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Home My WebLink AboutMarch 04, 1982 - Seeds of Things to Come . _. ._ . _. . . . _. ' Page 14 �Cfje �uff o[� �imeg � March 4, 1982 F .___�.,, ,-.�. - ._.� ��.- - _. � � O� our problems is that we hate to cnt back. It horseradish,but let me forewarn you to put See�/s of Tf�in�s � t/ � takes so long for a tree to grow and then to it in an out-of-the-way place or it will take cut it back almost seems sinful.Yet it is this over. Ours grows beside the horse trough ` very pruning that will stimulate the tree out in the pasture where it gets ample water � Everyday�vhen I go down for the mail, andgivebetterandbiggerfruit. andsun. `; the dog goes with me.He is rewarded with a When Pm out there amongst the trees and Besides the trees that need pruning,we'll biscuit when he carri js back a piece of �O�nn� O� raspberries and look around, it is difficult have to do the grapes and roses. We don't cl ; mail.Most of the mail is unk mail and bills. U to Lhink of that mass of dead and brown have too many roses,just enough along our Seems there has been an unusual amount of rubble in the garden will ever again be fence to supply us with an occasional burst this kind of mail in the past year or so. green. The old dead squash vines are of color and that never-to-be-forgotten c Everything from offerings for silk �� f� stockings �o a chance to win a million ° evident, along with the tomato poles that scent. Often a single rose with a bit of fine do11aI's is there. still hold the remnants of now dried and greenery around,is all that is needed.Also Yet as you sift through this mass of slick _ twistedstalks. there's nothing nicer than a basket of � ` vegetables or fruit from the garden with a k advertisements,every once in a while there One thing we have learned about handful of flowers on top for the lady in the �� t will be something that catches your eye. them for our heads always seem to be tomatoes is that you can keep the green kitchen. Seed catalogs in our house are pulled out turnedinthesamedirection. ones and have them through the fall.They � and placed in a special spot. Looking Seedl,istsMadeReady aren't anything like a fresh picked tamato It's still too early for raking the leaves < through them seems to satisfy some inner All over the country seed lists are being fromthegardenbuttheyequalorarebetter that have accumulated on the lawn and .� { desire.Perhaps it is the hope of what is to drawn up. Minds are thinking ahead to than the store-bought ones and they're around the bushes, but when the time come.Something like a child's anticipation what and where to plant.New varieties will mine. Ours kept right up until Christmas comes they'll not be wasted. Some will be of Christmas. Remember the tattered betriedandtheoldfaithfulsreordered.The this year. There were enough for a salad chewed up in the mulcher and put around "wishing books"years ago from Sears and over-zealous will start his seeds too s�on. every day or so and now holding green the acid-loving trees and shrubs, while �, Wards we spent so many hours thumbing The over-busy will wait too long. But t.he tomatoes will be one of our standard others will be swept onto a canvas and `, through. wise, with his years of experience, will procedures. pulledoutintothegarden.They'llbeusedlo We buy very little from these seed plant at just the right time. lnstead of long mulch the raspberries. � ' catalogs but gain an awful lot of leggy seedlings or a late sprovting,his will F irst Vroduce I�'rom the G.