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Delawareans fight inflation with home gardens
NEWARK, Del. -
Delawareans are finding
that a home vegetable
garden can be a welcome
buffer against today’s rising
food costs. Though it would
be bard to get a handle on the
number of gardens planted
around the state this Sum
mer, there’s no doubt that
growing one’s own produce
has become a very popular
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Dr. Willie G. Adams,
Extension-garden and home
improvement agent working
out of Delaware State
College, has been sharing his
expertise with about 25 home
gardeners in the Dover area
this Summer in a special
program sponsored by the
Delaware Cooperative
Extension Service. He also
lends a hand with a number
of community-type gardens
and feels most of these food
growing efforts have been
quite successful.
His clients include retired
couples trying to manage on
a fixed income, as well as
suburban families who’ve
discovered that a home
vegetable plot can be a
relaxing hobby as well as a
way to cut down on trips to
the grocery store. Besides
the fresh fruits and
vegetables they enjoy over
the growing season, many of
these enterprising people
will also be eating their fill of
canned or frozen home
grown produce this Winter.
Belasco (“Jack”) Bossard
is probably typical of many
of today’s suburban
vegetable gardeners. He
lives in one of the com
fortable developments that
have sprung up, recently
around Dover. Bossard, a
career counselor for the
Capital School District, says
it all started a few years ago
when his wife suggested they
grow some tomatoes in a
small strip of vacant land at
the back of their lawn.
Every year the strip gets
wider as the family tackles a
greater variety of crops.
This summer was their
biggest effort yet, with
onions, cabbage, lettuce,
snap beans, limas, squash,
cukes, peas, sweet peppers,
collards, mustard, sweet and
white potatoes, okra, sweet
corn, melons, radishes and
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of course—tomatoes.
Bossard’s 12-and 16-year-old
sons are in charge of weed
control. He shares a
rototiller with a friend for
turning the ground over at
the beginning of the growing
season.
To find out what and how
to plant, since he’d never
done any gardening like this
before, Bossard consulted
with Adams. He also began
exchanging ideas with a
neighbor Who has had some
experience at growing
vegetables. And he started
reading up on the subject.
Like many other begin
ners, he learned the hard
way not to overplant, and
sticks to those vegetables the
family likes to eat. He’s
found out, too, that giving
the excess away isn’t always
as easy as you might think.
“People can be pretty
choosy-even about hand
outs,” he notes wryly.
With a freezer full of
homegrown food, Bossard
says the family has gotten
far more from their garden
than they ever dreamed they
would. “I figure we’ve had a
return on our investment
four, five or even six times
over,” he says.
If you’re retired, a
productive vegetable garden
can be of particular value in
combating rising food costs;
as many folks have
discovered. A large, well
managed plot can yield
enough to drastically reduce
the number of trips you have
to make to the grocery store
over the year-especially if
you preserve what you can’t
eat fresh.
Mr. and Mrs. James
Thomas have been growing
and preserving their own
vegetables for the past 50
years, so retirement means
they have more time to care
for their half-acre plot just
north of Dover. There they
“fight the battle of weeds
anji bugs” side by side-with
the help of- an old In
ternational Harvester Super-
A Farmall. During the
growing season, you’re
likely to find James Thomas
out cultivating part of the
plot with this in the early
morning, while his wife Lulu
is inside fixing breakfast. At
harvesttime, they work
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together to can the abundant
yields.
Their flourishing garden
boasts a remarkable
assortment of fmt and
vegetables, including sweet
com, yellow squash, zuc
chini, vegetable soybeans,
lima beans, onions,' okra,
tomatoeSj two kinds of peas,
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verting the large vacant lot
next door into a successful
community garden that
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and half of the neighborhood.
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yielded a succession of crops
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