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Show From USU Horticulturist THE SENTINEL Thursday, April 29, 1982 Page 3 harvest of quality ... Here's flhe latest developments in gardening byAivlnR.Hamson Extension Horticulturist, Utah 8Utc University The gardening boom continues unabated in 1882 with several air and platsic tucking the sides of the just as a plastic under the soil greenhouse is warmed on holds it firmly in place. Some of these tunnels are a bright, sunny day. Black plastic, used as sold as kits. Some have , mulch, increases the soil small slits cut along the temperature, but less top of the tunnel to give soil beneath the new than clear plastic. It developments. These absorbs heat from the include use of plastic sun's rays but doesn't mulches, plastic transmit the sunlight. Vi tunnels, drip or trickle The air space between vertical the plastic and the soil irrigation, close prevents some transfer of gardening, planting, interplanting, heat to the soil. Black succession planting, plastic does have the interesting ventilation. Though temperature under the plastic increases during the day, the ventilation slits bring the nighttime temperatures to almost the same as if tho vegetables were exposed without any covering. ' Use of plastic tunnels is container gardening, and advantage of controlling new. AO the relatively with weeds that could be a landscaping combinations vegetables. problem under clear possible have not yet been fully Plastic Mulches plastic. The Intermountain A smoky colored tested. It may be possible area is characterized by plastic, intermediate to use tents providing less high altitude, generally between the clear and the ventilation early in the high light intensity, and black, could transmit season and then increase extremes of temperature some of the sunlight. It the ventilation by making from cold at night to would give a greenhouse slits with a razor blade as daytime warm in the day. Here, effect while also reducing later become temperatures gardeners could well some of the light higher. sheets of profit by using intensity, thereby Drip or Trickle either clear or black controlling some weeds Irrigation polyethylene plastic as under the plastic. Vegetables grown in mulches for such crops as Plastic Tunnels our arid climate require tomatoes, peppers, Warm season vegetables can be grown early using plastic tunnels formed over the rows. Stiff wire hoops effect that will increase placed in the soil at both the soil temperature. The sides of the row of eggplant, mulkmelons, and watermelons. The clear plastic provides a greenhouse irrigation. to try drip or trickle that can irrigation provide most efficient use of water in a garden. Keep in mind that careful plastic transmits the vegetables hold the sunlight which warms the tunnel upright while filtering provided SPRING IS HERE AND WE ARE NEAR uecrass 1 ui Cl m must be to remove particles fromt he water which could plug the emitters and restrict the peas, cucumbers, development are not attractive . tomatoes, even suitable for container and muskmelons. Slings must be provided to hold the fruit when the melons slip from the vine. This of system intensive gardening may be used in regular soil or it may be practiced onr raised beds with the soil mounded up. The beds generally successful gardening. Remember that roots grow well in moist soil. They will not grow in soil 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 combinations by the mere suggestion. To border attain plantings, as do tomatoes that appear trim and neat when grown in wire trellises. success, that most vegetables grow best in full sun. Only the leafy solid vegetables grow remember partial shade. Virtually anyone who well in has the interest may enjoy some activity in gardening. It may be a small container of herbs grown on the kitchen growing a few select wind tunnel experiments vegetables, a vertical the bumble bee is unable garden with a small to fly. This is because the variety of vegetables, or a relatively are yellow-orang- e, if a good don't put on too much. Some ' ornamental of of a variety Any garden soil is enriched peppers bear upright with addition of organic containers may be used. fruit on small plants with be brilliant colors of tlie fruit matter as These such may made mature. types as inexpensive they composted sawdust, manure, spoiled of paper products, large Generally, they are straw, leaves, or any plastic or clay pots, grown more for color other readily available buckets, tubs, or even than for culinary quality. Soil Some of them have fruit bags. plastic organic