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Show JBeuunoK Wednesday, June 61974 Fate? CITY Remember the ', "Sf "S' rJ&r&F'Z V't V ?Pr i?v:: tavJKV' ,'tv'A THEjCIVING SOIL r by JENNIFER GIDDINGS SHARP . POOL SANDWICHES COLD BEER Open Seven Days A Wjeek Til Closed MAIN STREET am The earth cannot be recycled. Enjoy it! Then, leave it as you found it. ALFIE This weeks Coalition Canine is Alphonso J. Diggerdogger, Will Rixeys pedigreed dalmatian who is more commonly known as Alfie. When we asked the obvious, carriages. Although he likes their company, Alfie at times seems to lack horsesense. Last summer during the fire he was observed chasing live electrical wires that Whats it all about, Alfie?, he evidently got quite a charge from this line of entertainment but, fortunately, the results were not shocking. Advancing age has left Alfie partially deaf and blind, but this has not hindered him from cruising around town. He can often be spotted visiting the various night spots that (tot Main Street. When told that his interview would be printed in the Coalition, he replied that he would believe it when he saw it in black and white. Well, thats about all there is, Alfie. told us to come up with some new material, he had heard that line a thousand times. We quickly reverted to the routine question Where were you born? Alfie was delivered of English parentage in Murray, Utah, nine years ago, and he has been with Mr. Rixey for all but three months of that time. Alfie is very fond of horses. This is understandable in light of the fact that dalmatians were originally bred as carriage dogs. They were trained to run alongside and under horse drawn fell from burning buildings. Alfie w w ww w w'wyrww w POTS & THINGS Planting Design Service Available iIMMi The weather is now warm I And then, you must have mercy think. It is safe to put in on your mate. I advise you to go tomatoes, peppers, com, beans slow in this business of wild and any other delicate plants you foods. One day John came to might be trying. You still, breakfast and spied what he however, should keep an eye on thought was a multilegged the temperature for the next creature lying on his plate with all of its feet in the air. Actually, couple of weeks. Its not inconceivable that it could snow or it was just elderberry blossoms freeze one night and your plants complete with all of their little would need some kind of cover. stems which I had dipped in batter to fry as a fritter and serve Tomato plants are sometimes quite spindly. If so, dig a deep with syrup. But try and tell John hole and plant deep enough to that. bury most of the stem. Roots will form along the stem and this will RECIPE FOR BLOSSOMS make a stronger, more bushy Gather elderberry flowers at the plant. Tomatoes like a lot of height of bloom. Remove the water when being moved, so coarse stems and dip the clusters dont spare it. Keep thinning and in a batter made of : weeding the rest of your garden. 1 cup flour If you plan your thinning of the 1 tbl sugar 1 seedlings so that you make them tsp. baking powder 2 one inch first spaced eggs apart, then later two inches, then three, etc., Vi cup milk until theyre mature, you will be able to eat the little lettuce, Fiy these clusters in deep fat (375 beet and as green plants spinach degrees) for about 4 minutes, or weed them out. until they are golden brown. you Place on paper towel, squeeze So, with the garden growing, offbeat edibles are my subject this orange juice over them, roll in week. I mentioned eating dangranulated sugar or serve with delions a couple of weeks ago, but syrup. theres more than that to munch Dont use all the blooms on a on in the wild world of plants. bush or we wont have any elderWhen you go to look for food, berries later. must use some however, you common sense. People spray This kind of thing is fun. It sides of roads, there are liver makes everybodys life influkes (xi watercress (in fact, I teresting. This is the year that I havent eaten watercress since really am going to cook stinging nettle (the stingers apparently having a course in Invertebrate d Zoology---wilwatercress is collapse and the result is supno-no in sheep counposed to be very good). Ill call especially a the dish Miners Spinach for the and there are other try), And then there are squeamish. pollutants. A weed that is now coming up beaver traps. in my garden is wild mustard. To Id been reading all of the books use it, gather only the lyreabout how great cattails were how any boy scout knew how to shaped lower leaves of the mustard (ones on the flower stalk live off all the different parts of are them. So, one day when returning very bitter) . Use quite a tot of from Peoa, I stopped when I leaves, as they shrink while boiling. Boil 30 minutes and then spied some cattails and started season with butter or bacon dripin the water puddling around trying to locate their roots. A pings and serve with vinegar or voice from the road inquiring just . pepper sauce. A fancier dish can be made by chopping the cooked what I was up to arrested my motions. Well, the owner of the greens and seasoning with chopped onions, crumbled bacon and voice, it seems, had set beaver egg. traps in the whole area where I thin slices of hard-boile- d Serve hot or cold with French was. Now, wouldnt I look cute dressing or vinegar. If you only sitting in the middle of a stream have a few uncooked leaves, they with a beaver trap on one wrist. Needless to say, I havent yet add a good spice to salads or lunch meat sandwiches. tried eating cattails. Hl If fell tfiSSB SIGN UP NOW FOR FREE PLANT CARE CLASSES Is SGudif FEATURING THE ONLY CHINESE FOOD IN TOWN! 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