{"id":4596,"date":"2017-02-17T09:49:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T14:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=4596"},"modified":"2025-08-24T11:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:03:12","slug":"how-does-your-garden-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2017\/02\/17\/how-does-your-garden-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"How Does Your Garden Grow?"},"content":{"rendered":"


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My mother, Joyce, remembers learning about gardening from her parents.\u00a0 They lived in what could probably be called a suburb. East Wilton was an offshoot of Wilton.\u00a0 Their garden plot sat across busy Route 2 from the house.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When my mother was small, she could only go across to the garden with her parents or older siblings.\u00a0 One day she asked if she could just wait on the sidewalk.\u00a0 Then she crossed the road by herself anyway.\u00a0 When her mother asked her why she had disobeyed, Joyce glibly replied, \u201cThe devil made me do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of mom\u2019s earliest jobs in the garden was pest control.\u00a0 She would wander through the tomatoes picking off the soft and squishy worms.\u00a0 Mom said, \u201cI threw them into an old 4-quart motor-oil can to be burnt by my father or brother.\u201d<\/p>\n

They grew lots of tomatoes and also cucumbers, peas, green beans, corn and parsnips.\u00a0 When she was a bit older, her brother Ron joined the Future Farmers and borrowed a tractor to plow a large area for potatoes.<\/p>\n

One of the most helpful gardening tips she learned was soon after she married.\u00a0 They were short on cash and could not afford the expense of wire fence for their peas.\u00a0 An older gentleman told them to plant their peas in a double row and they would help support each other.<\/p>\n

Mom and Dad plowed up a plot across the lawn on a knoll in their first few years of gardening together.\u00a0 It was a beautiful site in what had been cow pasture.\u00a0 They planted<\/p>\n

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Katahdin, Kennebec, Green Mountains and Cobbler potatoes.\u00a0 The first crop had extra large tubers free of wire worms and scab.\u00a0 After a few years the field played out: the potatoes were getting smaller and less abundant.\u00a0 Dad said, \u201cWe used to use \u2018Crow Tar\u2019 until that was banned.\u00a0 Then we started having problems with scab and wire worms.\u201d\u00a0 Mom added, \u201cA friend that we met through Presque Isle Fair gave us something to help after that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gardening has been an enjoyable activity to do with family and now the garden is shared with their grown daughter and her family.\u00a0 Joyce helps cut up the potatoes for planting and says, \u201cI just enjoy walking to the garden and viewing how the crops are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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