| My first garden, in the backyard of a house near Pacific Grove beach
I shared with, among others, Kent
Crawford, Steve Nelson, and Pat Torrey.
The soil was an incredibly rich loam called "Indian shellmound" that needed no preparation. We ate well from this little backyard farm. I'm having a staredown here with Kent's black cat "Lucifer". (Photo by Kent Crawford) |
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My parents, Gordon
& Eleanor Newell, by the "squash patch"
of my largest and most productive garden.
On LaRancheria Rd. in Carmel Val- ley, the hard adobe soil here needed additional organic matter, nitrogen (courtesy of our chickens), rototilling, and plenty of hard work. |
| Me in my cornfield. The corn even- tually grew several feet
taller than this (I'm 6 ft.) -- and the yield was good, too.
The tall plant left of center is a sun- flower. The idea was that birds would love the seeds so much they'd ignore the rest of the garden. (I don't re- member if this plan worked.) |
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| Planting time! The LaRancheria garden site seen from the roof
of the house. Note "squash patch" mounds on the left and furrowed
cornfield in center. Once I got it going, this garden produced abundantly
year around.
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