Here's a cute story I found while breezing through old entries. This one from eight years ago. It fits with all the rain we've had recently and the time of year. I'll explain that I grew up in Norwood, Ohio residential neighborhood in a house with a decent sized yard bounded in the rear by neighbors fences on all sides. Huge walnut trees made half of the backyard a cool, shady retreat for me. Grass wouldn't grow there - just a ground cover.
5/30/2014
WHEN I WAS A KID
When I was a kid, I tried to grow corn in my backyard. This is what I did when I was about six years old.
On the right side of the yard, near our neighbor's fence and halfway back to another neighbors fence, I dug a trench about six feet long and six inches deep. (This was halfway back to where I had previously dug the huge foxhole.) I planted about a dozen seeds in a row right next to the trench. I'm not sure where I got the seeds.
My idea was that the trench would hold water and supply it to the plants. I thought that farmers put trenches between their rows of corn so that rain water would stay there and feed the plants for days after a rain. I guess I wasn't thinking too clearly back then. I'm sure I had no idea what fertilizer was.
Anyway, I filled the little trench with water every day that it didn't rain and, low and behold, the seeds germinated. I had little stalks of corn growing up right there in the city. I was a genius. I tended to them for a weeks on end and they grew to about one foot tall or less. One foot!! after all that work and not a sign of an ear of corn. I was devastated. I knew I would never became a farmer so I reverted to becoming a major league baseball player.
O.O
On the right side of the yard, near our neighbor's fence and halfway back to another neighbors fence, I dug a trench about six feet long and six inches deep. (This was halfway back to where I had previously dug the huge foxhole.) I planted about a dozen seeds in a row right next to the trench. I'm not sure where I got the seeds.
My idea was that the trench would hold water and supply it to the plants. I thought that farmers put trenches between their rows of corn so that rain water would stay there and feed the plants for days after a rain. I guess I wasn't thinking too clearly back then. I'm sure I had no idea what fertilizer was.
Anyway, I filled the little trench with water every day that it didn't rain and, low and behold, the seeds germinated. I had little stalks of corn growing up right there in the city. I was a genius. I tended to them for a weeks on end and they grew to about one foot tall or less. One foot!! after all that work and not a sign of an ear of corn. I was devastated. I knew I would never became a farmer so I reverted to becoming a major league baseball player.
O.O
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