All things arts.
That's
what the Warren Arts
and Craft Beer Festival
on April 25th in Downtown Washington will
be all about. Original
works of art in an array
of styles, belly dancing,
live music, cloggers,
food and beer are all on
tap for this festive event.
Presented by the Washington
Business
Improvement District,
craft beer was added to
this year's event line-up!
The festival takes place
along Route 57 throughout downtown and runs
from 10am to 4pm, with
the beer tent open from
11:30am to 4pm (rain
date April 26th). The
Arts Festival is being
presented through a
grant from the Warren
County Cultural and
Heritage Commission,
among other event sponsors.
There are still some
openings for artists
wishing to sign up and
be eligible for cash
prizes. Cash prizes will
be awarded to the top
three winning artists
(original works only):
first,
second
and
peoples choice. Attend-
ees are encouraged to
vote for their favorite
artists in the people's
choice category.
This event has grown
in the past three years,
with dozens of participating artists, re-sale
vendors and participating
Washington
businesses, and more,
drawing large crowds
throughout the day.
There will be special
activities during the day,
from live music, demonstrations, horse drawn
carriage rides, a performance by the Warren
County Cloggers, belly
dancing and kids activities, including a free
craft project sponsored
by Washington Borough
Clean Communities.
In the past artists have
showcased all art styles
including painting and
pottery to jewelry and
everything in between.
There is a $15 charge
for artists with original
works and it is $25 ($35
day of show) for all
resale vendors. Vending
spots are 10 feet by10
feet. If you are interested in registering,
please
contact
the
WBID office at 908689-4800 or visit www.
[Link]. This
event has been a sell out
for the past two years.
Pre-registration
is
highly recommended.
Donations are needed
for a rummage sale to
be held April 24th
from 9am to 4pm, and
April 25th from 9am to
noon (bag sale day) at
the
Franklin
Twp.
Volunteer Fire Station,
located at 37 Second
Street in New Village.
Call Karen to arrange
drop-offs at 908-6893677.
NORWESCAP
Career and Life Transitions Center for
Women provides free
employment readiness
training. To learn more
about the services the
Career and Life Transitions Center offers,
register for their upcoming information meeting
scheduled for Thursday,
April 23rd or Thursday,
April 30th at 10am by
calling 908-835-2624.
Pre-registration
is
required.
Artisan and antique
vendors are wanted for
the Belvidere in Bloom
Summer Festival on
June 20th from 9am to
5pm in Belvidere. For
more information, visit
[Link]
or call 908-386-8707 by
April 30th.
The Pet Adoption
League is holding a
Fill-A-Truck
fundraiser on May 2nd
from 11am to 2:30pm
at Arbys on Rt. 57 in
Mansfield. Acceptable
items are new or gently
used clothing in all
sizes, shoes, blankets,
curtains, etc. in bags.
Arbys is also supporting PAL the same date
by donating 15 percent
of all proceeds between
11am and 2:30pm. For
more information, visit
[Link] or call
973-584-0095.
One
hundred percent of the
proceeds benefit homeless animals in our area.
Vendors are wanted
for the St. Jude
Knights of Columbus
3rd annual outdoor
flea market on May
9th at St. Jude Church
on Eisenhower Road in
Blairstown.
Vendor
spaces include two
parking lot spaces. For
more information, call
Tom at 201-787-5364.
Fresh, refrigerated
and frozen foods are
available to northwestern NJ residents at
reduced
prices
through the Jolin Food
Box program. The food
assistance
program
offers a variety of ordering
options,
from
breakfast-lunch-dinner
combination packs to
boxes of dinner entrees
to special packages just
for
children.
Each
month features a variety
of high-quality menu
items from seafood and
poultry to baked goods
and prepared meals.
Interested residents can
find more information
and order online with a
credit card at www.
[Link] or by
calling Project SelfSufficiency at 973-9403500. The next deadline
for placing an order is
May 12th; delivery will
be made to Project
Self-Sufficiency
on
May 23rd. For more
information, call 973940-3500, or visit proj
[Link].
Looking for an exciting, affordable vacation from May 31st
through June 6th to
benefit Haven of Hope
for Kids? Enjoy a trip
to Pigeon Forge and to
the Smoky Mountains,
complete with six live
musical productions, a
guided tour of the
Smoky Mountains, free
time in Gatlinburg and
much
more.
