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Show Vegetable List Suggested For Utah Planting This is not the year for trying those new, highly-colored, super-special super-special novelties you see in the seed catalogs. This season, let's plant the old standbys and be sure," suggests Dr. Arvil L. Stark, extension horticulturist at the Utah State Agricultural College Extension Service. Success in growing a garden isn't "luck", Dr. Stark observes; it's the result of planning. Victory Vic-tory gardeners should plan to buy good seeds and plants of desirable desir-able varieties just as carefully as they plan the other garden operations. op-erations. "How many," he asks, "have been guilty of going to the neighborhood store and saying, 'I want 10 cents' worth of carrot seeds', or 'I want two dozen cabbage cab-bage plants? Then, about August, you've heard complaints about tough, stringy beans, poor quality quali-ty corn, or yellow-infested cabbage." cab-bage." "The Utah Agricultural Experiment Ex-periment Station has tested most of the leading varieties of vegetables vege-tables and has made the results public. Why not profit by their experiments and learn to ask for your vegetable seeds and plants by variety names," suggests sug-gests Dr. Stark. Following is a list of vegetables and the varieties recommended for planting in Utah as soon as the soil is dry enough to begin seeding; broccoli, green sprouting; sprout-ing; cabbage, golden acre, Copenhagen Copen-hagen market and Danish ball head; Chinese cabbage, Wong Hok; onions, crystal wax, white r.reen, white Portugal and sweet Spanish; parsley, moss cured; peas, I.axton's progress and Thomas Tho-mas Laxfon; radishes, early scarlet globe, early .scarlet turnip, sparkler and white icicle; rutabaga, ruta-baga, American purple top; spinach, spin-ach, long standing bloomsdale; and turnips, purple top white globe. Vegetable varieties that will withstand a light frost, but are better planted a little later than the first group Include: beets, Crosby's Kgyptlan and Detroit dark red; carrots, ml cored chanfenay, 1 m p c r afor anil Morse's bounchlng; cauliflower snowball; celery, Cornell and Utah; endive, green curled; lettuce, let-tuce, black seeded Simpson, (Irand Hnplds and Imperial No. 14; parsnips, hollow crown; potatoes, po-tatoes, Irish cobbler, bliss triumph, tri-umph, Idaho rural and russet; salsify, mammoth sandwich Island; and swIss chard, lucullus. |