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SR6AB page 13 P: Uh huh. R: Watermelons, you want a lot of vines, P: Like squash and.... R: Anything you want a good big bunch or _ or anything, you know, that'll make a big vine, the moon, go under the moon on the P: Uh huh. R: better if it's got a big vine to support them, you know. P: Uh huh. R: But something like peas, you don't want, you need the peas not the vine. P: Vine. R: Yeah. P: Exactly. R: If you was going to plant them for hay that'd be a different thing, if you going to farm, cut the hay and bale it P: Well, when you were young, did your daddy also go by the signs or did he just go by the moon? R: For the moon, mostly the moon, you know. P: But a little bit by they signs. R: A little by the signs was, of course the moon and signs, they work pretty well together, they well together in the same order, but sometime maybe this year, the signs won't be in the same place when the moon's full or new moon or what not, they'll be in a different.... They don't vary too much, but a lot of, most every year, they'll be in a different place. P: So when you were little, what kind of crops did your daddy raise? R: Corn and peanuts and cotton, rice, had that old rice, beans, people keep _rice, you know, harvest that rice, make a barrel of rice or two, put it away. P: Rice flour or....