source. with enriched organic with high pungency, Remember, where soil artifical or matter amounts of hazardous to small organic large matter are used, you mixes are used in the children who might eat must provide adequate containers for growing the fruit or get the juice in their eyes to cause nitrogen to decompose it the vegetables. extreme burning. Landscaping in the soil. This is With Vegetables to Combining plantings of necessary prevent be may Vegetables vegetables with flowers nitrogen deficiency caused by the action of grown attractively in opens an interesting soil microorganisms as flower borders or as a avenue to landscaping a they break down the organic matter in the soil. well-leach- DIG INTO SPRING plant a garden. It's the season to enjoy the Close Planting spaced rows where they to culinary water often can use power tillers control cultivate the and contains small particles before the which must be filtered weeds out to prevent plugging vegetables fill the rows. These people must resort the emitters. to close planting. Some Some systems use to plastic tubing. The vegetables respond close However, planting. water is introduced into an inner plastic tube. It with crops such as sweet has small openings to corn you must be careful not to plant too close. equalize the pressure of water, ttuft pajBerto an Some excellent varieties outer tube and trickles of sweet" corn can be from there into the planted as close as one foot apart in rows garden row. Provided the to three feet water is clean, the wide and still develop two relatively inexpensive ears. These include tubing provides large and Jugar Loaf. Jubilee of uniform On All Chemicals Fertilizer S off f Lawn Seed Marked f Garden Tools --i Met L7e bi-w- application Mon.-Wt- We q. ft (Cash Only Pickup Only) BLUE ROBEJOM SOEJ) Installation Available Picked Up Delivery Available tO DAY UNLIMITED WARRANTY. IF SOD DIES OR FAILS TO GROW FOR ANY REASON, WE WILL GIVE A FULL REPLACEMENT AT NO CHARGE OR YOUR MONEY BACK 9600 So. 2700 W. ZDfl-G3MON-THUR- UU S: 9-- 5. RIVERTON & SAT: 9-- 5 FRI Vegetables such as lettuce, table carrots, suggest would the capitalizing of experience commercial orchardists who have used trickle irrigation in Utah a number of years with beets, spinach, and green onions might well be planted in small beds to the plant population in a relatively small area. This system increase Need The Room! - on flying impossible. . filtering the water. Even 1 weight, size, and shape of his body in relation to the total wingspread makes Ornamental border saturated continually planting be may with water. You must colorfully spiced with take care to provide good peppers. Peppers now drainage in each of the come in all shades of containers. Carefully color from deep green, provide adequate pale yellow, and deep red. most irrigation water, but Many may not have water flow. adequate space to take Remember that the of the popular advantage of success trickle of planting system much irrigation dependsn on the efficiency of vegetables in widely water. large productive home garden providing a bounteous bi-w- Spring Spatial IOC Reg. 13 sq.ft. I Cm Lesson of the Bumble Bee . . . . . . According to the theory of aerodynamics and as may be readily window, containers demonstrated through . JOU rYl ma a Where water is expensive, you may wish irrigation site. backdrop to landscaping good garden Lettuce, radish, spinach, of a relatively small Vertical Gardening A system of vertical small plant types of garden area. Plants such gardening is attracting tomatoes, peppers, as Premium Crop hybrid increasing interest. It eggplant, and even the broccoli are quite of attractive when grown in allows types a compact growing maximum of vegetables cucumbers may be a flower border. The from a relatively small grown in containers. foliage type of fringed area by trellising such Vegetables that require varieties of lettuce or plants as pole beans, more room for root parsley also make gardenersinlltah. vegetables for the family. No wonder gardening has become so popular in our society! High Interest Rates Prevented Us From Dulldlng Our New Store, Therefore We're Overstocked From Shipments We Couldn't Cancel And Must Sell Immediately. excellent success. They was used many years ago realize that success in France and called "clochet" gardening. requires purchasing a There, large numbers of system which adequately were small vegetables water. the filters They small follow the old adage that planted - in cultured quality is generally worth intensively kitchen gardens. 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