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Show Now is the time of year seed catalogues produce expansive hopes. Pictures of lush vegetables, veget-ables, fruits and nuts stir the imagination, and deplete one's pocketbook. It's all good, clean fun and sometimes even productive. EXPERTS SAY the biggest mistake garden enthusiasts make is to plant too big a garden, gar-den, to fail to prepare the soil with enough mulch, fertilizer and lime. The ph factor simply indicates acid and alkaline content. If above 7, it's too alkaline and if below, too acid for most crops. Onions planted with carrots will often save the carrots from destruction. Peas must be planted very early. Corn can be interspaced with beans. A drop of mineral oil in the first corn ear silk will discourage worms. FRUIT AND nut trees need spraying several times a year usually unless one is planting plant-ing native wild cherries, plums, nuts, etc. The black walnut's trunk should be wrapped in aluminum alumi-num foil in its young years, to protect the bark. Filberts should be trimmed liberally to produce a good center stem or trunk they tend to grow into bushes. |