P2 The SpokeSman • WedneSday, January 5, 2022
Gardening corner
Gardeners included a pinch of politics in their writings
BY LIZ DOUVILLE
For the Spokesman
In 1994, I saved an article
from Organic Gardening titled
“Old-Time Garden Tips, Great
ideas from the 19th and early
20th centuries”. The contribut-
ing editor was Cat Yronwode,
an avid collector of old garden-
ing books.
The magazine pages are get-
ting a little yellow around the
edges and a little tattered.
Every few years, I pull them
from my favorite garden file
and especially enjoy re-read-
ing the tips from Rev. E.P. Roe
written in 1886.
Edward Paton Roe was a
Presbyterian minister, horti-
culturist and historian. He died
at age 50 in 1888. His horticul-
tural writings came under the
heading of Play and Profit in
my Garden.
Two tips were included in
the article: “ Crow-Confus-
ing Corn Rows” and “Cannon
Fodder Seeds” Both include a
little jab at politics.
Crow-confusing corn rows
“Where corn is grown some
distance from the house, the
crows are often troublesome.
They are said to be a very sa-
gacious bird, and having once
found a row, will go up and
down it, seemingly know-
ing just where to look for the
seeds. My father once knew
an old gardener who made the
rows so crooked that the crows
could not follow them, for hav-
ing never been to Congress
they expected things to be on
the square.”
Cannon fodder seeds
“It is well to sow seed thickly,
as it must run a gauntlet of late
frosts, drought, cold rains, and
bugs innumerable, and it is
much more profitable to thin
out than to plant over. Bugs
take all they can, and my plan
is to have more than they can
destroy; just as your cool gen-
alexander raths
Gardening tools and flowers on the terrace in the garden
erals calculate they can carry
a point, and still lose three-
fourths of the men they start
with.
At the same time, like the
generals, you must kill all the
opposing bugs you can.”
In 1875, Peter Henderson
wrote his tips in Gardening for
Pleasure. The one I have of-
ten thought about is advice on
strawberry starts.
“When strawberry plants
are divided, many will fail
to grow, for the reason that
each young plant is sustained
impart by the old plant, and
when detached, feels the shock
more than a rooted cutting,
that has been growing for
weeks on its own account. For
that reason we advise all that
are intending to plant fresh
strawberry beds to prepare
their plants ahead by layering
them in pots. These pots may
be from two to three inches
in diameter, all that is neces-
sary to do is to fill these small
pots with soil and plunge or
plant the pot just to the surface
level, placing the unrooted
runner of the strawberry plant
on the top of the soil in the
flower pot, and laying a small
clod or stone upon it to keep
it in place. The runners so
treated will form plants in two
or three weeks and may be
planted out any time from Au-
gust to October.”
Tried and true advice
Adolph Krum wrote Home
Vegetable Gardening from
A-Z in 1918. Krum’s advice in
Till All You Want But — offers
advice that is still relevant 104
years later.
“To maintain soil tilth and
conserve moisture, “dig only as
much ground each day as can
be planted that day. Where the
whole garden is plowed at once
and its planting in one day
proves both impracticable and
impossible, as much ground
should be worked over lightly
with forks and spade as will be
planted that day.”
Decoding Gardening Advice
— The Science behind the 100
Most Common Recommen-
dations by Jeff Gillman and
Meleah Maynard is a fun read.
Eight chapters are divided into
three sections: Good, Debat-
able and Wrong. At the time of
writing Gillman was an asso-
ciate professor in the Depart-
ment of Horticultural Science
at the University of Minnesota.
What does the Oregon State
University Extension Service
have to say about garden myths
and research?
Somes of the age-old myths
may not be valid and knowing
which ones have the scientific
stamp of approval may change
some of your gardening prac-
tices. Source: https://extension.
oregonstate.edu/gardening/
techniques/some-garden-
myths.
LOCAL BRIEFING
Redmond man dies
in head-on crash
A 24-year-old Redmond was killed
in a head-on collision early Monday
on Highway 126 in Redmond.
Oregon State Police issued a news
release stating that around 6:03 a.m.
a Chevrolet pickup heading east
crossed into the oncoming land and
collided with a Freightliner pulling a
box trailer.
The driver of the pickup, John
Sacco, sustained fatal injuries and was
pronounced dead. The driver of the
tractor trailer, Harold Blan Jr., 59, of
Prineville was treated at the scene for
his injuries. Highway 126 was closed
for six hours. Lyndon worked as a
production assembler for Senneca
CROSSWORD
Holdings in Redmond and attended
Ridgeview High School, according to
his Facebook page.
Three Redmond residents die
in car crash on icy Highway 97
Three Redmond residents died af-
ter their vehicle spun out of control on
an icy U.S. Highway 97 and crashed
into a truck Monday evening.
The crash shut down Highway 97
north of Terrebonne for five hours,
Oregon State Police reported.
Police and emergency medical per-
sonnel responded to the crash just
before 10 p.m. Police reported Jared
Lewis, 39, from Redmond, had been
driving a Dodge Durango and lost
control of the vehicle while passing
SUDOKU
northbound on the icy highway.
The vehicle spun into the oncom-
ing lane and crashed into an Inter-
national 749 utility truck, driven by
Colton Jennings, a 26-year-old from
Bandon who was uninjured.
Lewis and his two passengers,
Kristopher Frisbee, 44, and Heather
Good, 40, died in the crash.
— Staff reports
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