My blueberry harvest is finished. Over the past several yean. I’ve probably planted a dozen blueber ry bushes. Some fairly good-sized. Some relatively small The Farm er loves blueberry pie, and one of my goals was to bis able to have my own, home-grown blueberries for use in baking pies, muffins, pancakes. Blueberries thrive on acid soil and need at least some basic mois ture to do well. It’s one of those crops which does best with several bushes in a couple of varieties, to cross pollinate and set fruit So I planted a couple of different var ieties. Made sure the soil had extra acid and organic matter. Covered the plants with net wrap to foil the mockingbirds and robins. For these efforts, I have one three-foot-tall blueberry bush. With two handfuls of fruit. All the other bushes have gone to Plant-Failure Heaven, victims of too much rain, too much dry, too much ... whatever. 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Elizabethtown, Pa. 717-367-8867 asked. “Yep,” I replied. “I harvested ’em.” Truth persisted. “At the supermarket” Looking over a kitchen counter covered, with bags of more “har vest,” I took inventory. Potatoes. Regular and baking. Cleaned. Dug. Packaged. Ready to park in the cool of the ground cellar and use as needed. Having, grown up having to help pick the family’s winter supply of potatoes every fall and not impressed with the job at the time I’ve welcomed The Fanner’s philo sophy that we could better harvest milk and let someone else produce the relatively few potatoes we need. Grapes. Red. Crispy, sweet and cool. The perfect snack. No prepa ration, no waste. We couldn’t grow grapes like this if our lives depended on it Wrong climate. Thank goodness for California vineyards. And*for long-haul truckers pulling refrigerated trail ers laden with shipments of de licious, seedless table grapes. Watermelon. Sliced into a half, so I know exactly what I’m buy ing. Sometimes, they’re less expensive that way than to pur SEE YOUR DEALER TODAY! SANDY LAKE IMPLEMENT Sandy Lake, Pa. 412-376-2489 NICHOLS FARM EQUIP. Bloomsburg, Pa. 717-784-7731 B. EQUIP., INC. Waynesboro, Pa. 717-762-3193 chase a whole one and not know what you're getting. Go figure. We do have watermelon plants but they’re ft long way—and gal lons of moisture from the fin ished product However, the gar den, with luck, will yield some of those wonderful, crispy, few seeds, yellow-fleshed melons. Gourmet melons. And, if they fail, we’U manage to survive with the ordinary red fleshed kind. From the supermar ket or the retail produce center up the road a mile. Costing 25 cents a pound, more or less. Ready to eat Lettuce. If there was ever a fresh kind of produce we take for granted, it’s lettuce. With several different varieties available in the produce section, our salads don’t have to be routine and boring. I didn’t plant lettuce this sea son. But some fledgling heads of tender buttercrunch came up from seeds dropped last season from a matured stalk. They sprouted in a flower bed, then dried up before the delicate heads were ready. Not jto worry. You can buy several kinds of lettuce a whole head for under a buck. Most any market Most anytime. Cucumbers. Which we’ve been enjoying from the market for many weeks. There are two hills of bush cukes planted in the garden and being hand watered, along with other "hill” crops. They were just bushing out and beginning to show a few yellow blooms when a groundhog de leafed both stalks for dinner. Why don’t groundhogs eat weeds? Huh? So what? I can just go “harvest” my needs at the market... Just suppose that, like our an cestors not too terribly far back, we had to provide for our own B.H.M. FARM EQUIP. INC. Annville, Pa. 717-867-2211 GRUMELLI FARM SERVICE Quarryville, Pa. 717-786-7318 foodstuffs. Suppose there were no produce stands overflowing with fresh fruits and veggies from around the world, no shelves full of baked products, no refrigerated cases laden with fresh meats, no Indiana County Selects INDIANA (Indiana Co.) Tammy Trimble was crowned Indiana County Dairy Princess during the pageant held at Marion Center Area High School recently. Tammy is the daughter of Tom and Faye Trimble of Indiana. She attends Indiana Area High School, where she is active in band. She shows dairy animals at 4-H com petitions, at the county fair, and at the state level. Assisting her in dairy promotion arc the following dairy maids and ambassadors: Gregory Beatty, Julie Fedder, Kathy La Van, Megan Black, Aaron George, Rob by Streams, and Melissa Olson. North Jackson Ag And Community Club The club held its meeting at the home of leaders, Joe and Sandy Pavelsld. 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At our house, it wouldn’t in clude blueberries. Todd Marino served as master of ceremonies for the evening, pages were Gala Adamson, Han nah George, Angela Compton, and Nicole Park. Escorts were pro vided by Marion Center FFA and were Joel Abel, Michael Neese, Adam Black, and Kevin Pollock. Flower girl was Hannah Nehrig. Crown bear was Cody Adamson. Julie Lockhart, the former coun ty princess, gave a farewell speech and crowned the new princess. An ice cream social followed the pageant Quality Farm and Fleet of Blairsville donated door prizes. ' Pipitone. Carolyn did hers on the health and grooming care of rab bits with two of her rabbits. Janet explained how the hermit crab finds a new house. Matthew did his demonstration on how to throw and shoot a bas ketball. Joe did his on archery. The business meeting was called to order and Lloyd Pease, leader, discussed the calf dressing contest - Outdoor Coal * Pre-Engineered Buildings
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