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Show Lakeside Review South, Wednesday, May 4, 1983 Landmark Yard By IRENE JANES Review Correspondent WEST BOUNTIFUL 'Don't Trim Grass Too Short' Adorns W. Bountiful Home Mini-Par- k Fred home. Dougherty insists that he has never reduced to paper any plans for the yard. It is a meticulously arranged "series of arrangements. Each year has brought added advancements and new displays. He also enlisted the help of his sister Peggy and nephews Jake and Matthew Heidrich on the project. Dougherty said, one day I just began to dig; I had no real KAYSVILLE means damp grass all night, which can allow fungus infecAllen Jacobs of Mitchells tions to occur. Nursery advises home An established lawn should gardeners. have 1 inches of water per Close cutting means shallow week, said Jacobs. root systems because 95 percent I put a can in the lawn and of all food taken by grass is time the watering to see how absorbed by the blades. When long it takes to fill it to lYz turf is cut down to the soil line, inches, said nurseryman John the root system become weak. McDerrmott. Watering should be done to Letting the grass clippings saturate the soil, not done in fall puts humus back into the added Jacobs. light sprinkling, soil, he said. If you have just planted or Watering should be done in have new lawn it sould not be the morning. Evening watering allowed to dry out. X2 i a.& f & 9$ ; & to -- fWho Said Solar Couldnt Be Beautiful ? ' C' 2 ft" n V fy to f everyone. Dougherty has expanded his pond and a small red bridge crosses the pond to the rear section of the yard. This can be seen from the street. Dougherty is a cook by profession and enjoys working with i his nephew Jake Heidrich, training him how to keep up a project of this magnitude. They A VARIETY of are often seen working in the yard. plants and unusual planting areas keep Fred and nephew Jake Heidrich busy nearly all Dougherty (left) VW year-roun- d. No one told Mr & Mr Rodney Ford Not only is their new home unique, beoutitui and spacious but it maximizes the use of todays technology tor energy efficiency Vou ore welcome to see for yourself o better approach to home comfort. Open house daily 6 p m. except Sunday 1286 E Northridge Or.. Bountiful (Approx. 900 No.) 1 Built by Swanson Cons. Co. 292-610- 0 'Mosfer Gardener7 Offers Tips NORTH SALT LAKE Growing things comes easy to Leo Mabey, a resident of North Salt Lake and a master gardener. He gained that designation by taking classes from the Utah State University extension service, and is a very friendly and personable man six-ye- ar who thoroughly enjoys his work. Children Can Learn Gardening Children love to plant gardens and watch them grow. Children need to learn that plants are living things just as they are. A child can not see himself grow because he grows slowly, but within a few days he can see the growth of a plant. Children can learn responsibility by having their own space in the garden to plant and care for. Let the children help prepare the soil for planting then provide seeds that will be easy to plant. Teach how to make forrows and to plant the seeds, then to water and weed the garden. The children will be thrilled to see flowers blooming in their own garden or to pick their own peas or radishes to share with the family. They even have the opportunity to enter their harvest in the Davis County Fair in August. If parents need help in teach- ing their children, they may club. The start a family 4-- H extention service provides pamphlets on How to plant and How to care for a garden, Prepare Vegetables for Exhibit, and How to Test Seeds for Germination. These are for the vegetable gardener. For flower gardening projects manuals include; The planting Mabey likes to garden organically, using no chemicals. He fertilizes from a compost pile of old leaves, grass cuttings, and leftover prunings. Twice each fall he tills this compost pile into his soil and again as soon as weather permits in the spring. Mabey enjoys trying new things. He raises his own herbs for cooking along with asparagus and rhubarb. are Chrysanthemums He Mabeys specialty. grows the garden variety and enjoys visiting garden shows to puck up new ideas to help him in his work. In the fall when the grasshopper eggs are produced, Mabey will till the frost into the ground about six inches to kill the eggs. Frost also helps break up the soil, said Mabey. After cutting the lawn, Mabey takes the clippings and spreads them over his patio in the sun to dry. He then uses them to cover his newly planted carrot and lettuce seeds. Mabey likes to plant from three to five varieties of crops together so they mature at different times. A scent or odor is given off by plants and when a garden is planted in single crop, root-ton- said. For the first and second year, After the plant has roduced buds and immature fruit, cut it back to the main branch. This helps the plant to put all its efforts into growing in size before it starts to. produce good mature fruit, he said. A home remedy for growing good pepper plants is to place three packages of book matches that have been pulled apart in a hole in garden soil. Put one inch of soil over the top of the matches, then place the pepper plant into the hole with a paper collar on top. When the blossoms start coming, take teaspoon epsom salts to one gallon of water and spray on the foliage. This will help keep cut worms away, Mabey said. Now is an ideal time to take slips from your flowers for transplanting, he advised. Pull off the leaves so there are three to four inches on the main stem one-ha- For Contents All fertilizers sold are required by state law to show the product grade on the container. This is conspicuous on the product label as a series of three In ornumbers such as the these percent der represent nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium in the product. The weight of the actual fertilizer in the bag, box, or bottle (if liquid) is also listed. Thus, by multiplying the percent of the nutrient by the weight of the fertilizer, the exact amount of nutrient in the product can be easily calculated. For examples, 20 nitrogen in fifty pounds of fertilizer As equals one pound of nitrogen.ferindicated above that same tilizer might contain 5 phosphorous, this would equal pound. If there were 10 potassium in the fertilizer, this would amount to one-haone-quart- lf 1,1 3333 mixture. Place the top of the milk jug back and you have your own small greenhouse. Put these on the northwest or east side of your house for the best growing results, Mabey said. After 10 to 14 days, the plants have grown their own roots and you can transplant to a larger area. Mabey grows all the vegetables and flowers used by himself and his four married children and their families on a x garden. In his garden he grows potatoes, carrots, cantalope, squash, cucumbers, beans, tomatoes, and peas. For watering, Mabey uses a soaker hose and an overhead hose. He hand checks his soil for dryness before watering. Besides working in his yard, Mabey gives lectures on gardening. Those interested in his lectures or in having him conduct gardening classes, can contact him at 15-fo- ot 70-fo- ALL SALES FINAL CASH & CARRY GETTING READY FOR NEW MERCHANDISE SELECTED STOCK CARPETS GOOOOOOING AT OUR COST! 4.85 PRICES STARTING AT & up COME IN AND GET A BARGAIN WHILE 292-772- 0. THEY LAST! MAIN & CENTER ST. BOUNTIFUL 292-243- 8 h vMecan ALL... plants. Praying mantis and lady bugs are prized by Mabey. 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He had tive artisty in his yard. developed such expertise with Dougherty lists his father as plants, soil and arranging that his initial motivation in transhe has continued on with his forming his yard into a mini- projects. Residents in the area park. His father, Joe Dougher- have become used to strolling ty, became ill with emphasema. past the yard to see his latest When his illness worsened and improvements. his need to be near his oxygen One neighbor said she and her apparatus increased. Dougher- daughter love to see how the ty came up with the idea to plants are doing and enjoy the bring a bit of the outside world waterfall and pond in the bacof beauty to their own yard. kyard. He enlisted his fathers ideas Dougherty does not mind the and interest on the project some cars that stop in front of the five years ago. As the yard beyard to catch a glimpse. He came more beautiful through said, I dont mind if they come his sons effort, the father did not back in the yard to see it. 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