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[Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>]

Onions are put in the ground 1st week of November here.  The huge onion 
fields around here are looking mighty pretty.  Mine are coming up a bit 
slower, but coming up non-the-less, both indoors and out.  I've read that in 
this area of NM if too cold the tops can brown, but they come right back in 
the spring... we'll see.... I have some outside, some started inside in pots 
and have reserved much of the seed to plant early spring.  We rarely get 
snow, and from what I've seen my few visits here, it seems to evaporate... 
LOL.
 
This is not only my first year here, but '09 will be my first attempt ever at 
getting a decent sized garden planted, so much I do not know yet.
 
I stopped by the organic neighbors' today.  They are elderly, and were both 
ill with the flu today.  I saw that the man is working on erecting a small 
shade house that looks like he could use some help with, so maybe some 
neighborly volunteering seems to be in order in exchange for some local 
gardening tips.  He's still got quite a bit of stuff growing, still can't 
quite see exactly what.  


--- On Mon, 12/15/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Seed shortages
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Monday, December 15, 2008, 7:59 AM

>What would you consider a "mild" winter?

I guess a mild winter has a few frosts, but no period when the ground 
freezes. Many many greens would survive that. If you have enough sunlight, 
you could overwinter almost anything with a little protection. Do you grow 
onions through the winter in the desert? Here garlic is started in the fall, 
but onions can't be put out until spring....if they are out in the winter, 
they freeze then rot in the spring.

>I read somewhere not to stake tomatos in the desert so the >leaves can
help 
>shade the flowers. And probably would have >to start them indoors to
beat 
>the heat.

I stake mine to keep them off the ground. It's wet here, and any fruit that

lays on the ground is likely to rot. I guess that's not a problem in the 
desert.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA 

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Maybe someone will enjoy, I thought it was half way interesting ; In this 3 
page story,she 'inteprets' an 18th century farm woman at "one-room, 
wood-beamed farmhouse at the Claude Moore Colonial Farm,"

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Excerpt:

A Colonial Dame
My brief, inspiring career as a historical re-enactor.

By Emily Yoffe
Posted Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008, at 7:06 AM ET

Colonial Emily "Chastity Crump" YoffeVerily, your humble fervent did in the 
guise of the Humanae Cavia Porcellus fojourn to the paft, to the year of our 
Lord 1771. Prithee, allow me to declaim of my adventure in the colony of 
Virginia, and my difcoveries. 


The reigning fantasy in many girlhoods is that of becoming a princess, 
presiding over a palace, dressing in satin, wielding a scepter. I always 
imagined myself as a settler, sitting by a cozy fireside, dressing in 
homespun, wielding knitting needles. So the tiny one-room, wood-beamed 
farmhouse at the Claude Moore Colonial Farm, a living history site set in 
1771, with its dirt floor, hearth, table, spinning wheel, and sleeping loft, 
sent me back both to this country's beginnings and my own—it was the 
perfect manifestation of my childhood dreams.


.... As a historical interpreter at the farm, the foundation of my 
transformation into an 18th-century woman was the foundation garment called 
"stays—the fabric and bone device that tied around the upper body. 

This was not the wasp-waisted, heaving-bosom look of a Scarlett O'Hara 
corset. Instead the torso in stays becomes almost cylindrical, one's front 
flattened, one's back held straight. Good posture was a matter of propriety, 
and both Colonial boys and girls were put in stays. Males were released 
around age 7, but females spent their lives in them. I expected stays to be a 
sartorial prison. Instead, I enjoyed them. They made my movements deliberate, 
my posture impeccable. I felt as if the past was swaddling me...........

http://www.slate.com/id/2206449/