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Show Millard County Progress Annual Farm Supplement, Fillmore, Utah 84631, Friday, April 16, 19S2 Page 4 New Developments In Gardening By Alvia R. Hanuoa l)lah Stale University Extension Horticaltarfet problem under clear plastic. A smoky colored plastic, between the with several interesting new intermediate developments. These include clear and the black, could some of the use of plastic mulches, plastic transmit tunnels, drip or trickle sunlight. It would give a irrigation, vertical gardening, greenhouse effect while also close planting, reducing some of the light succession planting, intensity, thereby controlling container gardening and some weeds under the plastic. landscaping with vegetables. Plastic Tunnels Plastic Mulches Warm season vegetables The Intermountain area is can be grown early using characterized by high plastic tunnels formed over altitude, generally high light the rows. Stiff wire hoops intensity, and extremes of placed in the soil at both sides temperature from cold at of the row of vegetables hold night to warm in the day. the tunnel upright while Here, gardeners could well tucking the sides of the profit by using sheets of plastic under the soil holds it either clear or black polyfirmly in place. Some of these ethylene plastic as mulches tunnels are sold as kits. Some for such crops as tomatoes, have small slits cut along the peppers, eggplant, top of the tunnel to give boom The gardening continues unabated in 1982 and mulkmelons, watermelons. The clear plastic provides a greenhouse effect that will increase the soil temperature. The plastic transmits the sunlight which warms the air and soil beneath the plastic just as a greenhouse is warmed on a bright, sunny day. Black plastic, used as mulch, increases the soil temperature, but less than clear plastic. It absorbs heal from the sun's rays but doesn't transmit the sunlight. The air space between the plastic and the soil prevents some transfer of heat to the soil. Black plastic does have the advantage of controlling weeds that could be a ventilation. Though temperature under the plastic increases during the day, the ventilation slits bring the nightime temperatures to almost the same as if the vegetables were exposed without any covering. Use of plastic tunnels is relatively new. All the possible combinations have not yet been fully tested. It may be possible to use tents providing less ventilation early in the season and then increase the ventilation by making slits with a razor blade later as daytime temperatures become higher. Drip Or Trickle Irrigation Vegetables grown in our climate arid require irrigation. Where irrigation water is expensive, you may wish to try drip or trickle irrigation that can provide most efficient use of water in a garden. Keep in mind that careful filtering must be provided to remove particles from the water which could plug the emitters and restrict the water flow. Remember that the success of trickle irrigation depends much on the efficiency of filtering the water. Even culinary water often contains small particles which must be filtered out to prevent plugging the emitters. Some system use plastic tubing. The water is introduced into an inner plastic lube. It has small openings to equalize the pressure of water that passes to an outer tube and trickles from there into the garden row. Provided the water is the relatively clean, tubing inexpensive provides uniform application of water. We would suggest capitalizing on the experience of commercial orchardists who have used trickle irrigation in Utah a number of years with excellent success. They realize success that requires purchasing a system which adequately filters the water. They follow the old adage that quality is generally worth the price in choosing a system of fillers that can be depended on to operate trouble free relatively WHY SOLAR HEAT throughout the season. Such systems are now becoming readily available to market home and gardeners gardeners in Utah. Vertical Gardening system of vertical is attractng gardening A interest. It allows a maximum of vegetables from a relatively small area by trellising such increasing growing plants as pole beans, peas, cucumber, tomatoes, and even muskmelons. Slings must be provided to hold the fruit when the melons slip from the vine. This system of intensive gardening may be used in regular soil or it may be practiced on raised beds with the soil mounded up. The beds generally are most successful if a good garden soil is enriched with addition of organic matter such as composted sawdust, manure, spoiled straw, leaves, or any other readily available organic source. Remember, where large amounts of organic matter are used, you must provide well-leach- adequate nitrogren to decompose it in the soil. This is necessary to prevent nitrogen deficiency caused by soil the of action microorganisms as they break down the organic matter in the soil. Close Planting Many may not have adequate space to take advantage of the popular system of planting vegetables in widely spaced rows where they can use power tillers to cultivate and control the weeds before the vegetables fill the rows. These people must resort to close planting. Some vegetables respond to close planting. However, with crops such as sweet corn you must be careful not to plant too close. Some excellent varieties of sweet corn can be planted as close as one fool apart in rows to three feet wide and still develop