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Show I iLlie o rage ii I Revs rind Vievs Prom Uour County (Jgcnt DJot Sling a A fungus doesnt deserve such cool name, but fairy ring re- Jeff Tips for successful tomatoes that the weather is cooperating somewhat, your garden Now soil should be warm enough to keep your tomato plants happy. Tomatoes prefer warm air, warm soil and warm nights. They set fruit when it stays between 55 and 75 degrees. Your tomatoes do not need the first two months, but because of the cool wet spring, they may benefit from a light application of somefor Tomathing like Miracle-Grtoes. Tomatoes do not like too much water, especially late in the season. Too much water will delay ripening and may cause BlossoRot. They will need inm-end frequent, consistent, deep watering. The timing is soil dependent. Sandy soil will need water about every five days, while heavy, clay soils should go about 10 days. Blossom drop is caused by night temperatures that are either too hot or too cold. Sometimes it can be caused by too much nitrogen fertilizer. Lets hope the weather cooperates so we will have our usual wonderful Utah tomatoes. SELECTING THE RIGHT ANNUALS AND PERENNIALS FOR YOUR YARD NEW HOMES WITH TREES, much fertilizer after o FEW-TO-NONE- ... After you have decided upon your shrub and tree locations, it is time to think about where you want plant color to liven up the landscape. In new landscapes there is usually little shade because trees are small or nonexistent. There are more, plants that love full sun than there are plants that will tolerate shade or partial shade. For quick color nothing beats the petunia. There are so many colors and sizes of this versatile annual that you can use to create a variety of interesting focal points. cute afoouat flaky sings lf under inch," he says. If fairy ring. becomes too thick, the thatch thatch lawns Keep the layer aerating the lawn on a regular basis will help reduce it. Some lawns that are planted in heavy soils need to be core aerated two to three times a year. one-ha- fers to a turf disease, not a gang of computer hackers. Banks is actually a fungal ring Fairy effects disease that many lawns, Juab County Agent parks and ball fields, says Jerry Goodspeed, Utah State University Extension horticulturalist. Fungal diseases include mushrooms, smuts (also a cool name) and rusts. Many fungi are associated with decaying or rotting organic matter. They are one of Mother Natures ways of breaking down dead wood and herbaceous material. Fairy ring apana, Nierembergia, Phlox, Poppears as dark green grass growpy, Portulaca, Salvia, Verbena, in a circular pattern, he exZinnia and on and on.... Just ing As they decompose the plains. have fun and make your yard dead matter, fungi convert the colorful. into nitrogen, raw material ESTABLISHED YARDS which greens the lawn up around WITH TREES the fungi. Mushrooms are norAs your trees mature, the mally associated with the ring of plantings of perennials or the dark grass. Just outside the dark annuals that you have always ring the grass sometimes turns planted in the same area, may brown and becomes thin. The soil not be doing as well as in the is compacted as the fungi moves past. The problem might be that through it, making it difficult for shade has taken over your sun- water to penetrate the soil. The ny flower beds. It night be time life cycle of fairy ring fungus is to renovate your beds and look most of fungi, Goodspeed at planting some shade loving typical adds. It survives in the thatch flowers and shrubs. and soil throughout the winter. There are not as many choices The dormant fungi becomes acfor shade, but what there are can tive in the cool, wet spring and be very showy. to grow outward Some interesting foliage plants continues the summer and into throughout that top our list are Hosta, which the fall. Mushrooms appear in has many leaf textures and col- the area after heavy rains or or variations; Astilbe, has a nice the turf is heavily watered. when flower that blooms in spring and Fairy ring mushrooms feed on a lacy leaf that resembles a fern; he Coleus has green to red vegeta- decaying organic matter, where often They appear tion with interesting variations; says. a tree has been removed, or if look in nice ferns really hardy there is some decaying wood or your shady areas and comple- an old, thick thatch layer in the ment other shade loving plants. turf. These dark green rings vary The favorite flowering shade from one to ten feet. They in size plant is Impatiens. They come in look like a full circle, a semiall colors and love the shade. may circle or as just fragments of a Pansies are a nice spring bloomcircle." The real trick to controling plant that will do nicely unling fairy ring is simply keeping til it gets really hot. Begonias of out the yard in the first it colwill give you a good show of Be ceror from white to pink to orange place, Goodspeed says. to all remove tree tain wood, and perform best in shade or parlimbs or branches, old trunks tial shade. If you have an area that needs and discarded building materials some color, but is a poor plant- from the turf area before tilling, and sodding. These can ing area, consider using color seeding be a source for the beginning of bowls and These can be By Wednesday, June 30, 1999 Nephi, Utah ILunes-eto- s Fourth of July ignites busy travel for Utah Utahns are blasting off in numbers for the Fourth of AAA Utah reportweekend, July near-recor- d ed today. An estimated 37.4 million Americans nearly one in seven are expected to venture at least 100 miles from home over the Independence Day weekend, according to AAAs survey. Its a three-da- y weekend, schools are out, and we have a strong economy," said Rolayne Fairclough, AAA Utah spokesperson. These factors add up to make it the busiest Fourth of July holiday for travel in 13 years. About 87 percent of travelers will go by auto. The remainder will go by air, train, bus or ship, according to AAAs survey. The most popular destinations for Utah motorists will be Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, south- ern Utah national parks, the northern Utah mountains, Jack-so- n Hole, and Lake Powell. Those taking extended road trip or flying are traveling to Southern California, Las Vegas and the Pacific Northwest. Motorists will find Utah gas prices about 9 cents higher than last June. The statewide average of $1.25 is 11 cents higher than the national average. Of those staying overnight, 46 percent will lodge in a hotel or motel and 37 percent plan on staying with friends or relatives. Six percent will camp or be in a recreational vehicle and 6 percent will stay in a condo or cabin. Two percent will sleep aboard a boat ship and 2 percent will arrange other accommodations. 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BRING THEM ALL! good potting mix and they will need to be watered daily and fer- sun-lovin- themselves, he says. Be patient. The ring should become less of a problem and slowly fade. In extreme cases, the affected area can be dug up to a depth of 12 to 18 inches deep, removatIf fairy ring has already ing at least two feet around the tacked your lawn, there are a perimeter of the ring. Then, recouple of cultural practices that place the soil and plant new sod This approach is a litmay help either mask or elimi- or and may be more extreme tle he the nate problem, explains. worth." is it work than fertilizer Applying nitrogen There are a couple of products around the area and throughout the lawn helps disguise the prob- on the market that are registered lem. All the grass is then dark for fairy ring control, "Goodspeed green and lush, not just the area says. My experience is that they are generally a waste of money. around the fairy ring. Heavily aerating Hie affected I have never seen good results area reduces the compaction from a fungicide treatment. caused by fairy ring and allows There are folks who swear by more water to penetrate the soil their home remedies, he adds. surface, Goodspeed says. After Some of these treatments that aerating the area, water deeply have had limited success include by soaking, if possible. This helps dish soap, soft hand soap, bleach keep the grass from drying out and other cleaning solutions. and turning brown outside the They probably wont work; however, you probably will have the fairy ring. Most fairy rings are only cleanest grass in the present for one to four or five range. more care than others. The planting medium should be a tilized weekly with a mild years and eventually outgrow I pager pager 329-858- 6 |