THE JOURNAL OF AN URBAN FARMER

By: ELEANOR GODLEY

Friday August 7: This space has got so thoroughly overgrown with snivel and whine it'll take real effort to cut through the verbiage to _its real origins. But STUFF GROWS!

come up from the seawall abaft the railway track and see. this little jungle of tomato plants and runner- beans and carrot feathers and marigolds, it’s refreshing to the eye. It makes one hope for more of these

there must be other bits of idle land that could be turned over to folks who like to grub in the ground. It has become a lovely sight. .

Wednesday, August 12: Worry a bit about watering in the sunny hours. Recall

scorch. Worry about watering after sunset, thinking of mould. Try it both ways.

Thursday, August 13: Lettuces are heading up all over the place - you can hear them creaking as they bunch

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window sill. A wonderfully exotic purple bean of the runner variety yields bags full. of purple beans. Chap in the comer trips over a Massive great cucumber, a

complete surprise. I fumble around on my kaces, i te uncover the same kind of surprise. No such fuck. .

Friday, August 14: Hot. Plan . a. seaweed-culling expedition for tater. Take a bucket to the blackberry patch. Summer.

Saturday, August 8: A friendly farmer in the north- east corner offers -some soaked peas. What the heck, | the way this year’s going, the growing season could last til November. So we bung them in along the fence, where the’ il-starred Romana beans once rustled aphidly, and follow them with a chaser of fish-fertilizer.

Sunday, August 9: Don’t” see them up yet, but there’s a long skinny sort of bean on one of the zuchinni plants. Do you think it really will?

Monday. August 10: The third sowing of radishes looks almost promising. Must give the radish-eater another tour.

Tuesday, August 11: Hot.

Vise Buys at

Taking care of skunks

Harry Hemwall is known as the “catch-all” man, including skunks.

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Hemwall ts employed by Villa Park as supenntendent of streets, superintendent of forestry, and, as he puts it, “The superintendent of anything that’s not nailed down”. Now he's been given a new but unofficial ttle: supenntendent of skunks.

Hemwall received the dubious honor because of complaints ‘about skunks in Villa Park. A 24-hour skunk “hot-line” was established to relay skink sightings to Hemwall. He tn tum con- tacts the homeowners and discusses the possibility of placing traps to catch the

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