This
seven-day
vacation
includes travel, six
breakfasts and four
dinners. Your participation has an added benefit
of supporting the Haven
of Hope for Kids, a local
non-profit organization
that provides cost-free
country retreats for
families caring for a
child with cancer or
other life threatening
illness. For reservations,
call Gladys at 908-4599210 or 862-220-2693.
Payment in full is due at
the time of the reservation.
Hackettstown High
School classmates of
1975 are requested to
contact Cindy Mincevich at 908-637-6171 to
update their contact
information for their
40
year
reunion
planned for Memorial
Day weekend.
Deer
Valley
Sportsmens Association of Blairstown is
looking for land to
lease in the Blairstown,
Hardwick, Knowlton,
Hope, Frelinghuysen,
Stillwater or White
Twp. areas. All members belong to the
National Rifle Association and hunt-alongs are
done before new members are voted into this
association. Several of
the associations properties are semi-wild and
licensed by the State of
NJ Division of Fish and
Wildlife. They stock
phesants, partridge and
sometimes quail. All
leased property is posted
and trespassers are
vigorously prosecuted.
If you own property,
either wooded or fileds
with brushy cover, and
would like to speak with
someone about leasing
the property, please
contact Robert McDowell at 973-948-4001;
James Guild Jr. at 973-
875-9266;
Timothy
Cussen at 908-6374408; Brian Rosemeier
at 908-362-6598; or
James Craig at 908278-5149. The association is a rounded group
including
doctors,
lawyers, police, contractors, farmers, a former
director of Fish and
Game, and they are
well-known
and
respected in the Blairstown area.
Public Notice: In
accordance with the
Adequate
Notice
provision of the Open
Public Meetings Act,
please be advised that
the 2015 meeting schedule for the Warren
County Transportation
Advisory Council is as
follows: May 14th, July
9th (location TBD),
September 10th and
November
12th
at
1:30pm. Meetings will
be held in the Rutgers
Cooperative Extension
Meeting Room at the
Wayne Dumont Jr.
Adminisration Building,
located at 165 Co. Rt.
519 South in Belvidere.
Public Notice: In
accordance with the
Adequate
Notice
provision of the Open
Public Meetings Act,
please be advised that
the 2015 meeting schedule for the Warren
County Mental Health
Board is as follows:
May 19th, June 16th,
July 21st, August 18th,
September 15th, October 20th, November
17th and December 15th
at 5pm. Meetings will be
held in rooms 123A and
B at Warren County
Community
College,
located at 475 Rt. 57 in
Washington.
Happy
birthday
wishes are sent to Rene
Koehler and Ashley
Ricker who will be be
celebrating on April
24th.
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It seemed like the snow
would never melt, but the
spring peepers are starting
to sing, foretelling of
warmer days ahead. The
spring season brings so
many wonderful thingsgreen grass, flowers, and
baby wildlife, but it also
brings some less pleasant
crawling critters. One of
these is the flea.
Dormant life stages of
the flea become active
with the warmer temperatures and when the adults
start moving around, they
begin seeking out food so
they can reproduce. One
of those food sources is
the blood of your pet.
Unlike ticks, which will
feed and then leave to lay
their eggs elsewhere,
fleas will live on your pet,
continuing to feed and lay
eggs. Those eggs will
drop off into the environment- your house. They
hatch into larvae which
develop into pupae (like a
cocoon) and then into
adults to continue the
cycle.
While pets with fleas
may do some scratching,
if they have an allergy to
the fleas, the itchiness can
be very intense and the
pet can create open sores
and infections from the
scratching. Fleas are also
the vector for Bartonella
henselae, the bacteria
which causes cat-scratch
fever. When the cat
grooms herself, she will
ingest some of flea feces
and become infected. The
bacteria congregates in
the nail beds and saliva so
if the cat bites or scratches
someone, the person can
become infected. Dogs
and cats can also get
tapeworms from eating
the fleas when they
groom or chew themselves.
So, we need to keep
these pesky creatures off
of your pet. The good
news is, there are many
products we have available that are safe and
effective in controlling
fleas. The topicals, Frontline (for dogs and cats),
Revolution (mainly for
cats) and Vectra 3D (only
for dogs) have been our
first line of defense of
years and are still quite
effective in most areas.
