I thought I was looking at a couple of old pictures of Paul! The third one . . . Brian, without question.
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