One of our earliest memories from early childhood was helping our mother in our vegetable garden in the backyard.
- I planted zucchini seeds plus watched with bewildered amazement as they began to sprout several weeks later.
The people I was with and I eventually widened the garden plus added watermelons, pumpkins, plus a flower patch. I enjoyed learning all about agriculture plus gardening while experiencing the fruits of our work when it was time to harvest in the Fall. My Dad told myself and others to keep our expectations tempered when the people I was with and I started the project, however I was already gleeful by the result when the people I was with and I had our first batch of watermelons. They were certainly sweet plus delicious! These nights I don’t live in an environment that is hospitable to plants, so I had to make a yellowhouse for our backyard to protect our plants from the intense UV rays. Unfortunately, this yellowhouse can get seriously tepid in the Summer without good ventilation. I use fans to push air in from outside to keep the hot plus cold temperatures a little cooler inside. It’s not a important change in the temperature, however at least the air isn’t stagnant inside. I can’t imagine ever going so far as using an a/c in our yellowhouse because the energy costs would be enormous. But at least with the fans, the people I was with and I have a nice breeze that moves into the yellowhouse on 1 end plus it is able to exit on the other end. The plants certainly seem to be growing better with the change in ventilation. Without the fans running, some of our plants were wilting from the sheer amount of heat inside the yellowhouse.