These
are
applied
monthly and kill adult
fleas as well as controlling eggs and larvae.
We also have numerous
oral medications for flea
control. Capstar is tablet
that when given, will kill
fleas within minutes. If
only lasts for a day, so we
usually use this initially to
start getting things under
control
while
other
longer-acting medications
are taking effect. Comfortis is a chewable tablet
that will kill fleas for a
month. Both Capstar and
Comfortis are safe for
dogs and cats. The newest
treatments we have came
out last spring- they are
Nexgard and Bravecto.
Both of these products are
chewable and kill ticks as
well as fleas. Nexgard is
given once monthly and
Bravecto lasts for three
months with each dose.
These two medications
are only for use in dogs.
Another way to keep the
flea population under
control is to use an insect
growth regulator (IGR),
which prevents the eggs
and larvae from developing into adults. Sentinel, a
chewable
heartworm
preventative,
contains
milbemycin
which
controls
heartworm,
roundworms, hookworms
and whipworms and also
lufenuron which is an
IGR.
If there is a current infestation, also treating the
environment
with
frequent
vacuuming,
washing of bedding and
use of house treatments
such as sprays, will get
everything back to normal
faster. However, it is still
most important to treat all
the pets in the household.
If there are animals other
than dogs and cats, please
ask us about what is safe
and effective to use.
We customize flea
control for each household based on many
factors, so please come in
for an appointment so we
can discuss what will
work best to keep your
pets and your house fleafree this seaon.
By Crew Vice President
of
Public
Relations
Stephen Rozek
On
March
28th,
Venturing Crew 276
traveled
to
Camp
Somers to meet members of New Jersey
Search and Rescue team
to learn about Search
and Rescue.
The program started in
the
camps
Health
Lodge where we learned
about many different
pieces of search and
rescue
equipment,
search
techniques,
hazards you would
encounter while doing a
search, first aid, different types of search and
rescue teams such as
dog teams, mountain
rescue teams, dive
teams and much more!
What is special about
the NJSAR team is that
in addition to being
made up of volunteers,
their service is free.
Plus, they are not just
your basic search and
rescue team, they are
also a dog team and
mountain rescue team.
After some class time,
we headed outside to see
their trailer. What I
thought was a really
intriguing piece of
equipment was their
back board for traumatic
patients unable to walk
to safety. Instead of just
being a typical back
board with the straps
and head support, they
have a clear piece of
plastic that protects the
face of the victim. The
back board can be
detached into two pieces
so that it can be put on
two team members
backs and can be easily
hiked in to where the
situation is.
My favorite part of this
program was learning
about all of the different
things required to do
search and rescue.
This trip was great and
our crew plans on helping train their search
dogs by playing Hide
and Seek in the future.
Venturing is a youth
development program
of the Boy Scouts of
America for young men
and women who are 14
through 20 years of age.
Venturing Crew 276
meets
monthly
in
Byram Township at the
Lakeland Emergency
Squad building.
For more information,
visit [Link]
[Link].
Free Legal Expungement Process Seminar:
April 22nd, 7pm-9pm.
Project
SelfSufficiencys Warren
Co. outreach site, 35
Main St., Blairstown.
The forum will discuss
the steps necessary for
officially erasing a
defendants
criminal
record. Advance registration reqd. To register, call 973-940-3500.
Pet Adoption Leagues
5th Annual Pasta
Dinner: April 24th,
5pm-8pm.
Panther
Valley
Ecumenical
Church, 1490 Rt. 517,
Allamuchy. Take out is
also avail. FMI, visit
[Link],
email
info@[Link] or call
973-584-0095. 100% of
proceeds go toward
helping
homeless
animals in our area.
North
Warren
Regional
Interact
Clubs 7th Annual
Community
Talent
Show: April 24th,
7pm. NWRHS auditorium. Tickets sold at the
door. All Proceeds
benefit local nonprofit
[Link] and
the Todd Quinn family.
Rummage Sale: April
24th, 9am-4pm, &
April 25th, 9am-noon.
Franklin Twp. Vol. Fire
Station, 37 2nd St., New
Village Bag Sale: April
25th.
Tea & the Mad Hatter:
April
25th,
noon.
Warren Co. Library, 2
Shotwell Dr., Belvidere.
Learn the history of tea
& some of Lewis
Carols social comments
on the Victorian Age.
