As I’ve mentioned earlier, my town garden is a tiny little
thing, only 3 ½ feet by eight feet. In
some ways it’s more of a “wannabe garden” than a real vegetable garden, especially for
those of us who have grown up with and continue to have gardens that range up
to a ¼ acre in size.
Yet, I must
confess, a bunch of vegetables can be grown in a little space, as long as there
is at least eight hours of sunshine a day, and you don’t forget to water it
when the rains don’t come regularly.
Last week I harvested an ice-cream pail of red potatoes from
five potato plants. Blemish free
potatoes, beautiful on the table and wonderful to eat. We’ve harvested leaf lettuce four times, and
broccoli twice. The tomatoes are green
and growing rapidly, some the size of golf balls and larger. The cucumbers, four vines, snake up a little
string trellis I built. They are covered
with yellow blossoms, with a few cucumbers a ¼ inch long.
I’m a believer—so much good, fresh food, from so little space.
Besides, where the vegetable garden grows, there is no grass to mow.
THE OLD TIMER SAYS: Grow your own. It’s easy, fun, and as one of the TV guys
says, “It tastes so good.”
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:
THE EARTH SPEAKS by Steve Van Matre and Bill Weiler. Here is a book of short excerpts from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wallace Stegner, Sigurd Olson, Edward
Abbey and many more. Included in the book is this Indian Proverb:
“The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.”
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:
July 16, 6:30. Heritage Village at Big Creek, Sturgeon Bay,
Farm stories.
August 12, 6:00 p.m., Westfield Library. Farm Stories
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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