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May 2012 EDINBURG NEWSLETTER HOME IMPROVEMENT GUIDE

We Hope You Like Our Contractor & Home Improvement Guide. It has been designed so that it can be easily removed and saved for quick reference. We Hope You Will Patronize Our Local Contractors and Construction Businesses When You Need Work Done On Your Home Or Camp. The Edinburg Newsletter Staff

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by Barbara Henry We had a really interesting presentation in April from Viktoria Sefain on native plants, wildflowers and hostas. Viktoria owns Glenbrook Farm in Fultonville and has hundreds of plants at her nurseries. She shared with us some of the wildflowers that are blooming at this time of year and showed us how she uses hostas in combination with native plants and wildflowers for the best effect. I look forward to visiting her nursery in the not too distant future. May is just around the corner and as we all know, April showers bring May flowers which brings – pilgrims! Moving right along ….Even though we have had good weather recently, don’t be in a hurry to rush your annuals into the ground. We can still have frost up until mid or even late May and many plants do not like to go into cold soil. In fact impatiens and peppers are two great examples of plants that will sulk if planted too cold


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and they may never grow to their potential during the season. Take the time now to get a pH test of your soil; take your hoe and cut off the weeds every couple of weeks as soon as the soil can be worked; don’t mulch your soils yet, wait until mid June when the soils have warmed up. A general purpose fertilizer such as 10-10-10 can be applied to all your beds just as the daffy flowers are fading. Mid to late May sees the return of the hummingbirds to make sure your feeders are clean and fill them with a mixture of one part white granulated sugar to four parts water and boil for a couple of minutes. As the new growth on your perennials emerges it is a good time to divide and transplant. Give the extras to friends. Cut the ornamental grasses to the ground. You can cut up the dried grass and use it as mulch in your vegetable bed in June. Don’t be in a hurry to discard plants you think have died. Many plants such as Joe Pye weed, Rose of Sharon and hibiscus take a little longer to wake up. Visit your local garden center to fill in any empty spaces in your garden. Contrast leaf textures and heights, use complementary colors or plant a single color themed garden. Any new plants should be well watered in and watered consistently the first year. New plants don’t need feeding the first year. In the veggie garden, have a plan of where you plan to plant. Try to rotate your crops every year. Different crops have different nutrient requirements and changing their location can disrupt the life cycles of many pests. Peas should be in by now and your cold weather crops such as broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage can be planted out after they have been properly hardened off. Sow beet seeds an inch deep. Later you can thin them to one strong plant in each position. You can treat carrots and radishes the same way. Don’t be in a rush to plant those tomato plants yet, they like warm soil. I like to wait until the end of May and a week or so later, depending on the weather, for peppers. You can lay black plastic over your beds to warm the soil. This is particularly good for melons and pumpkins because

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they love warm soil and have a long growing season. You can start zucchini, melons and pumpkins about three weeks before you plant to transplant them. They prefer to be started in peat pots because they really don’t like to be transplanted and putting them in a peat pot to start means you can pop pot and all in the garden. It’s a good idea to tear off the top of the peat pot and make sure it is below the level of the soil because the peat will wick moisture from the soil and your precious seedling might not get the water you think it is getting. Come join us on Thursday, June 7 for the third of our series of community presentations. This is the orchid presentation we had originally scheduled for March but out first snow storm of the year forced us to cancel. It is at the Northville Public Library at 1:30 p.m. and we will have refreshments afterwards. Janet will be bringing plants to sell if you are interested. On Saturday, May 5 starting at 9:00 a.m. we will be having our annual plant sale so come see what we have to offer. We are located on Main Street across from Stewarts and our thanks go to Ginger Driscoll for allowing us to use her property.

The Master Gardeners of Fulton and Montgomery counties will be having their plant sale on May 12 starting at 11:00 a.m. at Udderly Delicious, just past Hamilton Avenue on Route 30A in Johnstown. Master Gardeners will be on hand to answer any of your gardening questions. Remember to visit our webpage that Betsy Emery created for us as part of the visitsacandaga.com website (for which we are forever grateful to her). Previous articles are archived and as always you can contact us at P.O. Box 675, Northville, NY 12134. Remember too, Germaine Greer’s words: A garden is the best alternative therapy.


