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The Sylvania Times
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The Farm
Wife
at Two Pennies Farm
GIFT HORSE
Nancy Baker
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I cannot imagine a garden without lilies. Lilies are
beautiful and add an exotic charm to any garden.
Lilies come in a multitude of colors and add color and
aroma to the garden.
There are so many varieties for lilies to choose from.
Look at your local companies to order now for FALL
PLANTING. The main categories of lilies are Asiatic,
Trumpet and Oriental. Each has its own flowers
periods, and they overlap blooming cycles.
Fall planting allows the bulbs to settle in and
get established for the spring. Then in spring, the
magic appears. It is recommended to get a couple
of varieties from each
category of lily to make a
stunning display.
Plant all the bulbs in a
single area, mixing the
bulbs to allow color and
blooms to be mixed and
not uniform.
A bonus of lilies is they
can be used in fresh
cut vase arrangements.
Remember to dead head
the spent blooms to allow
the new blooms more energy and nutrients. Also, this
keeps seed pods from forming that uses energy from
the bulb.
As always, join your local garden club for a wealth
of information and fellowship.
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PLANTING DAYS
ACCORDING TO MOON SIGNS
Above-ground crops: t, 4,5,9, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29
Root crops: 10,13,14,18,19
Seed beds: 1,18,19, 27, 28, 29
Kill plant pests: 2, 3, 6, 7, 8,11,12,15,16,17,
20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 30
FISHING DAYS FOR SEPTEMBER 2022
Best: 7, 8, 9,10,18,19
Good: 1, 6,13, 28, 29
Fair: 4, 5, u, 12,14, 27
Poor: 2, 3,15,16,17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 30
PLANTING TABLE FOR SEPTEMBER
Gardens: Carrots, spinach, kale, lettuce, beets,
onion sets, Swiss chard, tendergreen, turnips,
rutabaga, salsify, parsnips, parsley, cabbage,
collard plants and smooth seeded English peas.
Lawn: This is one of the best months of the
year to build old, plant new lawns. Blue grass,
evergreen mixtures, shady place grass and winter
green and ryegrass should be planted to give
perfect results. Use plenty of plant food, bone
meal, tobacco meal, lime and peat moss.
Rusty & Abh;e Robb.'ns Owners
Hunting in
Georgia with
"The Hunting Guy”
Bow Hunting in
Georgia has started
Georgia’s archery season
for deer has begun as of
September 11th, and the
statewide gun season will
open October 16th.
As always, when deer
hunting in Georgia, make
sure to double-check the
Georgia regulations before
you decide to pull the
trigger on an antlerless
deer and put some meat in
the freezer.
I have had alot of
questions regarding
hunting in the back
yard. State law broadly
allows licensed hunters
to stalk deer on private
property with the owner’s
permission. Illegal hunting
can be a problem, both on
private land and in such
parks as the Chattahoochee
River National Recreation
Area.
Archery hunting is
allowed during primitive
weapon and firearm deer
seasons. Deer of either
sex may be taken unless
otherwise noted in the rules
and regulations of Georgia's
hunting guidelines.
How about airbows?
Georgia law classifies
airbows as a primitive-
weapon. That means
airbows are not legal during
archery season, and they’re
never legal in Georgia’s
archery-only urban and
suburban counties. So in
Georgia, at least for this
deer season, airbows are
only legal when and where
muzzleloaders are legal.
Also, the game warden
recently told me that
anywhere in the state
where it is legal to use corn,
apples, salt, etc to attract
deer to a particular area is
legal. All bait feeders are
legal to hunt over for deer
on private lands. Of course
with permission, he states.
Alot of friends have told
me they thought that a
game warden cannot fine
you on your own property.
That is not true. Always
remember that game
warden’s can and will
come on private property
and look outside buildings
in the performance of
their duties. They can just
walk up on your property,
look around and report
anything they find illegal.
As for a license for
Crossbow hunting. This
is largely
permitted
throughout
the state and
is considered
part of archery
deer hunting.
However,
the state
does require
crossbow
hunters to get
a license for primitive
weapons before they can
hunt during the hunting
seasons. Don’t ever get
caught without one.
And last, but not
least, please remember to
wear orange anytime you
hunt. Bowhunters are not
required by Georgia to wear
orange, but it will keep you
safe from being shot or
injured. Now, Georgia law
does require deer, bear,
and feral hog hunters as
well as their companions,
to wear at least 500 sq.
inches of hunter orange
above the waist during
firearm deer seasons.
Good luck out there guys
and gals! Just remember to
stay safe, keep an eye out
for other hunters and most
of all, have fun.
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Almost everyone has heard the motto “Never look a gift
horse in the mouth,” but few folks know that you can tell a
horse’s age by looking at its teeth. Looking in a gift horse’s
mouth may reveal that your gift is not all it seems.
Just recently I forgot all this, and it cost me three hours of
my life.
One of the guiding principles of Two Pennies Farm is that
no organics leave the farm. Junk mail and printer paper are
organic, but how to recycle or reuse them? I bought a used
shredder thinking to use the shreds as bedding in the chicken
coop, but that didn’t work well. When we cleaned the coop
and put the used bedding on the garden, the shreds worked
themselves free and blew all around the yard. Then I tried
composting them. Again, they kept escaping from the bin and
trashing up the yard. Then I accidentally killed the shredder.
In the meantime, I started an in-ground earthworm bin
planning to use the worm castings to fertilize our garden. I
was having a hard time feeding the worms without throwing
the bin out of balance. I had read that earthworms consider
shredded paper as food, and I thought that at last I had found
a solution to recycling paper on the farm. But now I had no
shredder. Then I was gifted a bag of shredded paper. (A gift
horse!) I was excited to see how shreds would work in the
earthworm bin. I dampened the shreds and layered them in.
I checked the bin weekly, and sure enough the worms were
eating them down.
On one of the recent checks, I was puzzled to see plastic
shreds in the bin. Where did those come from? Then I figured
it out. The person who had given me the shreds had put
envelopes through the shredder without removing the plastic
windows. She was shredding her papers for identification
security and not thinking about composting them.
Now what was I going to do? Chucking the whole bin and
starting over was not an option, but I couldn’t let that plastic
get into my garden. It would degrade into micro-plastics, be
taken up by the vegetable roots and get into our food. I ended
up doing the only thing I could think of doing. I got a couple
of buckets, lined my worktable with newspapers and dumped
the whole mess on top of the table. I spent the next three hours
carefully separating the plastic shreds from the earthworms
and the dirt. I ended up with a 2-gallon bucket full of plastic
shreds. It was peaceful, meditative work, but not how I would
have chosen to spend three hours.
The earthworms are contentedly installed in their newly
cleaned home, and the plastic shreds are going to the landfill,
where they will live forever. The first window envelopes,
invented in 1902, used rice paper or glassine paper, both of
which are biodegradable and are still manufactured today. I
wish we still used them; it would have saved me three hours of
cleaning plastic out of my worm bin and untold tons of plastic
from being on earth forever.
I have lucked into a new shredder, and my earthworms are
happily feeding on plastic-free shredded wastepaper. Any
future gift horses will be looked straight in their mouths.
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