�rden ` information about new varieties, early be green and healthy.A good friend of mine, As soon as the ground thaws completely Don't Waste the Leaves ` bearers,a blight resistant strain of apples with years of experience behind him, l�as I'll be digging up horseradish. The long I'ears ago I started this and it worked � ` or pears and a hundred other things that that ability to plant, fertilize and water white carrot-like roots will be washed and �'onders. We have no weeds around the ,, make up the world of gardening. exactly at the right time every year. As a scrubbed and brought into the house.Then raspberries and it always seems to be inoist Seems to me people who have gardens matter of fact there are some things I've they will be ground up in the old meat beneath them. In the town of Brookhaven are a special breed. They have certain given up on and will get from him.There's grinder, mixed with vinegar and salt and all leaves are brought to one place, - qualities that seem to knit them together. nobettersupply. putinjarsforfutureuse.Here'sa tastethat mulched and made into rich compost. � They have a sensitivity not always found in Outside there's much to do. My can't be beaten for cocktail sauces on They've had this program of creating 4 thehustleandbustleof today'sworld.They raspberries,that should have been pruned shellfish and cream sauces on cold meats valuablemulchfromleavesforyears. 4 ; have patience and that all-important sense earlier,still have to be done,and so do the that I remember so well as a boy. Every It seems wrong to take bags of leaves to s � of caring. I feel comfortable with most of ap�,�es, pears, peaches and plums. One of garden should have its patch of our town dump and bury them when they � could be converted into useful compost for both town and public use. �' Slowly we are all learning--whether it is < from reading a new seed catalog that just j came in the mail telling us about a blighl- � ` resistant apple or learning from other � ` towns how they handle their leaf problems- � � -we're learning.The important thing here �� is to put this knowIedge into practice. G� �� T'�,i'�,ti'If'(11.17'I?NRUPdUII , ` , , � � `� /1■ t►/ �` .. L� , / � , } � �. � � �, x , ,�1� . . � • � I �� x,��:a �:. � �,. ��1�', r�� . / �� 1� - �� , � •� . /�� ► I � . �f�::.^ � � � � � . � . . / � � ��,,.. i �� p� �. ,Yc S • ' • ' � : ' • ' • � � �Cr• '`� ,),., '' 3s�.0 r�' � • • � � t � ' S�-, , � ' � • ' �,Z��: ( F.;� �, � � � � � � � ; 1� ; P I I I I i �„� � � ' � , $ : -- . . . �g„� . . . : ` �.UNCaNEON SPEC/ALS D/NNER SPEC/ALS F EVERY MONDAY: Opsn Hot Ro..t B..t ` �"�"f1O� MONDAY SmallSteek �.�, ��.. ��,a M�, � 8.25 � = - __ _----- - -� --- EVERY WEDNESDAY: B.d1�d H�m StNlc o. , ,� .,e.., _ sn.�� s� HORSERADISH--Thefirstreward <' EVERY 7HURSDAY op.nHaTu�cs�r s.ndwfch WEDNESDAY �tuffed Flounder � 8 � from the arden thiS s rm will be o.Fr�.n Flw,na..ss.mpi • g P � g � EVERY FRIDAY: Fr..h BroU.d Flound.r w horseradish that seems to taste � �P�$�+�w TN U RS DAY Stsak and Crab Lega �1 Q.� better after a Iong winter's freeze. � EVERYSATURDAY: --ar�,•,s�W PhotobyBarbaraStoutenburgh �p��„� FRIDAY Shrimp Scampi � �■� �� ALLfORONLY 9.� ELIH Accredited � SATURDAY Frosh Roast Prlme � ' $ Ribs of Besf au jus GREENPORT--The Joint Commission All lhe above served with on Accreditation of Hospitals has awarded French Fries, or Hice Eastern Long Island Hospital a two-year Pilaf and Cole Slaw, E�c" SUNDAY Broiled Flounder � �■� certificate of accreditation. Salad and Coffee. "Thi� is a fine tribute to the entire All the above served with Cup of `►ospital staff, and to the community we ' Soup, Bread and Butter, Salad, erve who made improvements possible BAR SPEC/ALS through their generous donations," de- Potato and Coffee clared hospital president Joseph G. Riem- LATE NIGHT MENU �`+ LOCATED ON ROUTE 25. '/4 MILE WEST erJr. "Wehave been receiving accredita- Thursday through Sunday Till l A.M. �'"" OF GREENPORT VILLAGE. tion since 1965, proof of our continuing KITCHEN CLOSED TUESDAY 477-2021 reputation for established leadership in Sundays Open at 4:00 P.M. health." The hospital was evaluated during an LUNCH 11:30- 2:30 DINNER 5:00- 10:00 on-site visit by a team of JCAH surveyors who conferred with the professional staff. ' From January through June 19, 1981, only 80 percent of the hospitals evaluated received the two-year certificate. , ' � , �