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Joyce B
January was just too early to
worry about it.
February would have been ide
al. But the string of snowy week
ends and continuing cold weather
just didn’t set the mood for getting
the job done. A couple of com
parative lists compiled while
snuggled in a sleeping bag on an
easy chair next to the woodstove
at the mountain cabin was as close
as it got.
And then the lists laid here, for
gotten.
It took a balmy day in early
March to jolt the attention. Spring
was a mere few days away and
not one seed catalog order had
gone into the mail.
True, a whole plastic container
of assorted seed packet leftovers
from prior seasons waits in cold
storage in a corner of the base-
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ment. But not a single Early Girl
tomato seed could be found in the
collection.
Tomatoes are a backbone staple
of our summertime diet, the earlier
in the season, the better. And the
point of growing an early tomato
variety is to have early eating - not
likely when the seeds aren’t even
ordered by mid-March.
I hustled off to the neighbor
hood garden center that afternoon,
by-passing the catalogs to carry
home a pack of Early Girl seeds.
Along with a length of lovely
lavendar-colored paper twist, de
stined to replace the Christmas red
on the front door grapevine wreath
with something more Easter-like.
Atmosphere of the garden cen
ter triggered a megacase of spring
fever. The rest of the afternoon
was spent in the greenhouse, re-
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potting young geraniums already
opening cheery red and pink
blooms and calendulas sporting
bright orange daisy-blossoms.
Milking time arrived before
cuttings had been made from last
year’s snapdragon plants wintered
over, or the budding forget-me
nots moved into larger pots. And
there was still that potting soil to
sterilize for those tomato seeds.
Tomorrow.
Then Mother Nature smacked
us procrastinators with the Bliz
zard of ’93.
Plans to sterilize soil got buried
under 18 inches of snow blown
around by 50 mph. winds, cows
calving at the peak of the blizzard,
and ongoing concerns that the
electricity continue flowing and
the milk truck make it through.
(A heartfelt personal thanks to
everyone, everywhere, who help
ed keep milk trucks moving, elec
tricity flowing, and plowed open
drifted rural roads.)
Anyway, the snow piled around
the greenhouse helped insulate it
against the bitter weather while
we tackled farm chores made
more complicated by the storm.
No use to dig it out.
Days later, when sunshine and
balmier breezes turned drifts to
slush, a phone conversation with a
friend jolted my memory. All her
garden seedlings already had se
veral leaves.
That did it.
Minutes later, pots filled with
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potting soil went into the micro
wave. And after milking, the cool
ed, sterilized, mini-seedbeds were
planted with two varieties each of
tomatoes and marigolds and mov
ed onto the top of the water heater
to germinate in the genlly-warm
location.
By morning, a seed catalog or
der was tallied and ready for mail
ing. The immediate urgency, how
ever, had diminished, since the
bulk of the order was for seeds.
Lancaster Foundation
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LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
One of the objectives of the
Lancaster County Farm and Home
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higher education of the youth of
Lancaster County. In this respect,
the Foundation is announcing the
offering of scholarship awards in
1993 in the fields of agriculture
and home economics.
Each scholarship award will be
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at any accredited educational
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of study in Agriculture or Home
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the late Elmer L. Esbenshade, one
of the founders of the Lancaster
County Farm and Home Founda-
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 27, 1993-B3
plants, bulbs and supplies not
needed until outside planting time.
Since a foot of compacting
snow covered the garden and a
small spring has been known to
gurgle through the garden during
really wet years anyway my
procrastination guilt has resided a
bit.
But, there may be no Early
Girls this year.
Just Slightly Late Girls.
tion. The income from this trust
fund will be offered annually in
the form of educational scholar
ships through the Farm and Home
Foundation.
Scholarship applications are
available from senior guidance
counselors, vocational agriculture
and home economics teachers in
all school districts in Lancaster
County.
Interested youth are urged to
contact either their senior gui
dance counselor, vocational agri
culture or home economics teach
er for details and an application
blank. Additional information is
also available from John H.
Schwartz, chairman of the Scho
larship Committee, 1383 Arcadia
Road, Room 1, Lancaster, PA
17601 (phone 394-6851). Appli
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