Vegetables

The first few years at Lansdale, we grew vegetables as a cash crop to bring in some more income. This was only partly successful as we were too far away from any good market and the prices were very low. At one time I had to sell about a dozen five-eighth bushel baskets of tomatoes for fifteen cents each after paying ten cents each for the empty baskets. Of course this was an unusual incident and it was during the depression when money was scarce and vegetables were plentiful.
We had a Dodge screen body truck at that time and I sometimes would take a load of vegetables into Dock Street in Philadelphia. On that street there were several wholesale dealers who sold them at auction very early the next morning.
One year we planted a whole acre to carrots, and they grew so well that we had more carrots than we could handle. After we sold all we could in the fall and the weather got cold we dug up the rest and piled them right in the field. We then covered them with burlap and corn fodder and finally about twelve inches of soil. They kept very well and in the spring, I sold them by the basket to the A and P in Lansdale.