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Show gab from the garden x prison groMmds Moom Milder inmates IEimbmIis green II. FoKom by Tnhune Garden Editor THIS IS the age of saving our resources. We are concerned with pollution cf air wilh waste of water r' ? &P?xx, Pave Johnsn, left, and Ken Tolpingmd demonstrate how ground is best prepared to get ready for cultivating a beautiful garden. advice from the garden doctor scrap doii belong ihc siarhasic eon E! web Iei ly I)r. Arvii Stark Tribune Garden Consultant ONE HUNDRED pounds diy glass lawn limpings contains almost four pounds of plant food. By same the comparison weight of barnyard manure less than one contains while mixed leaves pound, hold one and a quarter pounds. Dry clover foliage produces a total of two and three quarters pou )is of mtiogen, phosphorus, and potash per hundred pounds and dry sewage sludge ranges around nine percent of these three plant nutrients. of a bag of 4 commercial fertilizer will reveal that it contains 6 percent nitrogen, 10 percent prosphate, and 4 percept potash, all available for plant use. The formula for bluegiass lawn clippings on the same basis would be .35 0 50 2 10 as compared Analysis of 1 with 4 for the gaiden fertilizer. NO MATTER ou now put it, lawn clippings are a good source of plant food. Not only do they supply essential but nutrients, they also add organic matter to the soil as well. Some gardeners leave the clippings on the lawn. For an ordinary poor, thin lawn this is a good practice because the clippings settle dowm to the soil and decompose. a lawn do not Clippings on heavy, th-- k reach the soil and decompose, but rather are held above it by the grass and create a condition called thatch. Heavy thatch interfere with growth and development of the grass and tends to thin the turf, it is for this reason that many gardeners, who do not catch their clippings, ue a power rake to bring the FOR SALE RAILROAD TIES Gaiden 'Is' Raised Dower Beds, Curbing, Car Stops, Fence Posts, Coirals and Loadma Chutes etc f or Retaining Weills, DELIVERY AVAILABLE Salts office and yard at Freeport Center Bldg.. 12, Clearfield, Utah THSU SAT aAM.MiSPM. briNMON A & K Write: X Railroad Materials Inc. or Calls 7733a3B fnnpoet Center CIcorfSeM, Ufoh Si dead grass to the surface where it may be picked up and removed. Of course this residue is a valuable source of nutrients and mulch, as are the fresh clippings, if they are spread over exposed soil aiound shrubs, roses, flowers and other plants in the garden. It see their bage is not uncommon to city gardeners put clippings out for garcollection. This they do in spite of the fact that the hard, parched soil in the garden is screaming for organic matter and nutrients. Maybe they wojld get the message if they would put their ear to the ground and their thinking apparatus in gear. and other environmental problems. In order to survive we must be victorious in the war against pollution and environmental derav. Another problem which is not given so much attention, but is equally important, is that of the rehabilitation of man. When two such piogtams are brought together we have something that will be of great benefit to mankind. Such a program has been inaugurated at the Utah State Prison. The efforts there will be twofold. One is to landscape and beauli-f- y the prison grounds, and the other is to train the inmates who desire to learn the profession ef gardening. landscape The plan works like this. First, the inmates interested will draw a landscape plan of the grounds. They will divide the plot into different gardens. After the plans are completed, other inmates wdl be trained in the ait of landscape gardening by experts from the Utah Association of Nurserymen. These inmates will plant the grounds. Otheis wdl he trained in garden maintenance work. A number of the nurserymen have pledged to employ inmates who have been trained in this landscape gardening program upon their release. THE UTAH Associated Garden Clubs will fuinish plant materials for landscaping the prison grounds. Each club throughout fhe state has been asked to cooperate in this worthwhile donating program by trees or plants, shrubs, roses. It is the hope ot the committee that funis wdl in the fu.uie to build a greenhouse at the pnson wheie brdd'ng plants can be giO''i for use in landscaping the and wheie grounds inmates may be teamed in g r e enhouse techniques. Classes in gardening are aKo planned. Gardc'n Clubs and I11 di As-sof lation Nuiseiymcn le available aie conpeiating in spopin; nun. Diiee ting activities is Warden John Tumor for the nsoring the Utah State Prison. Elmer Knowles, past president, UAN is R. chairman. Folsom Biuce is from the UAGC. Olhers serving on ,he committee aie Mis. Robeit Mark Savage, president ; Mrs. Ted Popkins, vice president; Mis. Thon 1. Gin, Mrs. Lloyd Magar, Armond Powell and Ed Maryon, all of the UAGC. Dave Johnson, president ; Ken Tolpingrud, first vice president; Charles Smith, second vice piesakrt, UAN; and Fullmer Allied, Utah State Umveisny extension services. This is rehabilitation in its truest sense. A way in which to assist 'he often forgotten prisoner to become a useful member of society. The program will bring a new interest, that of gardening, to many at the prison. In addition, it will tram many for professional careers as landscape gardeners with the adcied incentive of possble eniploj ment upon re',ease. THE UTAH oi Associated I! -- is vnoiR TURH HEALTHY GREEIJt is a dangerous fellow anemia" (Chlorosis) killer! 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