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Show Early Planning Will Mean A More Successful Victory Garden Early planning and emphasis upon cooperative gardens will be features of the 1944 Victory Garden Gar-den program for Utah, Dr. Arvil L. Stark, Extension horticulturist at Utah State Agricultural college and chairman of the Utah victory garden committee, declared this week upon his return from attending at-tending an intermountain meeting at Denver, Colo. ''Successful gardens for next year must be planned this winter," win-ter," Dr. Stark declared. "We are recommending that gardeners plan their plots immediately to provide for corporation, buy seed as soon as it is available this month, purchase pur-chase insecticides early, and organize or-ganize to conduct cooperative garden gar-den programs. The extension service is preparing prepar-ing a revised variety list of garden gar-den products which will be available avail-able soon, along with a home garden gar-den guide for Utah, Dr. Stark said. Seed dealers have been asked to stock only those seed varieties which are recommended for Utah planting. Adequate supplies of seed will be available, he said, if gardeners plan their needs in advance ad-vance and. order early to avoid the spring rush. Experience in 1943 demonstrated the desirability of more cooperative gardens next year.' Workers in the same store, for example, will be urged to rent a plot of good farm land near their city and divide it into individual plots. This system sys-tem has proved much more effective effec-tive than individual gardening of poorly adapted city lot land, he said. The state program this year also will recommend planting of more kinds of vegetables to improve im-prove diet by variety, Dr. Stark said. Most gardeners plant only about eight to 15 kinds of vegetables, vege-tables, though from 30 to 40 kinds are available. Increases in plots of small home fruits also will be urged. The 1944 program will stress food storage more than previously, he said. Construction of small cellars cel-lars for fresh storage will be recommended, re-commended, though storage by freezing, canning and drying also will be emphasized. The storage program and a summer planting campaign will be parts of the major ma-jor objective of getting .a year's food supply produced at home," he explained. The state garden organization will attempt to avoid duplication of efforts and coordinate the Utah garden program to attain maximum maxi-mum production, Dr. Stark said. Every effort will be made to increase in-crease the number of gardens next year over the record total of I 59,190 raised in 1943. |