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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1955)
12-Sec 3-Stt$nnn, Salem, Ore., Thur.., April 21, 1955 Skill in Seed Sowing Essential to Success of Gardening "When sowing seeds directly in the garden, the amateur should keep in mind twa points how deep to sow, and how far apart. Modern practice favors shallow sowing, the depth being determined by the size in most cases. Small seeds ere barely covered, and larger seeds placed at a depth about four times their diameter. How far apart is . not so easy to determine. If sown too thinly, the hazards of garden ' life may cause vacant spaces to be left in the row. If sown too thickly, there will be extra work thinning out plants, so those which remain have room to develop. Larger seeds, like peas and beans can be accurately spaced. Dwarf peas one inch apart will de velop sturdy plants without thin ning, and if some seeds fail to grow they will not be missed. Bush .beans usually are allowed to grow four inches apart in the row. To avoid vacant spaces sow beans in pairs, spaced four inches apart. Seldom will both seeds in a pair fail to grow. If both grow one can easily be pulled up. or let both de velop since twin plants will do as well as singles. Thinned Later Beet seed and swiss chard are large enough to be spaced pre cisely, and may be planted an inch or two apart, and thinned out Every beet seed will produce a group of plants. If you thin them just as the root is beginning to take its globular form, -the tops and tiny roots cooked together will make a delicious dish. Avoid sowing any eeds so thick' lv that they touch each other, Their roots will entangle, and it will be difficult to thin them prop erly. It may help to mix small teeds with dry sand,, before you begin to sow, using two or three times as much sand as seeds. This spreads the seed out better. Twice as Much If seed is of sub-standard germ ination, or known to be old, sow twice as much. Carrot seedlings are feeble, and often have diff i cuHy breaking through the soil "if it is at all inclined to crust. Use twice as much carrot seed if you have doubts about your soil b&ng porous enough. The surest way " to sow small seeds is to take a few in the hand, and let them fall through the fin gers into the drill which has been prepared. Get close to the ground, and with a little practice you can quickly acquire control so that the seeds will be evenly distributed, . f each sufficiently distant from the next to prevent entanglement. . Keep the seeds in line as well as you can. It .helps to let the gar den line which was used in mak ing the drill remain in place until the deeds have been dropped. .A Remember Pretty Fall Foliage ( Now Many home owners like to plant trees that will provide rich green foliage in summer and glorious reds, oranges and yellows in the fall. Evergreen trees of course will provide beautiful green col or all year from light green dur ing the Jicight of their growing season to deep green all winter. In the foliage of deciduous trees, which shed their leaves, there are two groups of coloring pigments. These are the carojktns, which provide ' yellow color; and the anthocyanins, which cause leaves to turn red. Soil fertility and the amount of water avail able also have some effect on fol iage color. Trees having gray foliage in clude the Russian olive, and some of the poplars, willows and the little-leafed linden. They turn yellow dn the fall. i Trees with red fall color in elude many of the maples, horn beams, dogwoods, oaks, sassafras, plums, and viburnums. Those with brilliant yellow fall color include some the maples, birch, redbud, beech, gingko, magnolia and ash. - Consult with your local arbor ist or tree expert for trees to give you the colors you want., A mix ture of evergreen, red and yel low provide strikingly lovely ef fects in the fall months, provid ing you have the room for a num ber of trees. v I ' t - v 1 " X I Peas are best if thinning is not needed. Therefore sow peas -I k L. i i C " - .. .L. duoui one intri cuau. rew vacancies win appear in ine row if good quality seed is used and a layer of loose soil placed on the surface, after the garden loam has been firmed around the seeds. " : i Awards Total $50,000 for 4-H Projects Don't Crowd Turnips If Quality Wanted ; Turnips do not grow well if crowded. If the young plants are! pulled up so they stand 4 inches apart in the row, in a remarkable abort time they will be large enough to use'. Beets are more easily handled than turnips when they are a little larger, and one should not "fail to try a dish of beet tops with the tiny garden menu. The beets which are left in the ground should be spaced 2 inches apart. Awards totalling $50,000 are be ing offered 4-H Club members iae the 19m National 4-p harden, tan-j shrinks, ning ana frozen roods programs. Of the half-million 4-H'ers who participate in the three projects