Proper tea-etiquette will
be discussed. Wear a hat
& receive a prize!
Reservations reqd. Call
908-475-6322 or visit
[Link].
Free
Community
Dinner Sponsored by
the 1st Presbyterian
Church of Blairstown
Mission
Ministry:
April 25th, 6pm. Bring
your favorite casserole
& enjoy each others
company. FMI, call
908-362-5254 or email
fpcb@[Link].
Tricky Tray to Benefit
St. Peter & Paul
Church: April 25th.
Doors open at 6pm,
drawing 7:30pm. Independence
Twp.
Firehouse, 24 Cemetery
Rd., Great Meadows.
FMI, call Corinne at
908-459-5929
to
reserve. 50/50 raffle,
instant-win table. Free
coffee & dessert, hot
food for sale by firemen.
Essential Skills for
Career
Success
Advancing from Job
Readiness to Career
Development:
April
30th,
8:30am-3pm.
NORWESCAP Career
& Life Transitions
Center office, Flemington. FMI & preregistration, call 908835-2624.
Free
History
&
Archaeology Careers
Seminar: April 30th,
6:30pm-8pm. Project
Self-Sufficiency,
127
Mill St., Newton. Open
to teens & adults.
Gregory Lattanzi, Asst.
Curator, Bureau of
Archaeology & Ethnography at Newark State
Museum, joined by
archivist, author &
historian Merritt Ierley
& Sussex Co. historian,
author & lecturer Wayne
McCabe.
Questions
from the audience will
be welcome. Registration reqd. FMI or to
register, call 973-9403500.
6th
Annual
Dora
Pedersen 5K: May
2nd, 8:30am. Northwest
Christian School, 92 Co.
Rd. 519 (Newton Halsey
Rd.), Newton. Packet
pickup & registration at
7am in NCS gymnasium.
Registration,
course map & complete
event info. can be found
at [Link].
Baby Prom: May 2nd,
1pm.
Warren
Co.
Library Headquarters, 2
Shotwell Dr., Belvidere.
Get decked out in styles
from any decade &
dance to sweet tunes,
make
corsages
&
boutonnieres, & pose for
photos. For toddlers thru
1st graders (& their
parents, too). Free &
open to the public.
Register
at
www.
[Link].
Pet Adoption Weekend: May 2nd & 3rd,
10am-3pm. Blairstown
Agway Pet Center. Ft.
Dr. Bethany Summers of
Blairstown
Animal
Hospital, P.A.L. cats &
kittens & more. NW
FFA bake sale & face
painting. Boy Scout
Troop 2010 doing parking & 50 flat screen TV
raffle.
Skylands Tea Party:
May 6th, 6:30pm.
Conference
Room,
Diner N. of Newton, Rt
206. Guest Speaker:
Sussex Co. Freeholder
& candidate for NJ
Assembly Gail Pheobus. All Skylands Tea
Party meetings open to
the public.
Fish & Chips Dinner:
May 7th, 7pm-9pm.
Tranquility Community
House, 4 Kennedy Rd.
(Rt. 611) at Rt. 517.
Presented by Young
Adult Group of Tranquility UMC. Eat-in or
take-out. Baked goods
will also be sold.
Advance ticket purchase
recommended.
Call
908-850-1092 or 973786-5318.
St. Jude Knights of
Columbus 3rd Annual
Outdoor Flea Market:
May 9th, 9am to 3pm.
St. Jude Church parking
lot, Eisenhower Rd.,
Blairstown. FMI, call
Tom at 201-787-5364.
Ervin Sonny Shipp
Memorial Trout Fishing Contest: May 9th,
8am-4pm. Blair Lake,
Blair Academy. $5
donation requested for
those 17-65. Prizes &
gifts.
Ervin Sonny Shipps
Memorial Service &
Concert: May 9th,
2pm-5pm. 1st Presbyterian Church of Blairstown, 1 Historic Main
St., Blairstown. A salute
to the great Patriots of
the US.
