816-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 6, 1995 All Gardens Great & Small by York Co. Horticultural Agei Tom Becker “My parents idea of gardening was to grow all they could and load it onto a truck and peddle it in town. My mother teaching me to can vegetables was another way to pass information from generation to generation. That really has been a. victory in itself.** “The legacy of victory gardens is what we learned from those who gardened in the *4os. In our family, everyone looks to our grandpa rents and their vegetable patch as the gardeners to emulate. We are all victory gardeners if we follow the gardening practices of preced ing generations.” Remembrances of gardens past include many planting tips. Here are a few victory garden tips you’ll enjoy. Remember the time of year that a vegetable grows best Radishes grow best in the spring and fall and not in the heat of summer. They mature in 2S-3S days. Beets can be Super Cupboards (Continued from Page B 14) GARDEN VEGETABLE STIR FRY 1 tablespoons salad oil '/. teaspoon garlic powder 2 carrots, cleaned and sliced 2 ribs celery, cleant sliced 1 cup broccoli, washed, separ ated into flowerets with stems cut into thin slices 1 cup cabbage, cleaned and shredded cup onions, sliced thin tablespoon soy sauce teaspoons cornstarch cup water ROLLINGON...WTHE W# . MErrewsis&B>~ ‘ -.... ** 3 FT. BASKET HARROWS Brillion has designed a 3 pt. S-tine field cultivator with a larger, aggressively angled 12“ diameter rolling basket, a 4-bar frame that allows for either 4“ or 6" tooth spacing and an adjustable coil tine leveler bar. Gauge wheels are optional. ADAMSTOWN Adamttown Equip. Inc. ALLENTOWN Lehigh Ag Equipment BECHTELSVILLE Miller Equip. Co. BERWICK C.H. Rinehlmer & Sons CARLISLE GutshaH’s, Inc. DOVER George N. Groea, Inc. EASTON i George V. Seiple planted as soon as the ground is workable up to mid-summer since most varieties mature in 60 days. Vegetables maturing at the same time should be planted together. Get the soil ready as soon as the soil can be dug. Plant a quick maturing crop between ones that take a long time to mature. Use radish or lettuce for intercropping with peas. Plan to have your soil producing at all times (succession planting). Follow early peas with late turnips, beets, snap beans, or spinach. Eat early onions first. They are not good keepers. White varieties are the quickest to spoil. Red var ieties keep the best followed by yellow types. The gardener who keeps hens should plant a few green rape or swiss chard to provide continuous feed. Small autumn cabbage supp ly a winter food along with red Heat oil in skillet. Add carrots and onions. Stir-fry 3 to 4 minutes until partially cooked. Add cab bage and broccoli. Stir-fry 2 to 3 minutes or until vegetables are ten der but still crisp. Mix cornstarch, water, garlic powder, and soy sauce. Add cornstarch mixture to vegetables slowly, stirring con stantly. Continue cooking - itil bubK Oi subsi cooki navy Servi CONTACT YOUR BRILLION DEALER FOR DETAILS ELIZABETHTOWN NEW HOLLAND IHIRIRIIMIH Messlck Farm Equipment Co. A.B.C. Groff, Inc. INTERCOURSE OAKLAND MILLS C.B. Hoober & Son Peoples Sales & Service OLEY Pikevllle Equipment, Inc. SOMERSET Summit Machinery QREENCASTLE Meyers Implement LANCASTER Lendls Brothers, Inc. LEBANON Umberger’s of Fontane LOYSVILLE Gutshall’s, Inc. LYNNPORT Kermlt K. Klstlsr, Inc. NEEDMORE WEST QROVE Clugston Farm Equipment S.G. Lewis * Son, Inc. beets. The scarlet runner bean is a first class vegetable as well as a most colorful vine. Train it on a lattice or fence. It occupies little space and produces an amazing amount of food. If your garden is level, work horse or cow manure into the ear den in the early spring. Start your plants from seed rather then buy ing them. This conserves our scarce seed supply. Use the flat side of a hoe to