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Show (mill front the iinrtlcn Five-ye- ar winners reeeive Irees II. Toloni ly Tribune Garden Editor JUST IN TIME for Arbor Day (April 24) planting, trees will be given to the r continuous award winners in the Civic Beautification Awards program Purpose of the program, sponsored by The Salt Lake Tribune with the cooperation of the Utah State University extension services, the Utah Associated Garden Clubs and the Utah Association of Nurserymen, is to encourage landscape improvement throughout the state. r To be a continuous award winner, the individual has to win a state plaque on his project and then keep the project up for the next four years. Presenting the trees with The Salt Lake Tribune are Lon Clayton and Keith Fredenckson of the Western Garden Center. Receiving trees are: Virgil and Helen C. Marsh, Luella B. Hanson and Herbert Hanson, Dorothy Wagner, Clarks Car Service No. 1, Cobble Creek Apts., Mr. and Mrs. Junius Black, all of Salt Lake City; Town of Orderville, Roosevelt City, Maurice Blotter, Bountiful; Duane Thurgood, Syracuse; Worth and Nancy Sorenson, Loa; Mr. and Mrs. C. A. White, Torrey and Sam Matsumura, Roy, Utah. WHY DONT YOU join with us in making our state a more beautiful place in which to live? Select a project and enter it in the 1981 Civic Beautification Awards Program. It can be anything from a private garden to a community wide cleanup and landscaping project. In fact, there are 13 different classifications to enter. They are: Class A garden club projects; Class B1 civic and service clubs ; B2 commercial church; Cl landscaping; B3 governmental; B4 private gardens, professionally designed; C2 D private gardens, community beautification and cleanup; El junior landscaping and gardening; E2 junior landscaping and ranch and farm gardening group; E3 improvement; E4 neighborhood improvement; E5 tree plantings. Entry blanks may be obtained from the Utah State University extension services. The Salt Lake Tribune 13 five-yea- five-yea- ; Keith Frederickson and Ed Platt select trees for five-yea- r in the Civic Beautification Awards program. library, 143 S. Main, the Garden Center in Sugar House Park, from garden club presidents or from your USU county agents or area horticulturists. The Utah State University Extension Services has a slide presentation with sound which is available to groups which are planning landscape improvement programs. Just write to the extension services. Salt Lake area office, 444 S. 3rd West in Salt Lake City and request the slide presentation. Tell them the date you wish to have it also give an alternate date if possible. DEADLINE FOR entries is July 31, 1981. Regional judging will be the week of Aug. 10th, with state judging scheduled for week of Aug. 24th. The Salt Lake Tribune will present plaques to the state winners with certificates of merit going to the district winners. Continuous improvement bars will be presented to those who have won state plaques and keep improving their landscaping. If you are involved in a community landscape improvement program you will want to try for the three valuable awards given by the Utah Association of Nurserymen. They will give a $400 tree planting to the community with the most entries in the over 3,000 population class with a similar award to the continuous award winners community with the most entries in the under 3,000 population class. Another such award will go to the community, who in the opinion of the judges has accomplished the most in a years period of time in cleanup and landscape improvement. Join with us and all the citizens of the state in making Utah a more beautiful place to live and raise our families. Fill in the entry blanks and mail it today. Civic Beautification Awards Entry Blank Fill in the indicated information and mail before July 31 to: Civic Beautification Program. The Salt Lake Tribune, P.O. Box 867, Salt Lake City, Utah 84110. Name of Entry Where Located Type of Project Enter in Class Project Entered by Address Tiie plnnt doctor Signature of owner, manager, or head official is required before projects on private property will be judged. Preparing your soil for the vegetable garden Is this a continuous improvement project? The Salt Year Lake by Dr. Arvil L. Stark Tribune Garden Consultant EVEN THOUGH fall soil preparation is desirable it is not a common practice with most vegetable gardeners who delay spading, plowing or tilling until spring. Old timers who have had super gardens in the past need read no farther. They probably know it all already. Newcomers might read on to pick up a point or two to increase the harvest from a small vegetable patch. First clear the area of sticks and stones, kids toys, the garden hose, litter, trash and other obstacles. or some Next apply a!vut four pounds of other similar fertilizer ratios are satisfactory providing the phosphate percentage is relatively high and the total nutrients applied are about the same. Now spread the compost pile, leaves, clippings or any other organic residues available uniformly over the plot and till or spade it under. This will put the fertilizer in the root zone of the plants. No matter what your soil, sandy, clay or loam the annual addition of organic material is essential and beneficial to plants. It improves tilth or structure, adds, life to the soil, increases water and nutrient holding capacity and eventually results in a soil that is a joy to work. All kinds of soil are improved by additions of organic matter as are the dispositions of all kinds of gardeners including grumpy old coots who should be hermits but for convenience live with tolerant, normal beings. OF COURSE YOU CAN grow a vegetable garden without the use of fertilizer or organic matter but their use will increase yields of tender, nutritious crops that mature quicker and add credibility and esteem to your olericultural endeavors. Plants need nutrients just as animals need food to survive and grow. Most garden soils contain the necessary nutrients in limited quantities that will sustain plant life, but supplementing these with commercial fertilizers that contain nitrogen, phosphate and potash usually pays off in larger harvests. Incorporating these in the soil before planting puts them in the root zone where they belong. Do this on your own before your spouse insists on it; show your complete independence by acting before being told. I , I j Please try to locate the address of High Ridge Nursery Sales. 1 have no address on them. R.R., Salt Lake City. A. You didnt give the city in which the nursery is located, but perhaps a reader will know the address Q. of the firm. Q: Please tell us how to prune Raspberry bushes? M. G., Salt Lake City. A. Remove the canes after fruiting. This can be done any time after the cane has finished fruiting. New canes are produced each year and do not produce fruit until the second year. April 19, 1981 II 9 |