Blairstown, Knowlton
& Hope
A&P, Alpine Meats, Animal
Mansion, Ash Plumbing,
Asian Combat Arts, A-Tech,
Auto, Blair Tile, Blair Tire &
Auto, Blairstown Agway,
Blairstown
Chiropractic,
Blairstown Country Florist,
Blairstown
Municipal
Building, Blairstown Eye
Associates, Blue Ridge
Lumber,
Buckwood,
Building
Specialties,
Burgdorff,
BuzzWorks,
Caffe Nelle Cucine, Cannon
Country
Real
Estate,
Columbia Post Office,
Custom Colonial, Dales
Clocks, Dale's Market,
David Krawski Dentist,
DogHouse, Dominick Pizza,
Dr. Magalio: Dentist, Ellias
Restaurant, First Hope
Bank, Fitness Empire,
Fountain Mall Laundromat,
Frank's Pizza, Gallery 23,
Geo's Pizza, Gourmet
Gallery, Grand Rental
Station, Hair Company,
Hairs 2 You,
Historic
Blairstown Theatre, Hope
Deli, Hope Haircutters,
Imagine Computers, JD
Liquors,
John
Deere,
Kozimors
Upholstery,
Knowlton
Municipal
Building, Lakeland Bank,
Lebduska
Accounting,
Marksboro Deli, Mark D.
Nelke: DMD, Medical
Associate, Mediterranean
Diner, Napa, Nature's
Harvest, New HoHo, North
Warren Farm & Garden,
North Warren Pharmacy,
North Warren Truck Repair,
Old Stillwater General
Store, Pizza Express, PNC
Bank, Post Office (Both
Locations), Post Time Pub,
R. Keiling, Race's Farm
Market, Radio Shack,
Remax, Shell Gas Station,
Skyland Bank, Smitty's,
Sunrise, Nutrition Center,
Sun Velocity, Sunoco, The
Auto Shop, The Inn at
Millrace Pond, Tile Warehouse, Tractor Supply,
Tramontin Harley-Davidson,
US Gas, Voulas Hairway to
Heaven, Village Green,
Warren County Library,
Wells Fargo, Wilbur's Country Store, Wine & Spirits,
Woman to Woman
Belvidere
A&P, Al's Pizza, ACI Truck
Stop,
Bagel
Smith,
Belvidere Diner, Belvidere
Spa, Clucas Farm, Curves,
Dee Doo's, Dr. Amannda
Richline, Food Mart, Four
Sisters Winery, H&R Block,
Hearth Shop, Hickory
Mortgage, Little Johns
Pizza, Mediterranean Riverside Designs, Riverton Hotel
& Restaurant, Rosal Jewelers, Short Stop, Skee's Busy
Bee, Skoogy's, Steckel's
Shell, Station, Thisilldous,
Uncle Buck's Diner, US Gas,
Vincent Haircuttery & Plus,
Zack's, Zeeks
Washington
A&P, Bagelsmith, Fliegauff
Jewelers, Home Instead
Senior Care, Kaffe Kaprys,
Lost Ladies, Mediterranean
Bistro, MWC Racing, PrideN-Groom, Quick Check,
Rossi,
Second
Time
Around, Shopper Stop,
Silver Stars Bagel, Smith
Dodge, Stanley's Pizza,
Town Market, Washington
Diner, Washington Shoe
Newton
A&G Pizza, Back in Motion,
BMW Dealership, Charm,
Co. Seat, Dunkin Donuts,
Hampton Diner, Ho Hos,
HobbyTown, Holiday Inn,
Home Furniture, Warehouse, Kathy's Restaurant,
Newton
News
Stand,
Optical Center, PB&J, Quick
Check, Shop Rite, Skylands
Sport Shop, Springboard
Shoppe, Superior Shower
Doors, The Chatter Box,
VW-Audi Dealership, Weis
Hackettstown
A & P, Bachs Home Healthcare, Cozy Corner, Golden
Skillet, Hacktettstown Free
public Library, Hackettstown
Guns & Ammo, Hackettstown Sandwich Shoppe,
Hackettstown
Regional
Medical Center, Mama's
Pizza/Cafe Baci, O'Neill's
Jewelers. Prickley Pear,
Quick Check #2, Riverstar
Diner, Tranquility General
Store, Valley Bagel, Weis,
Willow Caf
Columbia
Ayers, Roses Cafe
(NAPSI)With winter
finally behind us, its
time to focus on getting
your yard prepped and
ready to enjoy! Here are
some tips that can help
make your time and
effort more productive
and rewarding.
Dont try to get everything done in just one
weekend. Make sure the
lawn has a chance to
wake up and come back
to life during the early
spring months. If you
are patient, the sun and
soil will often do much
of the prep work for
you.
