Herald AJ^ntem 30 November '83

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Late Fall Planting Can Still Be Done

By USSY LANCE Since early spring gardening often goes awry due to cold weather and wet soil, why not experiment with late fall planting this year? Potatoes, peas, and onion sets can still be safely planted if you mulch with straw. Leave onions started from seed in the ground; they can take hard freezing without becoming damagOpen House Slated at Sr. Center

OCEAN CITY - Open house will be held at the Stainton Senior. Center, 3304 Bay Ave., 10-3 o'clock Tuesday Dec. 13. There will be a sing-along at 10:45 a.m. and blood pressure tests 1:30-3 p.m. There will also be a St. Nick-Nack Craft Table displaying the talents of the seniors. “Chicken scratching or snowflaking are strange names for a very attractive design on material,” explained Nan Hampton, assistant and craft instructor at the center. “This design is very easy for senior citizens to do and is fast becoming a very popular craft." She instructs snowflaking Wednesday at the center. "TRAPUNTA IS another strange name for an easily accomplished project that we teach at the center,” continued Hampton. “This craft gives a dimensional effect on pillows, pictures, or wall hangings." Assistance with selection of materials and making this project will be given Monday or Wednesday mornings. Honnie Novickas, another instructor at the center, will teach various macrame projects including a red-faced Santa. On Fridays for the next several weeks, she will assist in making patchwork cats with holiday designs, large decorative Christmas balls, and angels from drapery materials. Any senior citizen can participate in the free activities at the Howard Staintaon Senior Center. In addition to the crafting skills, the social programs include ballroom, line, and square dancing. Bridge and pinochle games are scheduled daily. The schedule of activities is available at the center from Katherine Schimmel, manager. Visitors are welcome to tour the center 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Monday through Friday. FOR THOSE seniors who do not have a car, a free fare bus is provided by the county transportation department. For information call 399-0055 or 886-2011. Shopping trips are also available and reservations can be made for totransportion to physicians — call 886-2011. Hampton is also collecting knitted squares to make lap covers as a community project. Participants at the center offer their 'time to make these squares. Everyone enjoys the fellowship that comes with working together.

ed. Peas will stay dormant throughout the winter and be ready to grow in the spring long before the ground can be worked. If you haven’t finished planting aH your bulbs yet don’t worry. There is still time, but don’t wait too much longer. When you do plant them make sure you • mix some bonemeal with dirt at'the bottom of the hole. Your perennials will benefit from leftover

bonemeal scratched into the soil around them. IF YOU COMPOST organic material, turn over the heap now before the ground freezes and spread the wonderful rich dirt you make around all your plants. They’ll love it! If you’re bored with the same old houseplants and you want to go buy something new, try starting a windowsill herb garden. Herbs are great

A Nuclear Film Slated

COURT HOUSE - The Jersey Cape Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament will show the movie, "What About the Russians’’, tomorrow at the County Library, Mechanic St. This 25-minute. color documentary film presents the thinking of military, scientific, and government experts on the issue of the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms

race. Some of the speakers include George Kennon, former Ambassador to Russia, William Colby, former directer of the C.I.A., Robert McNamara, former Defense Secretary, and Randall Forsberg, chairman for Defense and Disarmament studies. The public is welcome to attend

Seedlings Offered For 1984 Planting

TRENTON — Applications are now being accepted for 450,000 quality tree seedlings available from the State Bureau of Forest Management for the 1984 planting season. This is the first year that all the seedlings for the DEP’s Reforestation Program have been grown at the State Forest Tree Nursery in Jackson Township, Ocean County. Thirteen species are available, with the one and two-year-old seedlings ranging from four to 12 inches high depending on species and age. Available species include: Japanese larch; black locust; pin and red oaks; autumn olive; Japanese black, loblolly, pitch, short leaf and white pines; hybrid, (cuttings) and tulip poplars; and Norway spruce. ANY PUBLIC or private landowner in New Jersey who owns a minimum of five acres may plant the trees for reforestation or conservation purposes. Hie minimum order is for 500 trees and not less than 250 of any one species. Seedlings may not be dug, potted or sold as nursery stock for ornamental or other purposes. The price for all species is $70 per thousand, and the remittance must accompany the order. The deadline for placing an order is Feb. 1,1984. Due to the limited availability of seedlings, orders should be placed as early as possible. State Area Forester Thomas Taylor explained that the seedlings are expected to be available for pickup between March 1 and April 15 at the Jackson nursery and at six other strategically placed pickup ' points throughout the state. Taylor explained, "Not only should spring orders be placed now, but land owners be thinking of these seedlings as an investment for the future. Each year as trees increase in value, the property value increases as they grow.” For additional informa-

tion or to request an application to place an early seedling order, please contact: James E. Haase, Bureau of Forest Management, Box 8, Mays Landing, NJ 08330, 609/625-1124.