each year; those with outstanding records will be honored on county; state, sectional and national levels; Medals will be offered to four outstanding garden j members in each county. State-winners in the program will receive trips to the National 4-H Congress in Chicago, Nov. 27-Dec. 1. The , eight top ranking 4-H'ers among the state winners 1 will get $300 college scholarships each. For the 10th consecutive vear. the tractor di vision of Allis-Chalmers is provid-j ing the awards tor garden winners. Similar county and state awards are available to canning winners. with the Kerr Glass Mfg. Corp. the donor. I In the frozen foods program. medals are provided for two coun ty winners by International Har vester. ' State winners will receive $50 U. S. Savings Bonds All-ex pense trips to the National 4-H Club Congress will be given eight sectional winners, representing all parts of the country, and six of the trip winners will be presented $300 scholarships .as national winners. Feed Lawn Early For Best Results Feeding the lawn should be one of your first garden tasks in the early i spring. When frost comes out of the ground, there is a stage in the thawing process that causes to be perforated as X ! WlVir t - 1 - I There will be few vacant spaces in row, if large seeds are sown in pairs. Here are white beans being planted in pairs about four inches apart. If the beans are the pole variety, they need to be planed a bit farther apart. , , vtm 2 " r V 1-1. - " . vtevwW 1 J-- 9t": '"VK These bean seedlings have won the first battle, by struggling through the soil to reach the sunlight. A loose one-way tp soil greatly helps in getting the garden off to a good start. Sensational Nov Fertilizer ' ' ; "NVw Improved Bohm Fertilixer,, 0 hott Remarkable Improvement in fertilizer in 40 Years Fertilize Sow for Better Lawns! 140 lbs. covers 4000 sq. ftf lawn Put up in 50-lb. bags for your ' ' cnvenience at no extra cost X-iUi I .. .1. . i X I Qnly 545 Per 100 lbs. See Onr Complete line ot i Lawn fired and Garden Supplies TREES $50 As Low As SHRUBS SO As Low As ROSES $po As Low As GLADS .50for,ysl00 These Glads Will Bloom This Year middle mm: irsery Open Every Day untirz P.M. . 4920 Silverton Road Oregon's Only Exclusive- it A good plant food applied to this "honey-combed" soil, is carried down to the grass roots more quickly than later-in-the-spring feeding. ? Perennial borders, trees and shrubs also respond to this treat ment in early springj Consult your nurseryman or garden supply dealer for the best in plant foods. Maldthion Effective on Garden Pests Continued experimentation with malathion, the multi-purpose in secticide, has uncovered new uses for this product around the gar den. Recent tests hav shown malathion effective against insects which attack lettuce, onion, spin ach, strawberries and peaches in addition to the many other pests against which this product was originally ireported to be effective. It is effective against more than 73 kinds of insects found on more than 40 different types of plants. Described by the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture as "one of the safest insecticides to handle," malathion is also a highly effec tive fly killer even against spe cies that have become resistant to other chemicals cucb as DDT. " An increasing number of insec ticide formulators are using mala thion as ' the major - ingredient. These ready-to-use products are now available ' in garden supply and hardware stores under various brand names. Space Seeds Accurately Small garden seed can rarely be sown so sparsely that thinning out excess plants can be avoided in the home vegetable garden. Large seed can be spaced ac curately, - but with small ones it is necessary to Sow more than there . is room to . mature, and jwhen they come up many must be sacrificed so that the others may have room to develop. The reason for this is the evr present risk in gardening. The moulds which destroy seeds in the ground, or the seedlings just emerging, will always take their toll. Other mishaps may occur to plants as they grow larger, so it is always well to have a few spares growing. The amateur likes a row to be filled out with no vacant spaces, and should be will ing to devote extra labor to in suring this, by doing his thinning gradually. : . i Divide primroses and plant them in semi-shade as soon as they have finished blooming. Let sweet Williams go to seed, and let the seeds fall on j the ground to i-enew the planting! Sweet Wil liams are biennial and this is the easy method to keep! them coming along. j , FOR THE j I FINEST I IN Westminister Columbia Angel RCA-Victor Capital HIGH-FIDELITY RECORDINGS IT'S fl . I. - . HI-FI RECORD SHOP 440 N. Church St " "tour Hi-Fi Center Phone 4-3289 High-Fidelity Headquarters OFFERING THE FINEST IN AMPLIFIERS ... TUNERS .. . SPEAKERS . . . TURN TABLES . . . COMPONENT PARTS . . . 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