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The Sylvania Times
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Bad news is time flies. Good news is you’re the
The Farm
Wife
at Two Pennies Farm
DIFFERENT
Nancy Baker
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The Dog Fennels have bloomed, Ragweed is
blooming, dried cornstalks are in the field and the
smell of peanuts is in the air. Fall is in the air, with
the cool temps in the mornings, it feels good. With fall
firmly here, now is the time to plan to trim shrubbery,
prune other bushes and prepare for winter. There is
still time to separate and replant Bearded Iris before
winter. Prepare your iris beds and dig the rhizomes.
Trim the foliage and separate them to replant. Once
you replant, remember to leave the top of the rhizome
exposed, you can cover them with a light covering of
pine straw for the winter, just remember to remove
it in the spring. Now is also the time mulch your yard
with leaves and pine straw. If you have pecan trees
or other trees with soft leaves, you can mulch your
shrubbery with them and then place a layer of pine
straw on top. The leaves will decompose and create
a rich layer of peat for your plants, which will hold
moisture and nutrients. A few plants that are good
for the winter months and are low maintance and are
very beautiful
are pansies,
winter
kale and
snapdragons.
They are easy
to plant and
maintain and
they look
beautiful. The
kale comes in
a variety of
colors and adds an exotic look to the winter garden.
The snapdragons are a breath of spring color in winter
and if you keep the old blooms trimmed off the plant,
it will rebloom over and over. Also, you can layer
the flowers in the garden, by planting bulbs, such as
daffodils, narcissus, tulips and allium in the garden
bed first and then plant pansies on top of the bulbs
and plant kale in the back and snapdragons on the
side to give you a variety and color all winter.
As always, join your local garden club for a wealth of
friendship and knowledge.
PLANTING DAYS
ACCORDING TO MOON SIGNS
Above-ground crops: 2,3, 6, 7,25,26, 29,30
Root crops: 10,11,12,15,16,17, 22, 23, 24
Seed beds: 15,16,17, 25, 26
Kill plant pests: 1, 4, 5, 8, 9,13,14,18,19, 21,
27, 28, 31
FISHING DAYS FOR
OCTOBER 2022
Best: 6, 7,15,16,17
Good: 4, 5,10,11,12, 31
Fair: 2, 3, 8, 9, 20, 21, 25, 26, 29, 30
Poor: 1,13,14,18,19, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28
PLANTING TABLE
FOR OCTOBER
Gardens:
Turnips, mustard, spinach, kale, rape, carrots,
cabbage and collard plants, onion sets, smooth
seeded English peas.
Flowers:
This is the month to begin planting hyacinths,
tulips, jonquils, daffodils, crocus, sweet peas,
larkspur, ragged robin, cosmos, poppies, annual
phlox, pinks, candy tufts, pansies, violas,
ageratum, stocks and petunia seeds.
Rusty & Abh;e Robb.'ns Owners
This week I want to feature two of my favorite
hunting spots. I have traveled all over Georgia and I
find that hunting or fishing at home all the time can
get somewhat boring. So, I like to find new spots to
hunt and do a little fishing at the same time.
The first place is located in the North Georgia
mountains near Blueridge. It is a beautiful place
to enjoy the sites and sounds of nature along with
hunting and fishing.
1. Coosawattee-Carter’s Lake in the north western
part of Georgia is a hunters dream. It features
Canoeing, cycling, hiking, primitive lodging, lake
water fishing, private boating, jet skiing, and
hunting are all available. 750 Powerhouse Drive in
Chesterfield is the Coosawattee-Lake Carter’s State
Wildlife Area location. There is no cost to enter
the territory if you have the necessary hunting and
fishing license required.
2. Chestatee Wildlife Management Area
In Lumpkin and Brown counties near Dahlonega,
Georgia is the Chestatee Wildlife Area. It is among
the best public hunting land in Georgia. It’s a
fantastic site for shooting deer, bears, and turkeys, as
well as angling, with far more than 27,000 acres to
discover. Find a comfortable spot, relax, and have fun
on a day of sporting.
And after a day of hunting, you can easily return
to your life feeling a somewhat refreshing change.
Thanks to the major hiking routes in the region, the
vistas you’ll see here will stay with you forever, and
the memories you’ll have of the wildlife will be even
greater. Again, you will need the necessary hunting
and fishing license. Enjoy!
