mine. I’m not a gardener, but I did purchase three tomato plants in early May and set them
in a sunny spot in my backyard. There they sat, and nothing I did for them worked. I
transplanted one to a container after two months and purposefully mowed down a second
one in early August. I doubt the third will fare any better. So far, I’ve not harvested a single
ripe tomato, which is a personal low in my lifetime of green thumb efforts.
I continue to despair that our area public schools start their respective school year in early
August after having ended the prior school year in late May. At best, students get about a
ten weeks’ vacation from their formal studies and teachers less than that. Economically, it
makes little sense to air-condition classrooms during the hottest month of the year, when
adjusting the length of a few of the many holidays of the school year would allow students
to return to school after Labor Day.
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in a sunny spot in my backyard. There they sat, and nothing I did for them worked. I
transplanted one to a container after two months and purposefully mowed down a second
one in early August. I doubt the third will fare any better. So far, I’ve not harvested a single
ripe tomato, which is a personal low in my lifetime of green thumb efforts.
I continue to despair that our area public schools start their respective school year in early
August after having ended the prior school year in late May. At best, students get about a
ten weeks’ vacation from their formal studies and teachers less than that. Economically, it
makes little sense to air-condition classrooms during the hottest month of the year, when
adjusting the length of a few of the many holidays of the school year would allow students
to return to school after Labor Day.
Continue reading>> or Open This Issue in MS Word
September 2010 ~ Volume 25
| The Bodock Post |
From The Arbor ~ Starting A New Publishing Year
By way of comparison, has this summer
been as hot as last winter was cold? I don’t
have the statistics to back up my claim, but I
declare it to be so and with confidence that
most folk will agree with me. Thanks to the
rainfall this summer, Pontotoc County has
stayed green longer into August than one
might expect in a more typical year.
I think my co-editor, Carl Wayne, had a
successful tomato harvest, but if not, it’s
safe to assume his was more fruitful than
been as hot as last winter was cold? I don’t
have the statistics to back up my claim, but I
declare it to be so and with confidence that
most folk will agree with me. Thanks to the
rainfall this summer, Pontotoc County has
stayed green longer into August than one
might expect in a more typical year.
I think my co-editor, Carl Wayne, had a
successful tomato harvest, but if not, it’s
safe to assume his was more fruitful than
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