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that they can fool the berries by altering their soil with rotten sawdust, peat moss and sulfur, all ingredients that make it colder. They fertilize with cottonseed meal and keep the little bushes moist throughout the winter.
Down below the house on a sunny slope, asparagus spears are beginning to peek through the warm dirt. There are 150 of these, a special plant developed by Rutgers University and grown from seed for the Abells by a Frederick County Extension agent. This summer Richard and Joyce will plant 500 more asparagus, completing the third crop of their planned pick-your-own business that will eventually occupy their spring and late summer months.
In between, the summer vegetables will keep them busy. Joyce, the former seedling destroyer, has been researching plant combinations
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