Ida’s
Notebook
Ida Risser
This year 1 actually got my
sweet peas planted on St. Patrick’s
Day and now I’m looking forward
to their brilliant color range.
Usually it is a week or more later
before I get them planted. And, by
the time that you read this, I ex
pect to have half of my garden
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planted with sugar peas and hull
peas. All of the seed is saved from
year to year as my particular
kinds can’t be bought in a store.
When I prepared the garden for
the rototiller, I found several
vegetables waiting to be har
vested. Rather than turn under the
parsnips and salsify, I dug them up
and made a meal of them. There
were several small cabbage heads
to be cut that had sprouted out
after the main one was cut off last
year. I also cut off several Chinese
cabbage plants that were too small
last fall and cooked them.
There is a small patch of
evergreen onions that stay out all
winter and give me green scallions
early in the spring. They have been
fighting for existence in a grassy
plot for several years but seem to
be holding their own. All of this
makes me feel as though I’m
harvesting before I even plant
anything.
Our 15 noisy geese think it is
spring too as they have started to
lay eggs. However, I’m not anxious
for them to hatch very many and
so we gather and eat them. Day
and night these large, white
feathered creatures quarrel and
fuss.
A few months ago, something or
someone scared them away and
they swam a mile downstream and
joined two other geese on another
farm. Those two had often visited
our gaggle of geese but our had
never left our meadow before.
Then one day they swam home
through swift and muddy water
and we spent weeks feeding them
com in the meadow and gradually
coaxing them up to the buildings
again. Now they make several
trips a day to our com crib behind
the bam.
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Holland 4-H Baby Beef Club met
recently at the home of club
member Heather Yoder, The
president called the meeting to
order and reports on the members’
steers were given.
The program of the meeting was
a videotape on how dogs are
trained for security at the jail in
Lancaster. The meeting was ad
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The next meeting will be held at
the home of club member Krista
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parison, Mr. Lowe, adds, local
nightcrawlers only produce two or
three eggs per season.
Regarding the reactions of
friends to their wriggly endeavor,
Michael recalls that at first many
of his friends “thought I was nuts.”
But when they saw the article in
the local paper, he says, his
prestige factor went up.
“Most everybody couldn’t
believe how much we spent to get
into it,” Matt exclaims.
The best part of the operation,
Michael thinks, is, “Using the
worms.” Since he is an avid
hunting and fishing enthusiast,
Mrs. Lowe says, Michael could
literally be his own best customer.
According to Mr. Lowe, the
M&M Worm Farm, with one ex
ception near Pittsburgh, is the only
one of its kind in Pennsylvania. He
says most worms in the area are
imported from Canada. At any
rate, many area fishermen will be
reaping a harvest because two
young boys weren’t afraid to open
a can of worms.