| Show garden specialist offers good advice to gardeners dr arvil stark state extension horticulture specialist offered valuable information to gardeners in practically every community of summit and mor morgan moran an counties during a garden tour held last week he was assisted by rhea hurst home demonstration agent both national nati and state leaders are advising plant bigger and better gardens than ever before leave no idle land if you can use it for a home garden dr stark advised how we might do this some of his suggestions were 1 know what varieties of seed you want when you go to buy and accept no just as good substitutes for they seldom pay As a result of 25 years experimentation a detailed list of suitable varieties of vegetables is printed in a bulletin entitled the farm and home vegetable garden by dr A L wilson A copy may be obtained by writing miss hurst or by calling at the extension office 2 if you have noxious weeds in your garden pulling Is the most ffrost successful 3 plant seed 4 expand garden varieties beyond the faithful peas beans carrots onions and radish 5 plant seed of the storage varieties at a time when they will be just mature in time to store 6 carrots beets turnips and rutabagas should be stored in atmosphere mo sphere practically saturated with moisture and where the ture Is about 32 degrees 7 potatoes should be stored at about 40 degiles degi ees squash requires a cool dry place slated shelves in a basement or garage are best 8 clip all old canes out of your raspberries rasp berries as toon loon as they ore through bearing if you seen the garden of ben brown at youve missed something very worthwhile would that we had many more gardeners just like him |
