Hinds County News
June 2017
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| Me in my brand new bibs! my Spring gardening uniform |
I, Gloria Christiansen, living at
my home, “Mississippi On the Plains” in Holdrege Nebraska, soon will be a
cotton grower! Yes, I will!!! Of course, my planting of cotton will not be
of the magnitude of lets say, a Mississippi Delta plantation or of a Gaddis
Farms in Hinds county…. doubt you would even describe mine as patch of cotton…I
am suspecting my cotton growing will be more in the manner of a large galvanized
tub from the farm store in size.
Y’all, at Garden Club Monday evening (April 17), our speaker was a Nebraska Master Gardener, toward the end of the
meeting he held up beautiful fluffy boll of cotton, he vowed and declared he
grew it right here in Holdrege. Well,
you know I light up like a Christmas tree! I was so excited! I had to know where I could get seed. lo and behold he had cotton seed with him
and he gave me a package! Now it is
just a matter of waiting for the ground temperatures to come up to between 65
and 70 degrees. Wish me luck! Because I
do not even live on the south side of town.
There is not a cotton gin close by….so to get my
cotton ginned, I may have to box it up, send it priority mail, to the Gaddis
McLaurin Hardware store, Main Street, Bolton, Mississippi, and ask Joyce if she
would mind stepping it across to the Bolton Gin.
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| "Eudora" The Joggling Board |
“The Delta Wedding” Joggling Board
and the tub of cotton will be the focal point of my Mississippi Garden. In addition, to the Joggling board and cotton
there will be okra and collard greens.
Love to all,
stop by if you get this way!
