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Show "-C By CAROL LEMON J mom, I did it myself!" When landscaping that new home, or fixing up the lot we have, it's just as easy to include shrubs, berries, and trees that will produce useful fruits as well as those that don't. Grapes can be trained to climb the fence, the corner of the house, or cover an Inviting walkway. Blueberries, Elderberries El-derberries are an attractive addition, and will fill your shelves with a wonderful supply of jams, jellies and juices. Tomatoes, beets, lettuce, and other salad crops can be grown along a walkway, as well as the petunias we generally gen-erally plant, and are just as decorative. Herbs can be grown easily, eas-ily, and are a great addition to the home garden. And haven't you noticed that the produce you pick yourself, and rush to the table or freezer has that just picked wonderful taste that no supermarket can equal? Well, happy gardening. Mine will likely have to be In a pot on the back steps( this year, but at least it will be something green and growing, hopefully enough to at least tinge the ends of my thumbs a tiny bit green. Gardening. . . I love it, always have, and its one thng I miss in our ."City living". I've seen several that are up and doing well, rows of peas, onions, radishes, radish-es, and In another week or two the warmer weather varieties va-rieties will be safely tucked away In the soil. Just waiting wait-ing for that end of May frost we always get, to come and go. Then there's no stopping stop-ping us. Sometimes it takes a crisis cri-sis to make us see the need for changing our way of life. We've certainly had some good ones this winter. The gas and ' oil shortages and price hikes; the Iranian militants mili-tants capture of our empas-sy empas-sy and its people, world and countrywide chaos is prevalent. preva-lent. Personal independence is at a premium. ' We need to do what we can to take care of our own needs, be self sufficient as far as possible. That seldom used corner of the backyard might be- come a perfect garden spot, j providing us with lots of j plenty of fresh, tasteful produce pro-duce for our table, and maybe may-be some excess for canning or storing fur use in the winter win-ter months. Self reliance is fun, as j every person who has ever pieced a quilt, built a doghouse, dog-house, harvested tomatoes, baked a cake - all from scratch will "testify. We never lose the thrill of "Look |