Give your yard a
thorough raking before
you treat the grass or
mow for the first time.
Raking pulls up any
thatch that may have
accumulated over the
winter and highlights
any dead spots or compacted areas that need
special attention. If your
lawn is compacted,
loosen the soil so the
grass can start growing
again.
Its easier to rid your
lawn of weeds before
they have a chance to
form. Early spring is a
good time to apply
herbicides to prevent the
weeds from developing.
Low spots in a lawn
can cause poor drainage,
lead to poor growing
conditions for grass and
make
mowing
a
challenge. Use a shovel
to cut away areas that
are raised and fill in
spaces
that
are
depressed.
Using the right tools
for various lawn care
projects
can
pay
dividends, particularly
when it comes to getting
the job done right the
first time.
Start your springcleaning tasks with a
deep clean of your deck,
siding and driveway for
an instant curb appeal
boost. The Briggs &
Stratton POWERflow+
pressure washer offers a
high-pressure option for
deep cleaning or highflow option for longerreaching and fasterrinsing cycles. It can
also be used on delicate
surfaces, such as your
patio furniture.
Its 7-in-1 nozzle with
one-handed operation
saves time and eliminates the need for
multiple trips. It even
has a detergent tank that
works to deliver power
soaping on demand and
a fold-down handle
design for compact
storage.
If your yard has an
uneven terrain, the
Troy-Bilt
Mustang
Zero-Turn Lawn Mower
is made to handle such
tasks. It has a Kohler
engine, comes with
mulching capabilities
and has an integrated
rear hitch that allows
you to use dump carts,
spreaders and other
tow-behind attachments.
You can also attach a
garden hose to quickly
and easily clean the
underside of a deck.
The Troy-Bilt FLEX,
available exclusively at
Lowes, is a whole new
approach to yard care. It
features a single-base
engine that powers four
different
attachments
including a wide-area
mower, leaf blower,
pressure washer and
snow thrower, freeing
up a lot of space in your
garage. It allows you to
easily transition from
one job to the next as
each attachment clicks
right into the base
engine.
The attachments are
sold separately so homeowners can customize
their
system.
This
allows customers to
save money and up to 60
percent
of
garage
storage space when
compared
to
the
purchase of individual,
one-use products.
For more information,
visit [Link].
Hello, fellow readers!
Last week we spoke
about the importance of
testing your soils pH
before adding supplements as lawns and
different plants require
different pH levels. John
from Bangor, PA asked
how to test his soil. Sure
you can buy a pH test
probe and there's the
tried and true soil tests
offered through your
local extension office.
But there are fun, science
project-like ways of
testing soil pH that you
and your kids will love.
Snag a cup of soil about
six inches below the
surface. Be sure the area
has not been limed or
fertilized within the past
six weeks and the sample
is free of sticks, rocks or
mulch.
Pour two cups of
distilled water (available
at the drug store) into a
pot. Dont use spring or
tap water as they will
impact pH. Chop and
add one cup of red
cabbage and bring to a
boil. Simmer for five
minutes, then allow it to
cool for a half hour.
Strain off the liquid
which should be bluish
purple showing a neutral
pH. Pour two inches into
a clean cup and add two
teaspoonful of soil. Wait
thirty minutes then check
the color. If purple or
violet, the soil pH is near
seven or neutral. Pink
means the soil is acidic.
The more acidic the soil,
the brighter the pink.
Blue or green means an
alkaline pH - the brighter
green, the more alkaline.
Theres a vinegar and
baking soda option you
can play with too. Put
two teaspoons of soil
into
two
separate
containers. Add half cup
of white vinegar to the
soil in one container. If it
fizzes, your soil is
alkaline. If no fizz, add
enough distilled water to
the other container to
make the soil muddy.
Pour half cup of baking
soda into that cup; if it
fizzes, your soil is acidic.
If neither sample fizzes,
you likely have a neutral
pH which is good. Most
plants and lawns love
neutral.
There are naysayers
who claim vinegar and
baking soda are not a
strong enough to give an
accurate result. But I say
why not have some fun
first, then spend a few
bucks on a pH soil test
kit or a pack of pH test
strips. That way you can
test your test results and
maybe poo-poo the
naysayers. As you can
see, pH testing can bring
out the kid in all of us!
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