BELOW THE MASON©DIXON LINE
Are you from Dixie?
I said from Dixie
where the fields of OKRA beckon to the
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THIS OKRA AM SWEET
Between the Tropic and the North Temperate Zone are the Mid©Latitudes with mild winters, warm springs, and hot summers. North temperate spring crops will bolt, apples and pears will not be firm and sweet. Southern crops are limited to cotton (which can't be et), hominy for grits, okra, watermelons, and peaches. It takes a bit of Southern pride and cultural conditioning to really get your teeth into the okra and the grits. A little further South in the Tropics, the absence of spring eliminates these transitional crops. And, heretofore on the coastal tropical desert in the presence of salt laden air nothing grows except the inedible sea grape. Á Once again ColdAg comes to the rescue. Kevin Sue our organic Seedlings transplanted on a desert floor were bathed with intense, searing, solar heat but their roots were kept cold, very cold, by the flow of deep ocean water. Each morning and each evening a gentle spray of freshwater provided both sunscreen and balm. Soon a classic stalk and flower appeared. Human intervention now cut off the supply of cold and wet. The desert drought and noonday sun told the plant it was soon to die. No longer did the sunflower "give to her God when she set, the same look that she gave when he rose". Photosynthesis forgot, the plant prepared to go to seed. Then the cold water was reintroduced. and like a miracle, flowers adorned the full stalk. Here was an array not often seen in nature. Here was an arrangement that, heretofore, could only be depicted in the mind's eye of a great artist.
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