82-Lancaater Farming, Saturday, February I, 1997
On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other
hazards)
Joyce Bupp
Warm and caressing, the sunshine coaxes the greening
grass and touches delicate blooms of soft color.
Garden veggies await harvest, succulent and tasty with all
those important vitamins and minerals disguised by their
sheer deliciousness.
And nary a weed peeks up through thick stands of plant
growth of picture perfection.
Yes, it’s so. It really is. All there, in brilliant color in
the seed catalogs. In stunning color and described with the
most appealing of phrases: masses of long-lasting blooms...
a standout in your garden... fabulous in the kitchen... sweet
est ever ... outstanding yields ... extaordinary rich flavor.
In your dreams, I remind myself, plopping the stack of
seed catalogs back on the coffee table. Remember the end
less tain of last summer? Remember the rampant grass that
choked out the geraniums and tangled the asparagus patch?
Remember the cantaloupes that drowned and the gladioli
bulbs that rotted in the ground?
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Boy, good thing we gardeners
have such selective memories. We
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, Baby watermelons, the lovely, ten
der Red Sails lettuce, tasty tomatoes
and perky jalapeno peppers.
Gardeners are undying optimists.
This year by gosh this year
will be different And by gosh
each year is different
So with the slightly lengthening
days, brighter sunshine and the vis
ions of fresh veggies and sweet
smelling bouquets brought on by
wishing with seed catalogs, it was
inevitable. The spring fever bug
attacked with a vengeance at my
absolute most vulnerable spot
standing in a garden center aisle,
face-to-face with racks of seed
displays.
Understand, now, I fought it for
awhile. Really I did Walked away.
Came back. Circled the displays,
eyeing the varieties. Debated that I
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logs waiting at home.
“But you need the Early Girl
tomato seeds,” urged the other half
of my brain. “Need to get them
started so you can get them out just
as early as possible. Don’t you want
June tomatoes? And the final teasing
thought: “It might be an early
spring.”
Resolve crumbled Into the cart
went the tomato seeds. Followed by
a couple of others. A few steps
away, what should turn up but
another display of competitor’s seed
packets, sending the green thumb
into packet-pickin’ overdrive.
Half the brain still argued. Sure,
there were a dozen seed catalogs in
the stack at home. And they listed
varieties that I also wanted but was
not going to find in these display
racks, so mail orders would still be
necessary. It was no use. Into the
cart went more packets.
Having gotten into the spirit, a list
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from a catalog was in final prepara
tion less than 24 hours later. A quick
inventory of seeds left from last year
confirmed what I had begun to sus
pect —once I though about it— and
several itertis on the lisiscould be
eliminated.
Admittedly, this seed packet
impulse-buying is pretty poor plan
ning. But it’s a cheap addiction.
Seeds are a wonderful bargain when
you compare the cost to what’s
involved producing them and what
the potential yields are.
Taking inventory of my impulse
bought seed packs. I scratched off
the original mail order list several of
the items scrawled there. Including
sweet peas.
Somehow, not paying attention
during the seed buying binge, I’d
already acquired two packs of those.
One of them grows 20-foot vines of
the flowering peas.
Maybe I can train them to grow up
the sides of a silo.
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