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Show '"VT s Planting Adapt Greenhouse Aids Home, Garden To Type of Soil 2C lakeside Review South, Wednesday, May 4, 1983 which is primarily for aphids and other plant pests. It calls WEST BOUNTIFUL An for one half teaspoon Tobas-cavid gardner, Gary Petersen sauce, one teaspoon garlic enjoys year round gardenpowder, one fourth teaspoon ing. Last year Petersen built ceyenne pepper, one squirt a passive solar green house liquid detergent, one pint waso he would be able to get ter. Mix well. The detergent some solar heat into his home helps the product to adhere to from the greenhouse to help the plant. He said, It really cut fuel costs and grow his works; try it. own bedding plants for his Petersen has developed a outdoor garden, and start distinctively different early radishes lettuce and to- method for growing potatoes. He digs furrows six inches matoes. the deep and four inches wide greenhouse never gets below and plants five rows each 25 40 degrees in the winter. He inches long. This provides expressed some disappoint- enough potatoes for his famiment that winters in Utah ly of five all winter. He places the cut seed have had so many cloudy days which do not permit the potatoes in the furrow 10 inmost desirable solar heat ches apart. He then covers section factors. Recently, as more them with a spring-likweather has of hay right from the bale. come, the greenhouse has Petersen does not cover the been averaging 80 degrees. potatoes with dirt. He also The structure is built on the places grass clippings on south side of the Petersen them each week. To check to see if the home. The roof must have at least a 60 degree slant to col- potatoes are ready, he merelect the most sun rays year ly reaches under the hay to feel for size. Petersen said round. of the the plants grow up as usual The greenhouse has shelves lined and potatoes grow horizonwith plastic gallon jugs filled tally along the furrow. As the with water. As the temperaspuds grow, there is no guesture of the greenhouse in- sing how large they are. To creases, the water is heated. pick small potatoes and not When the sun sets, the warm disturb the plants, Petersen water in the jugs stabilize the merely reaches under the heat during the night. He hay and carefully breaks off then opens his two windows the size wanted then leaves the rest of the plant undiswhich are by into his family room and the turbed. He estimates his yearly heat enters the home. Petersen has been eating yield at 400 pounds of Pontiac radishes from his greenhouse red potatoes. They are good since the early part of April. baking and regular cooking. While Petersen does not His family enjoys fresh leaf lettuce picked fresh daily. proclaim to be an organic Petersen agreed to share gardner only, he said, I emhis organic bug spray recipe brace most of their con By IRENE JANES Review Correspondent o Your summer vegetable garden wont amount to a hill of beans," if the soil isnt adapted to the crops you wish to raise. Three types of soil most gardeners are likely to recognize are sand, clay, and loam. The disadvantage of sand is that it can lost water quickly, causing the leaching away of nutrients before plants can absorb them. On the other hand, clay soil is not easily penetrated by water, and when moisture is absorbed it may not adequately drain off. When clay is not it cracks on the surface, becoming brittle. A loamy soil, with its combination of different-sizeparticles is thought to be ideal. Porous, it allows for air circulation and good drainage. Petersen said water-logge- d two-inc- h e fairly accurate estimate of A the soil condition in your garden can be made by rubbing a sample between your fingers after a rainstorm. Sand will seem sharp, gritty, and damp. Clay will be oozy and wet. Loam will feel moist, yet crumbly to the touch. inside , d, According to Sharon cepts. He also has grow boxes in his garden but does not feel the everyday gardner can afford the recommended mixture to fill them. He mixes his own from a There are situations where a sensible landscape plan demands a fence instead of a more natural screen of evergreens or deciduous trees or shrubs. Dont worry. Nature has an answer. Vines are beautiful gifts of nature which can convert even combination of peatmoss, fertilizer, clippings etc. Petersen is an instrumentation specialist at Hill Air the most stubborn fence into an Force Base. attractive landscape feature. 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