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just nappenea to run up into her okra and “I liked it so much I did it very year. I get a kick out of seeing ti»^ cucumbers hanging in the okra.”
Last Saturday the Rappahannock News visited the site of Carroll Racer’s garden, which is in Washington.
Racer had already planted his peas and onions a week before (on the previous Saturday), his raddishes, carrots, beets, mustard, and lettuce on Monday, and “two rows of potatoes on Friday.” He put in five or six more
rows of potatoes on Saturday, the day of this interview.
Racer said the types of potatoes he was planting ~ Red Pontiac and Rusty -- could go in earlier than most. Also, “mine is one of the earliest gardens in the county because it is on a slant - the rain drains naturally from it,” Racer said. He won’t plant anything more now until the end of March or the first of April when cabbages go in. Around the first of May he will plant com, cucumbers, string beans, and cantaloupes, “whenever the ground is ready.”
Racer started gardening at the age of five or six when he was old enough to help his mother and father in the family garden. “I love to garden. I’d really be lost without it," he said. “It provides food for family and friends.”
Racer also donates some of his harvest to local charities.
What is his formula for a good garden? It has nothing to do with moon signs.
“This is my sign,” he said, and he pointed to his warm, dry soil. “The ground is in good shape.”
Donald Cave, who lives in Harris Hollow, has planted a garden in Rappahannock for the past 35 years.
“I’ve just always gardened,” he said. “I like fooling around with it, and it gives me something to eat.
Here is what Cave will be eating if all goes well with his garden: potatoes,
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