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JANUARY 9, 2014 • FLORENCE-UNION RECORDER • B5
Resolve to do the right thing
Old seeds likely still good
Question: I’m getcheap insurance that ting garden catalogs in you’ll have fresh proCOMING UP the mail, but I just duce available when Plants for Each Season of the Year: 1:30-3:30 p.m. found a bunch of seeds you’re ready to preThursday, Jan. 9, Boone County Extension Office. left over from last serve it. It’s a real setLearn which trees, shrubs and flowers to plant for a year. Do you think they back to wait two weeks beautiful landscape during each of the four seasons. will still grow? for old seeds to germiFree. Call 859-586-6101 to register. Answer: Be sure nate in the garden, only Commercial Arborist/Landscaper/Nursery Worker your leftover seeds can to find out that you Seminar: 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 29, germinate before you have to replant. Then Boone County Extension Office. Free. Register by send in that new seed your harvest has been calling 859-586-6101, or enroll online at boone.ca.ucatalog order, or visit delayed by two weeks. ky.edu. the local garden supply If you would like to center, since win free flower and you may need to vegetable seeds by If you depend on a where the tembuy some recorrectly answering good harvest from perature will placement horticulture trivia and some major crops such plant identification range from 70-80 seeds. However, as snap beans, sweet degrees Fahrenwhen properly questions, go to corn, butternut squash heit. Viable seed stored, many www.facebook.com/ should germinate or pickling cucumbers, BooneHortNews. vegetable seeds it’s probably wise to in one to two will remain plant a mixture of new weeks. viable, or able Mike Mike Klahr is the Boone and old seeds, rather If 75 percent to germinate, Klahr County extension agent for than using only the old or more of the for three or horticulture. HORTICULTURE seed. Buying some seeds germinate more years, CONCERNS extra fresh seed is from any given including tomapacket, you know to, carrot, those seeds will be fine pumpkin, cucumber for planting in the garand cabbage. den in 2014. It’s still OK A few vegetables to use seeds if about 50 (spinach, onion, and Commitment to percent germinate sweet corn) produce Health! 2014 from a packet. Howevseeds that remain viaer, you might want to ble for less than two to “plant thicker” and use A greatt opportunity t it ffor you to kick the three years. Thus, it’s twice as many seeds as best to buy fresh seeds New Year off Right. normal at planting of these vegetables Join us for this half day seminar. time, to make up for every year or two. It’s easy to check the the lower germination 2014’s Women’s Health Event of the Year rate. If 30 percent or viability of vegetable fewer of the seeds in a This Event Sold Out Last Year Don’t Miss this one! seeds that are more packet germinate, it’s than one year old by Saturday, January 18th 8:30 am - 3 pm best to order or buy using the “rag doll At the Receptions (Donaldson Rd. Erlanger) fresh seeds. Otherwise, test.” Simply wrap you will have large We will discuss: Hormone Health, Thyroid Balance, Insulin, 10-20 seeds from each packet in a paper towel bare patches with no Weight Loss, Detoxification and Intestinal Health. plants in the garden that’s moist, but not Make your reservations today. rows. dripping wet. Roll or Call 859-449-7000 Seating is limited. fold the paper towels to Advance registration required no walk-in enclose the seeds and put towels in a sealed, air-tight plastic bag. Put a label in with the Since 1857 seed-containing paper EXPERT WATCH AND JEWELRY towels, or mark the REPAIR • FULL WATCH REPAIR outside of the plastic bag. Put the plastic bags in a warm area
Benefit dinner helps New Haven The Boone-Union Masonic Lodge No. 304 recently had its fourth annual New Haven Outreach benefit dinner. All the proceeds go directly to the less fortunate families at New Haven Elementary School in Union. After three months of planning, eight hours of cooking and four hours of serving, the lodge presented a check to New Haven guidance counselor, Kelli Mason, in the amount of $1,872.
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tive forces of fear, As you no doubt have greed, and unkindness. noticed, doing what you Properly understood, inwardly feel is best can the battle of life is an sometimes be difficult. opportunity to learn to That’s because there is discriminate between an almost continuous what is best for us, and battle going on between what we should avoid; it your negative and posiis an opportunity for us tive tendencies. to build our strength, Each of us makes a faith, and loving-kindvast numbers of deciness. sions each day, It is a training and while we may ground in which cruise through we learn to be many of them on very alert, in automatic pilot, which we choose hardly noticing to make the wiswhat we’re doing, est decisions posit is the hundreds sible. of mostly small In all the great decisions we Diane religious and make daily that philosophical shape our charac- Mason EXTENSION traditions of the ter and lives. NOTES world-we are You may, for encouraged to example, notice a make the best choices conflict going on inside between taking an invig- possible, for the good of orating walk in the fresh all. By learning to engage air versus mindlessly watching the tube as you skillfully in the battle eat the last two pieces of between positive and negative forces, you cheesecake. Or you may have a split-second deci- more frequently make wise choices, thus growsion on whether to make ing in strength, wisdom, an unnecessary critical and happiness. You also remark or to remain help to make the world a silent. At times like better, more caring these, the temptation to place for everyone. side with our lower naIn our hearts there is ture can be almost overa “still, small voice” that whelming, and it beis always there to guide comes crystal clear that us in making wise life is a battlefield and choices. Sometimes we that a war rages within just have to stop and each of us. really listen to hear it. We can’t escape the Resolve in 2014 to work challenges between our to do the right thing lower and higher natures. To be alive is to be often. on the battlefield, and if Diane Mason is county extenwe are to grow, we must sion agent for family and make wise decisions in consumer sciences at the keeping with our better Boone County Cooperative natures. We must learn Extension Service. to fight off the inevitable attacks by the nega-
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