84—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 25,1984 Onbei a farm -And o n&z&r Joyce B Corn, tomatoes, and can taloupes. That’s lunch. Dinner is maybe tomatoes, com and cantaloupe. Breakfast includes cantaloupe. (One family member likes to frill it up with a scoop of vanilla ice cream in the seed cavity.) Sounds like a rut, doesn’t it? Not really. Fact is, we think August eating is just about tops. It makes weeds, gnats, snails, smut, hornworms, cornworms and cucumber beetles worth fighting. (Heavy on the weeds and gnats this season.) “Could you use some corn or tomatoes?” neighbors hopefully ask each other, as every gardner overplanted to compensate for last summer’s shortages. “I want com every day,” pleaded the youngest family member after polishing off a half dozen roasting ears at the first cob- (Continued from Page B 2) care units were started. At that time a private duty nurse was hired when a patient needed ad ditional attention. At one time the Paines had over 300 head of hogs on their farm. They raised purebred hogs from 1961 to 1972. At the same time they were running a greenhouse. As the greenhouse business grew they couldn’t do both well, so they sold the hogs. Currently the Paines run both a greenhouse business and sell vegetables. A self-service vegetable stand is used to market their produce. The idea of a self service stand evolved out of necessity when Phyllis had her second child. How does she keep up with everything? “Every year I think I won’t go through another year like this. Then I see the freshly plowed soil and I can’t wait to get my WE NEED MILK! lin4iaai Come Grow With Us 860 Allentown Rd. IlsitaltlMC Lansdale, Pa. 19446 (215)855-0210 Membership Benefits Include: 20* - Quality Bonus 2* - Premium 70 % - Base for New Order 4 Members Patronage Dividends Blue Cross/Blue Shield Plans A GUARANTEED MARKET !: i: FOR ALL YOUR MILK :j Call Membership Manager Max O. Sumser At home - Pa. (717) 334-8900 or Call the Office Toll Free from Pa. from Md., Del., N.Y., NJ. (800) 322-9254 (800) 523-9336 feast of the season., We’ve obliged almost 100 per cent, interspersing roasting ear meals with chicken corn soup. The latter is due to the ultimate of fering of their lives by some of the more vocal of last year’s rooster crop. To compensate for her short comings last year, Mother Nature seems to have hung her sprinkling can over the immediate area on a long-term basis, sending us almost record rainfall by inches. While the hay crop languished and sometimes rotted in the rows, just about everything else has stretched upwards, reaching toward the heavens in gratitude. And, several tiroes, as vines curled around my ankles, this jungle which grew by inches seemed almost a dream. “Let plenty of room between the rows,” I had requested as the Phyllis Paine hands into it,” says Phyllis. “I remember when I was in 4-H and someone told Tom King to make sure I married a farmer.” It sounds like that was good advice. Phyllis laughs easily, smiles, and seems satisfied as she discusses her life. As the mother of three children and a farm wife, Phyllis Paine has experienced her share of rough times, too. The family lost a bam to fire in the past and Phyllis recalls a time last fall when “everything seemed to be going wrong.” A quote which Phyllis has paraphrased serves as the thought which carries her through the rough times and lifts her above the hassles to enjoy life. “God doesn’t send you into the forest with a penknife to cut a tree. He equips you and provides the power for the task he has given you.” family pitched in to help lay plastic mulch for the favorite crops. So they did, leaving broad expanses between rows of melons and tomatoes, cucumbers and squash. Each crop saw the empty spaces as a challenge, and set off with Olympian grit to cover the gaps, weaving a tangled mesh of vines shaded with thick leaf covers. Indeed, many have already split and spoiled under the canopy and clouds, and there are still more than enough cantaloups, Casaba melons, honey dews and water melons. While the scalloped squash did yield to the cucumber beetles, that only cheered on the neighboring zucchini to greater zealous output. Butternut squash, planted in stead of rot-prone pumpkins, crawled out of their broad patch, poked through the cosmos, bet-' ween the cabbages and snuggled up to the onions. 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