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Show f THE SENTINEL Thursday, April Section 3 ITTl Tr'n HTI uu LjttU u- Are you experiencing vegetable varieties for your garden this year? You may be surprised to learn that there are over SO retail companies with seed catalogs in the United States. They offer thousands of varieties for sale. Dr. Alvin R. Hamson, extension horticulturist, Utah State University, that cautions some company catalogs indicate performance capability beyond the capacity of the variety described. Fortunately, however, many are careful to give only factual descriptions. "Realize in selecting vegetables that you must limit your selection to varieties which require reasonably short or moderate seasons for Our maturing. Intermountain area with harsh, dry climate and extremes of temperature make this necessary. . This area is sufficiently different from most other areas of pie United States that varieties and hybrids adapted for growth there likely will not do well here," Hamson said. he As examples, mentioned varieties of broccoli and cauliflower adapted to growing in California. They simply would not form heads if you were to grow them in Utah. Similarly, tomatoes adapted to the southern areas of the United States mature most of their fruit later than 'when Utah-has- . experienced fall frosts, Hamson advises that you seek information on how vegetable varieties and hybrids perform in the Intermountain area including Utah, Southern Western Idaho, Eastern Wyoming, Nevada, and Colorado. for Watch valid comparisons made exciting to see the many canning." i new garden varieties Hamson acknowledges being developed and that experienced for . our gardeners tend to be available Seed reluctant to change from evaluation. companies recognize an varieties that they know increasing potential from past experience to market for sale of garden be good until they are in seeds the convinced that Intermountain area. something else is better. Companies expressing an Yet, he says it would be a interest in providing new slow process indeed to quality varieties for evaluate the thousands of gardeners in this area available vegetable include both those which varieties by trial and have traditionally error experience, and it is provided retail seeds for simply not possible to our area and large determine the wholesale companies performance of a which have traditionally vegetable variety by provided seeds for looking at the seed. commercial growers for Most gardeners rely A successful landscape has been described as an hard and often physical work lies ahead. "All it weighed plant, I carefully, planted it in good soil of an exact heavily on the word of the sales person, the picture and information printed on the seed packet or the descriptions and pictures in the seed catalogs. The weight, and kept it for several growing years. Again, he removed and saved all the soil and weighed them both. The tree had gained 165 pounds and the soil had extension specialist suggests that additional information is available directed specifically to Utah gardeners. It is contained in the USU Extension publication EC d 313, Growing Varieties For Utah. It is available from the Bulletin Room, UMC 50 at Utah State University in Logan and from the local county extension offices. essential to plants. It's a wise man Readying for Arbor Day Riverside PTA officers Connie Burrup and Jane Erznoznick, school custodian Merlin Rhodes, and West Jordan Councilworran Betty Naylor ready ground for Friday's tree planting ceremony. The PTA and Councilwoman Naylor are donating trees to the school for the celebration. Children will also be participating in an area clean-up- . who knows his own business and a wiser man who thoroughly tends to it! I help or renting special equipment, such as a landscape is something that looks smooth and lush. To others, it's a combination of bold textures and materials. is an Texture creating included in the finished . landscape. The first step may require the use of an efficient chemical to strip the area of unwanted weeds and grass, such as Ortho Kleenup, available in either a ready-to-us- e or concentrated form. Such feature in a pleasing landscape, points out "All About Landscaping," a guide book from Ortho. Fine textures accentuate the mass and shape of the ground form while coarse textures attract the eye to the surface itself. . : . The book recommends " Do masonry and wood construction. HiRDWAttf Install "headers," the wood or masonry edges around lawns or planting beds. Install 21 sprinkler planned, and lines, such as gas or " one-gallo- Select from over 4000 plants! II ST PRICES ANYWHEREII history of Arbor Day 22-3-- 3& I. if Robert' W., Furnas to plant the area that became i .to the great commercial orchard section of eastern Nebraska. 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Bag Halts system, if any other underground entire plant, roots and all, Spread fertilizers and but don't affect the soil or soil additions, and later plantings. cultivate. Directions should be Level the area to the followed carefully. final grade. . , ..' n Next, the landscaper Plant and should rough-grad- e the larger plants. area, making any major Plant bedding plants, changes in the contours ground covers and lawns. that the plan may Clean up. Get rid of demand. This may any remaining little piles involve heavy labor and of rock, lumber and so on. the landscaper may want Hose down all the wood to consider hiring outside and concrete surfaces. use coarse or fine textures and color strong materials "sparingly and dynamically." 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Settlers Mrs Morton were nature e lovers and their mid-19t- h . "ceiling" varieties respond careful arrangement of moving west in the Nebraska claim near City century found the differently to different trees, and Nebraska Territory to be was soon planted with plastic and weather patterns shelters, and an open, treeless -- plain. trees, shrubs and flowers. extremes encountered in fiberglass even an apple even such things as These pioneers missed By 1858, successive seasons, canvas, wood and reeds. the trees of their eastern orchard graced their Hamson says you should Hedges, shrubs, vines, homes, and they also claim in the area that is also look for comparisons southeastern screens, trellises and full needed trees for now for more than one year. or partial separations windbreaks to reduce soil Nebraska. Such comparisons are made of . manmade Morton, a journalist, and for fuel, being made each year in materials such as wood, erosion of editor became building material and vegetable trials at the iron and brick may shade. Nebraska's first steel, USU Horticultural Farm go into the "walls." J. Sterling Morton of newpspaer. Through his atFarmington. he . spread Once a landscaper has Detroit and his wife were articles, Hamson said, "It is decided on apian, the among the pioneers who agricultural information and his own enthusiasm for planting trees. He realized that although the plains were treeless, they had flimate and soils favorable to tree growth. His articles talked about the trees best suited to the area and encouraged settlers to plant trees on their homesteads. .Morton also advocated Petunias tree planting by schools, I ilU civic organizations and .to.. All 6" groups of every kind. His editorials and speeches Hanging Plants "t X5" I'M encouraged men such as No" Res. future Nebraska Gov. viwvvn l outdoor stage show, About Landscaping" tractor. directed to please one suggests 12 The rest of the 12 steps steps, its owner. He starting with clearing the are as follows: audience or she plans it, designs it, site to the bare soil, Install a drain creates it, and maintains leaving only the plants system. it. To some, a successful and features that will be . i id ' ' ' ! lost 2 ounces. Where had r the great difference in plant weight come from? A plant exposed to light uses carbon dioxide and to create landscape important 1 A Plant Mystery Several hundred years ago, a German scientist washed the soil from the roots of a small, woody Use textures boldly The "floor" may between a number of of consist lawns, a varieties grown at carefully selected plants, given location under as concrete, stones, uniform conditions as gravel, tiles and bricks. The' ' possible. 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