plants for container gardening because they are very adaptable and quite attractive when displayed. Best of all, you can use them. Placed in a sunny window or under artificial lighting, herbs can be grovyn all winter. There are all sorts of things that can be used as containers: clay pots, strawberry jars, coffee cans, soda pop cartons. A clever idea I have seen is hanging baskets with herb - themes. For example, a basket filled with spaghetti sauce herbs such as oregano, basil, italian parsley and garlic chives. Another - theme could be a basket of sweet potpourri containing scented geraniums, lemon thyme, and lavehdar. Growing soup herbs is a smart idea for winter cooking. Sage, English thyme, marjoram and dill are easy to grow and help to keep your kitchen smelling

fresh.

If you use artificial lighting, the lights should be on 14 to 18 hours a day. Don’t allow the foliage to grow closer than five to six inches from the laipp but keep the plants no farther than 18 inches away. Watering in the sun or artificial light is the same: don’t drown them with kindness! Stick your finger ^ inch into the soil; if it is dry, then water. (ED. NOTE: Lissy Lance of Cape May is an English major with a "strong gardening interest".)

County

by Kathleen Duffy

Library

“What’s'the matter with parents today?” As a youngster going to school, I remember going to my parents for definitions, punctuation corrections ( I was a comma sprinkler 1 ) for English paragraphs and later essays. I fondly remember my mother helping construct an African village with jtoothpick huts, but today — that’s another stqry. I am amazed at the number of parents who request information oh everything from the explorers to chemical compounds because “(Johnny or Jennifer has soccer practice and I have to do his report for him/her”. I Am not referring to an occasional happenstance here but to a trend that rivals those students who are asking for help. These same parents can often be heard complaining about the amount of homework these kids are expected to do with comments on how "you’d think that’s all they (the kids) had to do." — Now I may be oldfashioned,' but where I came from — the students did their own homework, although the more ambitious parents often corrected and thoroughly reviewed each assignment (My parents were not overly ambitious or pushy over my education, probably wisely realizing I would

rebel.)

TECHNOLOGY and the substance of modern high school classes now go beyond what was taught a mere 10 years ago The parent who thinks he/she is doing the child a favor by doing some assignments so as not to interfere with sports or social activities will be leaving them to founder when their education steps beyond the parent’s and they do not have the background to ^venable them to cope. ^ For those of you who worry about your tax — stop demanding teachers give less homework (as a child I expected the world to end before weekends without homework or Thanksgiving vacatioas without research papers) and let them do their job. They are paid to teach and reinforce that teaching with home assignments. Making youngsters choose between sports, social activities and

assignments allows them to suffer the consequences *of their decision and most, after a few embarassing incidents - in class, will endeavor to keep up with their assignments. By alLmeans bring your youngsters to .the library' to work on assignments, but then treat yourself to searching for a great novel or catch up on reading some of our magazines and leave them to struggle with the attainment of (knowledge If you greatly) miss the thrill of discovery or even have a yen to write a paper, march down to ACC and sign up for a course. Then your youngster will have to be tolerant of your homework assignments. This column reflects my own personal opinion and does not necessarily represent that of the library ad ministration or policy.

This week's menu ol meals served by the Cape May County Nutritional Project For the Elderly

Next week’s menu. Dec. 5: Ham steak' Hawaiian, candied sweeC potatoes, chopped spinach, canned peaches Dec. 6: Beef stew, peas! and carrots, boiled potatoe, fresh orange, biscuits. Dec. 7: Vegetable slup, * ham and chese sandwich, mixed salads with tomatoe/French dressings Brown Betty. Dec. 8: Oven fried liver with onion gravy: mashed potatoes, Scandinavian mixed vegetables, fresh Bartlett pear. Dec. 9: Manhattan clam chowder, baked fish filet, Tartar sauce, green beans with stewed tomatoes, cin■namon bun. All meals are served with bread or muffins, margarine and beverage. Snacks, to be delivered to the homebound with mobilemeals are Dec. 5: Sliced turkey sandwich, fresh apple, milk. Dec. 6: Liverwurst sandwich, mustard, ’ fresh Bartlett$ear, milk. Dec. 7: Pimento cheese sandwich, banana, milk. Dec. 8: Cottage cheese, lettuce leaf, crackers, pineapple tidbits, milk.

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