Salt marsh and sweet potatoes

摘要

THEY had always grown red peas, so Cornelia Bailey thought nothing of it. She and her husband dropped the seed in the spring, Frank hoeing and she following. They planted on a growing moon, not a wasting one, and when the tide was coming in; if a pregnant woman could do the sowing, so much the better. They waited, too, until the pecan trees put out their blossom. It was safe then to plant what you liked. Nothing could fool the pecans.