The first time I got a whiff of skunk, I was a kid in
the car with my family. We were on a country back
road on a summer evening with the windows rolled
down and someone had hit a skunk. I thought my
sisters were being awful dramatic with the choking
and gagging. The odor was strong, but to me it
smelled like lemon cleaner. (I did some research,
and this is a thing.) Later that same summer we
drove past a paper mill. Again with the dramatics
from my sisters about the smell. They didn’t agree
with me that it smelled like cloyingly sweet flowers.
I have no idea why my sense of smell was skewed,
but it abruptly righted itself when I passed
menopause. We were driving through Savannah
when I fell out over the smell of the paper mill. “Is
this what y’all have been smelling all these years?
This is horrible!” Same thing later that year with
skunk smell.
Having a defective sense of smell is one thing, but
having a different sense of taste is another. As
a diabetic I cheered the advent of saccharine; I
would be able to have sweets again. Then I got a
taste of it. Yuck!! Who would put this in food? I’m
like that with all synthetic sweeteners. To me they
all taste like turpentine or kerosene. Apparently
this is genetic trait. But it turns out this is a good
thing for me as I am intolerant of all of them. That
means I can’t digest them, and you know what
happens when you eat what you can’t digest.
No one ever told me that this issue of digestibility
increases as you age, or if they did, I didn’t listen.
You can look at me and tell I love to eat. But
apparently, you can wear your gastro intestinal
(GI) tract out, and can lose the ability to digest
whole food groups. Last year my GI tract suddenly
stopped producing the digestive enzymes to process
fish. It surprised the heck out of me. It could be
just haddock and tuna, or it could be all fish. After
what I went through with those two though, there’s
no way I’m going to experiment to find out.
So smell and taste are two of our five senses. That
leaves sight, hearing, and touch. Proprioception
(pro-pree-o-ception) is a part of our sense of touch.
It’s the sense of knowing where our limbs are in
space. My sight and hearing are no worse than
anyone my age, but I am always carrying cuts and
bruises on my arms and legs from banging into
furniture, doors, gates, everything. And I fall a
lot. It’s embarrassing when I faceplant in front of
anyone. Apparently I am losing my sense of exactly
where I am in space or how high I need to lift my
feet to avoid cracks in the sidewalk, acorns, twigs,
electrical cords, or anything on the ground.
All of this to say, be gentle with those who cross
your path in life. You can’t tell by looking, but
chances are they don’t experience reality the same
as you.
Family Trip?
Visit Jaemor Farms
Ready to make a fall trip with the family? Work
your way to Alto, Georgia and visit Jaemor Farms
at Jaemor Farm and Market 5340 Cornelia Hwy
Alto, GA 30510. The farm is a fifth-generation
family farm with bakery featuring fried pied and
homemade ice cream, a huge variety of fruits and
vegetables, corn maze, event center and a variety of
special events throughout the year, along with the
prettiest Mums you will ever find in Georgia.
Since 1912, the Echols family has grown peaches
in the tri-county area of Hall, Banks and Habersham
Counties in the town of Lula, Ga. Tucked into
the foothills of the north Georgia countryside,
our farm was recognized as a Centennial Farm in
2012. Jaemor Farms was established on family
values and hard work that has been passed down for six generations in the Echols family. Once known as
Echols Orchards, our family began farming with peach trees and row crops before focusing solely on the
peaches and other fruits and vegetables that we could sell on our roadside stand of Old Cornelia Highway.
Fast forward to 1981 with the construction of Interstate 985 and Georgia Highway 365, the farm had the
opportunity to construct a new market for on-
farm shopping experiences. This would become
the third peach stand in Lula, therefore the family
renamed ‘Echols Orchards’ to J.A.E.M.O.R.
Farms. JAEMOR is an acronym for the third
generation owners J.immy Allen E.chols and
Valvoreth Mor.rison Echols.
Now you can enjoy homegrown strawberries,
blackberries, muscadines, scuppernongs, Concord
grapes, watermelon, squash, tomatoe, zucchini,
pumpkins and more during our harvest season. In
2006, we opened our first corn maze and began
to participate in the state’s agritourism industry.
Today, on average, Jaemor sees more than a
million customers annually and we are happy to
host each and everyone one of them to let them
taste the difference family makes. The farm is
open, Monday through Saturday 7 a.m. - 6 p.m.
and Sunday 1 p.m. - 6 p.m.
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