6— SANOV (O f« .) POST Thwr«.. July 11. 1971 (S«c 3)
Home and Garden
Water key to
good harvest
Bits and Pieces
Nasty strings
“ Turning on the sprinkler
With warmer weather and
less
frequent
ra in fa ll, for ten minutes or watering
w atering the vegetable by hand or with a spray
garden is crucial to a suc nozzle on the end of a hose
cessful harvest, according to won’t do the job,” says
the Oregon State Extension Thompson
service.
Place a coffee can where it
“ In general, established w ill catch water from the
gardens should be watered sprinkler When an inch
thoroughly every five to accumulates, you can stop
seven days,” said extension watering
agent Gray Thomas.
Frequent light waterings
D ry
topsoil
is
not
w ill cause roots to grow near
necessarily a signal to start
the sprinkler. Examine the the soil surface, making the
soil near the plants. Scrape roots more susceptible to
back the soil to get a look damage during hot, dry days
below the surface. If the or when weeding.
Early morning is the best
moisture level is within an
time to water. With less wind
inch or so of the surface,
and lower temperatures
more water is not necessary.
evaporation is kept to a
If watering is in order,
M o re o v e r,
apply at least one inch of m in im u m .
watering early in the day
w ater.
Most
garden
sprinklers deliver about one gives the foliage a chance to
quarter-inch of water each dry out before cooler
hour, so proper watering nighttime temperatures set
in, thus reducing the
requires adequate saturation
time.
possibility of plant disease
by Margaret Schmale
special writer
There's no doubt that a very talented designer must
have stayed up nights figuring out the various methods
used m opening containers found on supermarket
shelves these days There are several that have in
furiated the basic housewife, myself included, over the
years.
The oldest container opener is probably the string.
I t ’s not the most complicated around, but this simple
invention has drawn me close to the brink of nervous
disorder on many occastion.
The particular string that initiated me to a life of
agitation was tightly sealed and covered with tin foil
and paper It was on a roll of Life Savers. I t ’s a good
thing my life didn’t depend on them because I could
never find the beginning of the string I always won
dered as a kid why they even bothered wadding it up
and packing it on the top of each roll.
Then there is the thread that runs the length of a
adhesive bandage As the blood drips down my hand
and onto the bathroom rug, I repeatedly end up with a
little red thread in one hand and a hermetically sealed
adhesive bandage in the other. Even when I ’m trying
to get one unwrapped for a wailing child, the cute little
string fails to cooperate.
Every box of oatmeal is a headache. The string on
the fa m iliar container has a habit of see-sawing around
the lid leaving a shredded label with the seal still in
tact. When force is gently applied by means of a foot in
the old man s face the lid has a way of quickly
detaching itself It may take only a minute to cook, but
it takes ten minutes to open.
Bird Cage Theater
Peanut butter, pickels, catsup and most other items
in a bottle are so vacuum packed that it takes two men
and a boy to unscrew them. I have tapped, run hot
water and taken a pair of pliers to the lid of a ja r I end
up with something that shows no sign of leakage, but
would be rejected by the recycling center
Plant now for fall gardens
Vegetable gardens can be
productive for at least four
more months by planting
hardy crops now, according
to extension agent Ray
McNeilan.
Many
tasty
vegetables can be harvested
in the fall by planting in July.
Bush beans can be planted
in early July and w ill usually
produce a good crop before
frost. The growth of beans
during the warm summer
days w ill be much faster than
the early crop Warmer soils
and w arm er a ir tem
peratures speed up the rate
of growth.
Most root crops can be
seeded during July for fall
Crackers, cakes, cereal and other boxed items have
the dotted line that leads to a note which tells the
purchases to gently press and l i f t The Bionic Woman
would do well to perform such a feat!
P ill bottles have to be the epitome of clever
openings They are now child-proofed to such an extent
that a healthy person has to use all his mental and
physical prowness to remove the cap. A sick person
seeking immediate relief is out of luck. A man suf
fering from heart trouble could expire before he got his
glycerin tablet.
The latest addition to assist the public is on pop cans.
Two openings require the customer to press in one,
then the other. If th e flp ©Pyoqr finger is not lacerated
in the process, the spray from the second hole wffl
drench you.
I ’m sure glad I live in this era. How would I have
ever gotten anything open in the past?
Strawberry beds
need cleaning
The Birdcage Players performed a take off on our old
King Arthur story in a skit for the Sandy Mountain
Festival Sunday afternoon. The skit, entitled "King
Arthur’s Calamity,” delighted an enthusiastic
audience at Meinig Park.
use Beets, carrots, kohlrabi,
Cole crops thrive in late
onions, rutabega. shallots summer and can be har
and turnips all can be vested u n til the heavy
planted in July and harvest
freezes of winter. Broccoli,
can begin by late summer.
Brussels sprouts, cabbage,
Most root crops can be left in
and cauliflower can be direct
the garden through the fall
seeded in early July or
and winter and be used as
planted as transplants by
needeu. This allows use ot
late July.
the garden as a storage place
The garden plot is a
for root vegetables.
Many leafy crops w ill do
better in the garden with
m id -s u m m e r
p la n tin g .
Spinach w ill be less apt to gr
to seed planted now. Chard,
endive,
kale,
lettuce,
John Knapp of Sandy was
mustard greens and spinach elected as one of three
w ill supply greenery through d irectors of the Oregon
the fall and into early winter.
Junior Angus Association at
valuable part of the yard,
McNeilan said. Keep it
p roductive
by
careful
planning. Selecting the
proper crops and planting at
the correct time w ill yield
food from the fall garden to
help lower the food bill in fall
and winter.
Knapp elected
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BENEFITS ALL...
THE BUTCHER, THE BAKER,
THE CANDLESTICK M AKER
the organization's annual
meeting earlier this month
Knapp is a 1978 graduate of
Sandy Union High School.
W hen
J u n e - b e a r in g ot row.
strawberries are no longer
Established
strawberry
producing, the strawberry plants should be fertilized
beds should be cleaned up.
only once a year — in July or
“ It is important to remove August — to get good fruit
old
and
dead
plant bud formation for the next
m a te ria l,” according to year.
Oregon State U n ive rsity
I f this year’s plants had
extension
agent
Gray excessive foliage growth and
Thomas.
poor fru it production, fer
The clean-up can be done tilizing in the spring could
by hand, or with a rotary have been the cause
mower set at the proper
June-bearing va rietie s
height. (Set the mower so it (Marshall, Northwest, Hood,
cuts just above the crown of Shuksan, Ranier) bear fruit
the plant.)
only in late spring or sum
Remove any leftove r mer. They are distinguished
strawberries, especially if from everbearers (Quinault,
they are rotted or damaged, Gem, Ogallala. Rockhill),
as they are a potential source which produce two crops, one
of disease.
in June and another in late*
In late July, apply a summer of fall.
complete fertilizer, such as 5-
Everbearing strawberries
10-10 or 6-20-20, at a rate of do not need to be tended to
one-half cup for each ten feet for now.
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