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Show Millard County Progress Annual Farm Supplement, Fillmore, Utah 84631, Friday, April 16, 1982 Page 8 State Fair Gardens Start Now One way io gel some help in the garden ibis summer is io get some of the younger family members interested in 4-entering vegetables as fair in your county projects and the Utah State Fair This will not only supply the family with some fresh food for the Scott and McKendrick, assistant state August table canning, but it will enable you to take a crack at growing some prize winners. 4-- leader at USU, says you can choose between entering individual vegetables on garden display varieties. collection of He says the sire requireexhibits ments for Utah are 10 small specimens (beans, peas and limas). five 4-- 6 4-- medium-size- d specimens (beets, carrots and tomatoes) or one very large vegetable (cabbage and eggplant). McKendrick says a good garden collection display possibly include 10 green beans, five tomatoes, one cabbage, five cucumbers, five onions and five beets or would carrots. He says to remember you will have to grow a lot of vegetables to get the perfect specimens you want to use for your display. He suggest five tomato and row-fecucumber plants, of both beets and heads of carrots, of cabbage, green beans, two eggplants and 30 onions. All the information you 24-3- 4-- 6 12-1- 5 row-fe- need to begin is available at your USU County Extension All Office. entry requirements as well as helpful display tips area available in the Utah There Vegetable Manual. are also a number of other bulletins available which give exact planting times and procedures for various vegetables. 4-- Gardners Seek Aid Selecting Vegetables IV2 Schedule 40 Reg. 34$ 29$ ft. NOW 34 Schedule 40 Reg. 17$ NOW i ft. ft. 12$ ft. HOSE BIBS 34 Reg. $349 ei. $2.95 ea. NOW WE HAVE A COMPLETE LINE OF PIPE FITTINGS FOR YOUR WATER SYSTEM ROPER LUMBER CO. 95 NO. MAIN FILLMORE 743-519- 4 Are you experiencing difficulty selecting vegetable varieties for your garden this year? You may be surprised to learn that there are over 50 retail companies with seed catalogs in the United States. They offer thousands of varieties for sale. Dr. Alving R. Hamson, extension horticulturist, Utah Slate University, cautions that some company catalogs indicate performance capability beyond the capacity of the variety described. Fortunately, however, many are careful to give only factual descriptions. Realize in selecting vege- tables that you must limit your selection to varieties which require reasonably short or moderate seasons for maturing. Our Intermountain area with harsh, dry climate and extremes of temperature make this necessary. This area is sufficiently different from most other areas of the United States that varieties and hybrids adapted for growth there likely will not do well here, Hamson said. As examples, he mentioned varieties of broccoli and to cauliflower adapted growing in California. They simply would not form heads if you were to grow them in Utah. Similarly, tomatoes adapted to the southern areas of the United States mature most of their fruit later than when Utah has experienced fall frosts. Hamson advises that you seek information on how varieties and vegetable hybrids perform in the area including Idaho. Utah, Southern Western Wyoming. Eastern and Colorado. Nevada, Watch for valid comparisons made between a number of varieties grown at a given location under as uniform conditions - as possible. Also, since varieties respond differently to different weather and patterns extremes encountered in successive seasons. Hamson says you should also look for comparisons for more than one year. Such comparisons arc being made each year in vegetable trials at the USU Farm Horticultural at Farmington. It is Hamson said, exciting to see the many new varieties being garden developed and available for Seed our evaluation. companies recognize an increasing potential market for sale of garden seeds in the Intermountain area. Companies expressing an interest in providing new quality varieties for gardeners in this area include both those which have traditionally Lots of people wise to provided retail seeds for our the ways of gardening, start area and large wholesale their seedlings indoors to which have enjoy the benefits of early companies blooms. A bit of caution is provided traditionally when it comes seeds for commercial growers necessarY g' Hamson acknowledges that expenenced gardeners lend to be reluctant to change from varieties that they know from past experience to be time to move the tender seedlings outdoors to their homes. make the move until danger of frost is past. Even when days are warm, nights can turn cold. ROTO TILLER Greenbriar Heavy Duty Reg. $359 now $299 Original Merry Tiller Reg. $493 now $415 |
