March 28, 1985 - Back in the GardenPage 18 The Suffolk Times March 28, 1985
Back in the Garden
By PAUL STOUTENBURGH
About this time of year we usually
get out and poke around in the garden.
It is a pretty sad looking place after a
winter of abuse. Yet, if you can read
the signs, one can change the disorder
into a projected plan for the coming
year. Perhaps I'll change my rows into
longer ones rather than the short ones
of last year. It will make it easier to
weed. Then there are the strawberries
-- they'll have to come out after picking
this year. They have served us well but
they are getting sparce and overgrown.
Along with this casual survey I'm re-
minded by the tall dead stalks lying on
the ground of a hidden potential at their
base, the Jerusalem artichokes. After
a long winter of being trapped in the
deep freeze, they'll taste good just eaten
raw or cut up in a salad. So out comes
the old shovel, a bit rusty from non -use.
An old bucket, and into the garden I go
to dig them out.
Every gardener should have a corner
for these morsels as they can be eaten
any time after the first frost, whenever
you can get a shovel in the ground.
They are one plant that needs little at-
tention.
To add to our early spring delights,
a good friend of mine gave us some
parsnips he dug from his garden. They,
too, like the artichokes lie all winter
beneath the mulch and soil and are dug
fresh to eat. How sweet they were,
boiled first and then sliced and sauteed
slightly in a little butter. Mmmmmmm.
Other good friends passed along some
of their delightful leeks that had win-
tered over. The outside skin was peeled
off leaving lush green and white stalks
to be used in leek and potato soup,
another of spring's rare treats.
The nice part of this giving and tak-
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ing is that we also pass to each other
seeds and tubers so each can grow his
own. This year my garden will have
parsnips, which it never had before,
while others will be planting artichokes
and raspberries -- our contribution.
Cedar Is a Natural
This utilization of what the land of-
fers brings me to another subject I've
always wanted to get people to ap-
preciate: the use of our native cedar for
landscaping. It's all well -- and often
preferred -- to use the exotics, but many
of these require special treatment and
care whereas the native red cedar seems
to flourish without anything more than
minimal care in transplanting.
Proof of this use of native cedar was
the digging of cedars by a nurseryman
just this past week. East of Riverhead
there is a large open lot on Route 25
that once was farmed. There, small
cedars started to grow just as they do
in any lot left alone.
Actually, this process of wild trees
and bushes taking over the land after
it has been left fallow is called succes-
sion, and one of the first trees to start
this process is the cedar. The locust is
another. They are both fast growing and
require lots of sunlight. Which type
takes over depends on which seeds are
dropped by birds. If they are in a cedar
area and the conditions are just right
for sprouting, we'll have cedars. And if
the locust seed is dropped at the correct
time, a young locust will sprout up.
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Later oak . trees will join the cedars or
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Red cedar wood has that special
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trellises were often made out of cedar
limbs. Their arty shapes made them
something of a specialty, and it took a
special person to assemble these orna-
mental rails and fences. They, like so
many things, have passed and I'm not
quite sure that even if we wanted to
build one we'd find the skilled person
or the wood to do it today.
Years ago -- and still in a few places "
today -- cedar trees were used as Christ-
mas trees. I know many a farmer on
the East End who has kept his eye on
a particular- shaped cedar "up lot" in
anticipation of a coming Christmas. My
Dad used to tell me that the church he
used to go to always had a big cedar
tree at Christmastime. I myself have .
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often gathered the boughs of cedar trees
for wreaths and decorations during this
festive time.
I'm told that the berries can be used
for seasoning in cooking meats. Surely
they have a special aroma that would
go with cooking. They also say that the
berries are used in the flavoring of gin
-- and right there I'll stop.
To all the uses of the red cedar tree
we have to add one last and probably
the most important one: its berries as
a source of wild bird food.
Cedar is found throughout our area
and therefore is available to the wildlife
during those. difficult times of winter.
Even after the berries are gone, the tree
still serves the wildlife as nesting sites.
What more can you ask of a tree?
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