two large cars. These include Jubilee and Sugar I oaf. Vegetables such as carrots, lettuce, table beets, spinach, and green onions might well be planted in small beds to increase the plant population in a relatively small area. This system was used many years ago in France and called dochet" gardening. There, large numbers of small vegetables were planted in small intensively cultured kitchen gardens. Through experience, you may adapt this system and find optimum spacingfor your particular garden. Inlerplanting and Succession Planting To get a second crop on the same land, you may plant later vegetables in the rows of early vegetables. Later crops such as cabbage, tomatoes, Cannot Be Damaged By Freezing. Less Than V The Cost of Many Systems. No Heat Exchange Between Panels and Storage Tank. Superior Efficiency to Many Other Panels ASHRAE93-77- . The Only Heating System Recommended by U.S. Department of Energy for Funding by the National Bureau of Standards (Over 1300 Systems Tested ). Easy to Install. Can be Installed by Home Owner. Sola Roll Space Heating and Hot Water Systems. THE MOST COST-EFFECTI- SOLAR SYSTEM AVAILABLE & INSULATION JONES GLASS 400 183 N. 8 W., Fillmore, Ut. West End Of The Review Apparel Building Call Collect OPFN MON -- FRt. 8:0- 0- 5:00 743-517- j peppers. broccoli. cauliflower, and eggplant can be planted in rows of early vegetables such as lettuce, radishes, spinach, garden beets and green onions. A very little experience with intercropping will indicate the best spacing and the best lime for making the second planting. Productivity of a small be also can garden increased by using succession planting. As you harvest early vegetables, you remove the entire row. Then plant a later vegetable in the same row. This technique will not allow planting the second vegetable quite so early as with the inlerplanting. However, it is easier. The soil can be refit and any weeds present can be controlled. Container Gardening It is possible. This method is available to those whose lot is too small or there is no area of soil available for a good garden site. Lettuce, radish, spinach, small plant types of tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and even the compact types of cucumbers may be grown in containers. Vegetables that require more room for root development are not suitable for container gardening. Remember that roots grow well in moist soil. They will not grow in soil saturated continually with water. You must take care to provide good drainage in each of the containers. Carefully provide adequate irrigation water, but don't put on too much. Any of a variety of containers may be used. These may be inexpensive made of paper types products, large plastic or clay pots, buckets, tubs, or even plastic bags. Soil enriched with organic matter or artificial soil mixes are used in the containers for growing the vegetables. landscaping With Vegetables Vegetables eyes to cause extreme burning. Combining plantings of vegetables with flowers opens an interesting avenue to landscaping a relatively small garden in a very attractive useful way. Each of us may be as creative as we wish in our home gardening. Often, we are stimulated to try all sorts of interesting combination by the mere suggestion. To attain success, remember that most vegetables grow best in full sun. Only the leafy solid vegetables grow well in partial shade. Virtually anyone who has the interest may enjoy some activity in gardening. It may be a small container of herbs on the kitchen grown window, containers growing a few select vegetables, a vertical garden with a small variety of vegetables or a relatively large productive home garden providing a bounteous harvest of quality vegetables for the family. No has wonder gardening become so popular in our society! Boyd Gardner Elected To Board Of Directors For Dairy Industry may be grown attractively in flower borders or as a backdrop to landscaping of a relatively small garden area. Plants such as Premium Crop hybrid broccoli are quite attractive when grown in a flower border. The foliage type of fringed varieties of lettuce or parsley also make an attractive border plantings, as do tomatoes that appear trim and neat when grown in wire trellises. Ornamental border planting may be colorfully spiced with peppers. Peppers now come in all shades ol color Irom deep green, pale vellow. yellow otangc. and deep red. Some ornamental peppers hear upright (run on small plants with brilliant colors of the fruit as they mature. Generally, they are grown more for color than for culinary quality. Some of them have fruit with high pungency, hazardous to small children who might eat the fruit or get the juice in their A Honeyville, Utah dairy farmer has been elected to the National Board of Directors of the United Dairy Industry Association. Boyd Gardner, the former mayor of Honeville, and currently serving as chairman of the Utah Dairy Commission was elected to the UDIA Board during the Association's Annual Meeting held in March in Orlando, Florida. The board directs the operations of the dairy industry's advertising and promotion programs (American Dairy Association), nutrition education (National Dairy Council), and dairy research (Dairy Research, Inc.). The Utah is Commission Dairy affiliated with UDIA to carry out national programs. The Commission is a dairy farmer funded organization designated by the Utah State Legislature to promote, protect, and stabilize the state's dairy industry." |