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Our April 11th meeting was devoted to fishing rods. Our presenter was Glen Flagler of Schenectady who made an exciting program of making your own fly rod or casting rod. Glen was specific about what materials were best for each rod, the type of rod material, line material, types of finishing and how to make a complete and personalized fishing rod. Glen also gave us very good information on selecting rod kits from sportsman companies. Glen was so interesting that time ran short and some questions kept coming up after Glen had finished his presentation. An excellent program thanks to Glen Flagler. We hope to ask him back again in the near future! Our May 9th program will be a demonstration/ presentation by an excellent craftsman and turner whose topic will be “New Dimensions and Ideas for Turning Bottle Stoppers”. This should be a great program. Everyone should come! Remember, our regular monthly meetings are the second Wednesday of each month and begin at 7:00 P.M. at 55 2nd Avenue Mayfield, NY. Our next meeting there will be May 9th. Remember we have door prizes and refreshments are served. For Directions or information contact: Ray Laubenstein 863-6071 Clyde Cheney 661-5138 Gary Spencer 863-6433

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temperaments. Some were single young men looking for a job until they determined their lot in life; others were single, older men who had been loners their entire lives-some having stories to tell of their past. This latter group could hoe potatoes but weren’t always strong enough to do the heavy work of their youth. These men often needed a place to stay. Remember--no social security back then. Other hired men were married with families including Sherm Blackwood and Tom Laird who hired out to DeForest Robinson. Blackwood also worked in a sawmill and lived with his wife and nine children in DeForest’s tenant house. Laird lived with his family next door to the Robinson farm. Young Tom Laird Jr. also worked for DeForest between the time of leaving high school and entering WWII. Other men who worked on the Robinson farm were Roland Heath from New Hampshire, Louis Gagne, Scott Downing, Ken Davidson and Harold Kenyon before they progressed into a more permanent way of making a living. Frank Weaver worked only in the woods for DeForest. One day

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while driving a wedge to cut a tree Frank got a piece of steel in his eye causing him to loose the sight in that eye. The Tennant family who operated the large woodenware mill at the end of Tennantville Rd. had many hired hands. My grandfather Cecil Edwards was a farm hand at Tennants when he first met my grandmother Chitto Knowlton from Stony Creek who was a hired girl in the Tennant household. Scott Robinson had a rather unique situation with his hired man. Mert Rhodes had gotten into some trouble with the law and was required to work off his sentence on Scott’s farm-a 20th century work release program. The Edwards farm on Tennantville Rd. had its fair share of hired men. Their large herd of cows provided surplus milk that was sold to a local dairy thus demanding extra help to keep up with the chores. Bachelors Wal (Wallace) Colson, Mike Dillon and Melvin Wilcox all found lodging at the Edwards farm during the times that they worked there. Carl Deming of Northville worked and found lodging at the farm when he was fresh out of

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school. He went on to become an exceptional stone mason. Wal Colson was an excellent worker, fun-loving and very well liked. He hurriedly pitched a wagon load of hay into the barn one afternoon to beat a summer storm. Very sweaty, he stood in a drafty doorway waiting for the rain to stop. He caught a chill, then pneumonia and passed away a few days later. He left behind a twin brother, Will. A second man was usually hired to help during haying season and in the fall during corn harvest time. Sam Greene walked from his home on Tange Rd. to help with the haying and Paul Frasier came down from his home at Tennantville to spend a week grinding corn and filling silo. Erwin Edwards and young Evero Knowlton were other hired men. Evero once experienced quite a shock--electrical, that is. Evero was sitting in the Edwards kitchen during a thunder storm. Lightening came in on the phone, passed to the dog, then to Evero leaving a small brown spot on his arm. Melvin Wilcox brought bed bugs when he

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