On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other
hazards)
Joyce Bupp
One of my very favorite times
of the year has arrived.
Reward season.
Farming is a year-round en
deavor, though certain times are
more intensely hectic than others.
Still, when one is not actually pre
paring, planting or harvesting,
other less-visible chores need on
going attention. Like maintaining
nutrient levels, with the incorpora
tion of manures, fertilizers, and
lime. And controlling weeds, not
only for crop benefits but because
some species, like thistles, multi
flora rose, Johnson grass, are ser
ious and prolific environmental
pests.
Those routine-maintenance
jobs aren’t as emotionally satisfy
ing as the actual harvesting of a
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tall, ear-heavy stand of com, thick
windrows of sweet-smelling alfa
lfa hay or cascades of golden
beige soybeans pouring from a
combine bin into a truck. But
face it there’s no harvest if the
other routine, preparatory and
maintenance-necessary stuff isn’t
done.
Similarly, ’tis reward season for
those who year-round tend to the
myriad, mundane chores of plant
ing produce patches in anticipa
tion of great-tasting food for the
body and flowers for lovely, fra
grant food for the soul. And while
we’ve been enjoying fresh home
grown produce for some time, the
hot-weather, gourmet garden
goodies are finally—ripening.
With favorable weather and af-
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tilling, mulching, planting, weed
ing, gardeners are reaping their
just rewards.
I hit the gardening lottery, so to
speak, one recent day. And har
vested the first ripe tomato... the
first watermelon ... the first
cantaloupe ... all in the same
midmoming trip to the garden. A
delicious, nutritious windfall. And
non-taxable to boot. So far.
Several plantings of sunflowers
of assorted types and sizes have
burst open with cheery blooms.
Some are yellow with dark cen
ters, some have varied circles of
color, some have a pale magenta
hue and at least one is blooming in
a maroon shade. Sunflower
blooms traditionally follow the
sun with their faces, so I located
them where their “afternoon
faces” would be visible from the
house. So why do most of the
blooms persist in facing east
away from the house?
Though by anticipation of en
joying their cheerful blooms from
the back porch has been somewhat
thwarted, they are still lovely. The
other intent, that they attract the
yellow finches which love to
snitch sunflower seeds right out of
the heads, is rewarding us with in
creased visits by these flashy little
birds.
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Sweet peas and nasturtiums,
two floral varieties I’ve fiddled
with for several years without
much success, are thriving and
blooming. Neither transplants
well so, in desperation, I started
the seeds of each in tiny, indivi
dual peat pots. The fragrance of
the pastel pink, purple and blue
sweet peas vining over the garden
fence, and the glo-orange nastur
tium blooms outside the calf nur
sery, has rewarded this lucky ex
periment
Predictably, one of the neatest
rewards of the garden so far is an
unexpected one.
While relatives were gathering
some of our abundant sweet com
one day, I ran to the garden for a
bouquet of gladioli blooms to
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share. Though I mislaid one bag of
the bulbs and it was planted later,
they are all blooming concurrently
and pushing out abundant spikes
of colorful flowers.
And, there, zipping around
above the planting of bright pink
and yellow spikes was a hum
mingbird. The first hummingbird
I’ve seen near the garden in ages. I
stopped dead in my tracks, broke
off a few of the closest spikes and
left the rest If that hummingbird
wants gladiolus blooms, it
shall have them.
Proving again that lots of life’s
rewards come unplanned. Unex
pected. Pure serendipity.
So we just need to enjoy them
right where they turn up.
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