Last week I wrote about my town garden. This week I’ll share a little about my much
larger country garden at Roshara, where the rows are thirty inches apart and
many feet long. The country garden has
taken a weather beating, two bad storms a week apart dumped always needed rain,
but the wind we could do without. A week
ago my sweetcorn all leaned to the east, with the most recent storm it now
leans to the south. I’m hopeful it will
recover.
Also, with the cold nights back in May, the germination of
my vine crops was not good. Thus my squash,
pumpkin and even cucumber crop will be below average. However, the ever sturdy zucchini germinated
and continues to grow. The first little
thumb size zucchini are ready for picking.
On the positive size: the leaf lettuce has never been
better, three cuttings so far, the second cutting of collards was as good as
the first, the tomatoes are on a rampage, and baring blight and more storms, we
ought have several bushel. I dug a pail
full of red potatoes yesterday, blemish free and oh, oh so good to eat.
The first few pints of green beans are in the
fridge ready for eating. The late
cabbage is on a tear—heads bigger than I’ve ever grown. And broccoli, well here I must violate the
longstanding rule that we Germans should never brag—I have the best, biggest
and brightest broccoli. I cut a broccoli
head yesterday that measured ten-inches across.
THE OLD TIMER SAYS: Every year’s garden is filled with
surprises.
Only A FEW OPENINGS REMAIN:
My one-day writing
course on “Writing From Your Life,” is scheduled for Saturday, October 17 at
the Clearing in Door County. Go to http://theclearing.org/current/classes_workshop_description.php?id=26 for detailed information.
BOOK OF THE WEEK:
A WILDERNESS WITHIN: THE LIFE OF SIGURD F. OLSON by David
Backes. Here is a wonderful biography of
Sigurd F. Olson who has written so
lovingly of the Boundary Waters Canoe area of northern Minnesota. Olson is one of my environmental heroes.
Purchase Jerry’s
DVDS and his Books from the Patterson Memorial Library in Wild Rose, Wisconsin
(a fund raiser for them):
The library now has available signed copies of
Jerry’s DVDs, Emmy Winner, A Farm Winter
with Jerry Apps and Jerry Apps A Farm
Story.
Also available are several of Jerry’s signed books
including The Quiet Season (on which
the DVD A Farm Winter is based), as
well as Rural Wit and Wisdom and Old Farm, (which are related to the DVD
Jerry Apps a Farm Story). Also
available is Jerry’s new novel, The Great
Sand Fracas of Ames County.
Contact the library for prices and special package
deals.
Patterson Memorial Library
500 Division Street
UPCOMING EVENTS:
August 12, 6:00 p.m., Westfield Library. Whispers and Shadows
August 26, 9:30 a.m. Farm Technology Days, Sun Prairie. Farm
Stories.
September 3, Noon.
Old World Wisconsin, Wisconsin Agriculture: A History (New book)
September 3, 7 p.m. Books and Company bookstore, Oconomowoc,
Whispers and Shadows.
September 12, West Madison Agriculture Research Station,
Wisconsin Agriculture: A History. Time
to be announced.
September 17, 11:-a.m.
St. Luke’s Church, Middleton, WI
Stories From the Land
September 19 , Stonefield Village, Cassville. Whispers and Shadows.
September 23, Patterson Memorial Library, Wild Rose.
Wisconsin Agriculture: A History.
September 26, 10:30 -2:00, Dregni’s, Westby, Book signing.
October 7, 6:30 p.m. Reedsburg Library, Whispers and Shadows
October 10, Heartland Forum, Chicago.
October 11, Old World Wisconsin
October 15, Prairie du Sac Library, Whispers and Shadows
October 17, 9-4 Teaching writing workshop at The Clearing,
Ellison Bay, WI
October 17, 4:30-6:00 p.m. The Clearing. Book signing, Whispers and Shadows, Wisconsin
Agriculture: A History.
October 29, Brown County Library. Premier of TV Documentary,” The Land With
Jerry Apps. “ Book signing, Whispers and Shadows.
November 5, 7:00 p.m. Baraboo Library, Whispers and Shadows.
November 7, Edgerton Book Festival, The Land (TV documentary)
and Whispers and Shadows
November 14, 9:30 -11:30 a.m. Sheboygan County Historical
Research Center. Wisconsin Agriculture:
A History.
November 15, 9:15 Midvale Lutheran Church, The Land (TV
documentary) plus discussion of Whispers
and Shadows.
November 18, Preview of TV Documentary, “The Land With Jerry
Apps” Wild Rose High School Auditorium.
Whispers and Shadows book signing. (Time to be announced)
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