tamp down seeds afterplanting to get rid of air pock ets. Use a hoe or scuffle hoe to remove weeds while they are small. When planting seeds such as carrots which take longer to spr out, plant a few radish seeds which sprout quickly, thus marking the rows and making weeding easier. Using starter solutions of fertil izers at planting would be an inter esting experiment to conduct Make your own starter solution of 4-8-4 fertilizer with 5 gallons of water and using one cup of the mix per plant Compare it to the stan dard manure tea made with a half barrel of dry manure mixed with 2 barrels of water. Mulch the garden after planting with straw or grass clippings. Cov er your transplants with wax paper, jars, baskets, newspaper cones for animal and frost protection. Grow a few flowers for fragrance mignonette, heliotrope, nicotians or sweet alyssum. Lastly, mix fine soil or sand HFC FIELD CULTIVATORS 16y a Ft. to 31 Vi Ft. The "heart" of any field cultivator is the shank pivot point. A "bulked up" shank bracket made of cast ductile iron instead of the usual formed steel bracket, incorporates a hardened steel bushing AND a zerk grease fitting to lubricate the pivot point to reduce wear. The result is thousands of acres of extended life of the shanks. QUARRYVILLE Grumslli Farm Service ELMER TAMAQUA Pol* Tavern Equip. Sale* Corp Charles Snyder, Inc. r COLUMBUS “rfWd N Ag A Turf Center, Inc. Bro ««" ***** with small seeds before sowing to save dunning later. For more information on victory gardening, ask for the “Vegetables for Victory” packet available at the Extension Office, call San at (717) 757-9657. Cost is $5.50 per copy and includes: Small (30 ft x 50 ft) victory garden plans, oral 4-H Horticulture Projects The Bucks County 4-H will be offering Fun To Do Horticulture Projects for the spring and summer of 1995. The Great Pumpkin Project affords Bucks County youth the opportunity to grow several diffe rent pumpkins from seed or trans plants through maturity and harvest Youth are given the seeds and plants to begin the project They observe, nurture, and keep records on their pumpkins for die program. In the fall, youth will harvest their prize pumpkins and partici pate in the Pumpkin Roundup held in conjunction with the Churehvil le Nature Center’s Pumpkin Weigh-In and Pumpkin Festival. The 4-H Red, White and Yellow 5 This is the year to head t l<| North for our best trip ]2 to the Maritimcs J BARGAIN PRICED! FREDERICK Ceresvllle Ford New Holland BRIDGETON Leslie Fogg FAIRIELO Caldwell Tractor A Equipment history/bricf remembrances, vic tory gardens emergence through history and vegetable planting tips from die 19405, companion plant ing guide, seed planting guide, heirloom seeds explained, veget able growing fact sheets, York County farmer markets and locat ing a suitable plot for gardening. Potato project lets youth grow sev eral different varieties of potatoes. Seed potatoes are provided at a minimal fee and youth observe, keep records, harvest and display the fruits of their laljor at the Mid dletown Grange Fair. Both of these projects are open to any youth between the ages of 8-19. Bucks County 4-H offers many opportunities for youth to partici pate in a wide variety of activities. To find out more about 4-H or to register for the Great Pumpkin or Potato Project, please call the Bucks County Cooperative Exten sion Office at (215) 345-3283. Hunterdon Hoppers, 4-H Rabbit The last meeting of the Hunter don Hoppers 4-H Rabbit Club was at the Hunterdon County Exten sion Center, on March 20. The meeting started at 7:30 p.m. Every one gave a report on their rabbits. Mrs. Seeley of High Bridge demonstrated how to clip rabbit’s teeth. Betsie Friga of Asbury talked about “A Disease Called Pasturella." Darlene Soga of Asbury spoke on rabbit history. 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