S 4- Lancaster Firming. Saturday, March 13. 1976
Gardening renews
heritage
For anyone who is a
garden enthualaat, (he
bicentennial Is an op
portunity to renew,
strengthen and enrich our
gardening heritage. We have
many fine gardens that have
come down to us from the
past These were In general
the gardens of the well-to-do
who had the means and the
leisure time needed to
develop and care for them
At no lime In our history
has the Interest In gardening
• and the means to indulge it -
been available to so many
people as it is today Gar
dens planted now in the spirit
of the bicentennial can
enrich out lives, the lives of
our children and even our
children's children.
A bicentennial garden may
be anything that you want it
to be. It may be a garden of
the past, modified and
changed to Ot the needs of
our time. It may be a garden
of 1976 based around a patio,
a balcony or a rock garden.
You can also commemorate
the bicentennial by planting
a tree. This would be par
ticularly appropriate since a
tree lives for many years
and throughout its lifespan
will remind you of the oc-
RED ROSE FEED
& FARM SUPPLY
cation (or which it was
planted
If I were to select one
feature or early colonial
gardens which Is par
ticularly situated for today, I
would choose the kitchen
garden. This was a
utilitarian garden then,
providing food for the tabic
and a supply of herbs for the
numerous home remedies
used for minor ailments.
The kitchen garden was
usually laid out in a formal
geometric pattern, with
walks dividing the area into
beds for easy maintenance
and access It was located
close to the house for con
venience. It was enclosed by
a fence to keep out mean
dering livestock and also to
provide shelter for early and
tender plants.
A well laid out kitchen
garden is just as valuable
today as it was in colonial
times and it makes an at
tractive addition to the
landscape. Choose an area
which has full sun and good
drainage. Enclose it with
some kind of fence. This can
be as simple or elaborate as
you like, depending on the
general style of the
surrounding area.
Divide the garden Into
beds with walk*. These may
be some kind of brick or
stone, but they don't have to
be. The beds should be a
minimum of three feel wide
to n maximum of six feet,
length will depend on the
•lie of the garden. The beds
should be raised and
surrounded by on edging of
wood or brick. Mulching
them will greatly reduce
maintenance
Herbs, flowers and even preheat oven to 450 degree,
dwarf fruit trees can be F for young birds (l, ‘
planted in the outside beds. K rPCS for morc mature ones
The Inside bed or beds arc hc.ison and brush reads to
devoted to vegetables. poultry with butter and
Properly laid out, this kind of o^hc* - fat Place poultry on .1
garden Is an attractive nj ck in a roaster or heavs
addition to the landscape. It P-*n and cover tiglith
has a permanent framework Poulin is done when leg
that gives it year-round joints move casil> an -4 flesh
Interest. It Is truly a garden on legs is soft and pliable To
to be proud of, and one which brown uncover for the last
can yield a great deal of thirty minutes of cooking
pleasure over the years.
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Plan* for laying out a
■mall kitchen garden, ax
well as a fact sited on
growing herbs, arc available
by writing the Delaware
Cooperative Exlcmlon
Service. Mall Hoorn,
Agricultural Hall, Univer
sity of Delaware, Newark,
UE 19711
HraUlng Poulin
To braise whole poultn
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FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT
YOUR LOCAL COUNTY OFFICE.
Inspect
fields
Sustained crop yields arc a
primary goal of conservation
planning slates Karl
Hcllcrick. Soil Conservation
Service Fields that have
erosion or have excessive
water do not give top yields
Last month, as well as last
year, storms caused ex
tensive erosion and water
ponding problems for
Lebanon County landuscrs
Hellenck recommends
that landuscrs tour their
properties to see the
damages
Drainageways that have
become gullies need to have
sod reestablished. Sod
waterways with subsurface
drainage is one alternative
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for thin excess water
disposal problem.
Conservation planning
considers the goals and the
soil resources Hcllcrlck
stales Each landuser needs
to look around his properly
whether It be a lot,
center, or farm and see what
his conservation needs tire
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