Ida’s
Notebook
Ida Hisser
The calendar tells me it is time
to prepare for planting the garden.
I’m hoping the weather agrees.
Last week I took inventory of
my big can of seeds. We’re told not
to use old seed but I do and have
not had any big trouble. The other
year my husband bought five
pound of hull pea seed for me. It
will take a few seasons to empty
the big bag of pea seed.
Often I will gather seed from
dill, parsnips or chard and finally
ten years later throw them away as
they do reseed themselves. In the
bottom of my seed cache, I have
persimmon and pawpaw seeds
from two great aunts. They are
stored in tiny cloth bags with
drawstrings that they sewed by
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There are very few things that I
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Speaking of beans, I did have a
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I haven’t bothered to start many
plants indoors as they usually pro
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Several commodity groups are
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