Keep plenty of vegetable food for fall gardensĪ garden is only as healthy as the products you use to feed the vegetables and enhance the soil with organic material. We see a bonus of extra color at sundown with a sunset of the blazing hues of red, yellow, purple, orange and royal blue glowing on the western horizon and signaling that the season of autumn is only weeks away. Days are still getting shorter by a minute each evening. There is also a slow down in the harvest of summer vegetables. September brings a nip in the night air and a hint of color in the dogwoods and maples. Best of all, you can prolong the harvest in cold weather by applying a layer of crushed leaves between the rows for warmth and protection from cold temperatures and frost as well as snow. You can plant onion sets, cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, collards, mixed greens, curly mustard, turnips, Siberian curly kale, spinach and lettuce. The inventory of cool weather vegetables for autumn garden plots is remarkable. The temperatures are comfortable, the humidity is lower, there are fewer weeds and insects, and the soil is more workable. Gardening in autumn is comfortable, fun, and easier Water the turnips everyday with the water wand in shower mode when no rain or showers fall. The garden soil of September is still warm so cool the soil after sowing the turnips to promote their growth. After all, they are a root crop and require quite a long growing season to produce a harvest. Sometimes I start analyzing the situation, I start looking at the picture from all types of angles, and I start thinking, Why me? Why am I so weak? I just need to move forward.As we move into September, it’s time to sow a row or bed of purple top turnips so they will have plenty of time to develop large turnips. I think, If I had only listened to my grandmother and stayed out of trouble, I wouldn't have gotten into this. Tougher still is the struggle to move past the shame and guilt. And the nightmares of being raped persist. I'm always very aware of my surroundings. I spend my days working as a youth counselor and hope to start a nonprofit organization. I'm getting counseling and the medical attention I need. I was released to a halfway house in December and now live in my own apartment as I try to move my life forward. And for the first time since my ordeal began eighteen months earlier, I was put in safekeeping. They flew to the prison and contacted the prison director. I was suicidal.Īt last, I wrote the ACLU and told them I wanted to kill myself. Eventually I couldn't face the constant humiliation anymore. They told me to "fight or fuck." The rape continued. They told me that because I was a homosexual, it didn't matter. Each time I was met with deaf ears and laughter. I pleaded with the guards, the warden, and the classification committee time and again for safekeeping. At the next building it was the Akin Soldiers.
Eventually I was moved to another building. The going rate was five or ten dollars in commissary a fuck.
They did it in cells, in the shower, on the stairs. They made me perform sex with dozens of other inmates - white gangs, Mexican gangs, black gangs.
When I was finally transferred to a different cell block, I was told by Cliff Brown that he and his gang had "bought" me. Eventually he demanded that I have sex with his friends, who took to calling me "Coco." When a different sex slave was badly beaten for refusing sex, he said the same thing would happen to me if I didn't comply. Then he would force me to clean his cell, make his bed, or cook food for him. Ramos would rape me once, twice, sometimes three times a day. And other inmates didn't dare touch me without clearing it first with my owner. The gangs trade amongst themselves to determine who is going to be with whom. What most people don't understand is that rape in prison isn't like it is on the outside. Thus began my life as a prison sex slave. He told me I had two choices: I could submit, or I could die. Soon after coming to Allred prison in Texas, Bret Ramos claimed me as his own. By Roderick Johnson, 35, as told to Tyler Cabot
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