We put the farm garden
to bed a weekend ago. No killing frost
yet, which is most unusual. Sue picked
the remaining tomatoes. I dug the last
of the beets, pulled the rutabagas (not a good crop this year), and cut the
remaining collards, which are still growing like everything. I picked the last couple of the zucchini
(what a run they’ve had this year), cut the last of the broccoli (also much
better than average crop), and gathered up the remaining squash and gourds.
When we finished with
the digging, pulling, cutting and gathering, we removed all the tomato and potato
vines from the garden. We had some late
blight, and this is one way to keep the disease from the garden.
When this work was
completed, Steve wrapped up the electric fence wire, and Paul pulled the little
steel posts that had surrounded the garden.
Once more our two wire electric fence had successfully kept the deer
(only one violation all summer), the turkeys and the raccoons away from our
vegetables.
Now it was time to
hitch the tractor to the disk and work all the remaining refuse into the soil—which
Steve did. He’s become the go-to-guy for
driving the John Deere. Once the ground
was well worked, Steve and Sue broadcast winter wheat over the entire garden
area. Steve worked the wheat into the
soil with the disk—and the job was done.
The garden is ready for winter.
With a little rain,
the wheat will germinate, and the turkeys and the deer can feast on the new
crop—our gift to them for keeping out of the garden all summer long.
THE OLD TIMER
SAYS: Time to think of next year’s
garden.
October
11, 10-12:00 a.m. Heartland Forum,
Chicago.
October
11, 4:00 p.m. Old World Wisconsin-Wisconsin Ag. History
October
12, 5:00 p.m. Coloma Historical Society.
Limping Through Life
October
15, 6:30 p.m. 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 and Wisconsin Agriculture: A History.
October
23, 10-11:00 a.m. Wisconsin Historical Society Museum (on the square). Whispers
and Shadows. Wisconsin Book Festival.
October
23, 3:30 p.m. Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium (On UW Campus) Wisconsin
Agriculture: A History. Wisconsin Book
Festival.
October
25, 2:00 p.m. Schlitz Nature Center, Milwaukee with Boswell Books. Whispers and Shadows.
October
29, Brown County Library. Premier of TV
Documentary,” The Land With Jerry Apps. “ Book signing, Whispers and Shadows.
November
1, 2:00 p.m. Gard Theater, Spring Green. Ag History and Wisconsin Place Names
(a Robert Gard book).
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
10, 6:00 p.m. Wausau Public Library, Wisconsin Agriculture: A History.
November
12, 7:00 p.m. Bellville High School Auditorium with Bellville Public Library. Wisconsin Agriculture: A History
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
17, 7:00 p.m. Hotel Red (1501 Monroe Street- corner of Regent and Monroe,
Madison.) “Wisconsin Agriculture: A
History, a discussion with Doug Moe. Sponsored by Mystery to me Bookstore. Book signing to follow.
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)
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 as
well as Whispers and Shadows and his
newest nonfiction book, Wisconsin
Agriculture: A History.
Contact
the library for prices and special package deals.
Patterson
Memorial Library
500 Division Street
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