12 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Friday, April 21, 1950 n f
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Home has many
Advantages
GARDENING BRIEFS . ,
Slug control definitely Involves
YOUR DEALER
for
LILLY'S
GOWEST
in
SALEM
VALLEY
FARM STORE
4345 Silverton Road
two phasei (1) spread a good
bait andor (2) hand-pick (use
the one which Is least offensive
to you) after dark when they
come out on the lawn. . . Chlor-
dane dusts are without question
the SAFEST to use on carrots,
etc., for root maggots because
you run no risk at all of causing
unpleasant flavors. . . For a won
derful evergreen shrub try one
of the Stranvaesias; the undulata
type (and an even dwarfier form
of it) are for low plantings, but
give the species Davidiana) lots
of room to stretch up to near-tree
form at 25-30 feet. . .
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Discovery -
LILLY'S has had
GO-WEST BAIT
for over .
20 yea
rs.
Suecauful gardeners and
farmers of the Northwest
have relied on SO-WEST
Belt for crop protection for
over 20 years. o-Weit ti
the original apple-bete bait.
It attracts and destroys gar
den pests luch at STRAW
BERRY ROOT WEEVILS,
CUTWORMS, EARWIGS,
SLUGS, and pestt of Ilka
chewing habitt. Day or
night . . . rain or thine GO
WEST BAIT It ture death to
garden robbers.
AVAILAUt AT IITTft
AHDIH ttlFUr BIALIKS
Home Builders ATTENTION!
Follow a Successful Trend
ALUMINUM and STEEL
WINDOW CASEMENTS
Beautiful Durable
Complete with wooden frames, ready to install in any
type residence.
ESTIMATES
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A question of long standing
la whether a basementless house
is preferable to one with a base
ment.
Among advantages of the
basementless house is the sav
ing In excavation and construc
tion costs. Basement stair-climbing
is avoided and the stair ac
cident hazard eliminated. Mod
ern heating units are cleaner,
quieter and more compact, and
do not demand basement hous
ing; while deep-freeze equip
ment makes old-fashioned cel
lars unnecessary.
Gardening tools, baby car
riages and storm-sash and doors
are more conveniently and safe
ly stored on the ground level
than in the basement. Family
laundry is done more satisfac
torily under good ventilation
and lighting conditions provided
on the first floor; and the labor
of carrying heavy loads up and
down stairs is saved.
Modern storage ideas, includ
ing storage walls, call for or
ganized storage space distributed
throughout the house. The at
tached heated garage can be used
as workshop, hobby room or
greenhouse. It can include stor
age space and makes a good
rainy-day playroom.
Convenient, Flexible
By adding to the length of
an average rectangular house in
order to include a ground-floor
utility room, the small base
mentless house gains flexibility
of design and convenience in
household operation, say archi-
tecural designers of the Small
Homes Council, University of
Illinois.
The basement offers the ad
vantage of ample storage not
only for all household equip
ment and appliances, but also for
out-of-season articles such as
storm windows and screens,
porch furniture and sports equip
ment, ladders, canned foods, and
the iiKe.
Basement Game Room
Recreation and sports and
game activities, important to
happy family life, can center
around the basement rumpus
room, which is a top advantage
in having a basement. Large
game tables and shuffleboard
courts can be housed without
crowding, and food can be spilled
without damage.
Engineers often argue that
heating and plumbing pipes ex
posed in the basement are easy
get at when repairs are neces
sary, while those Imbedded in
the concrete floor slab of the
basementless house are not.
The contour of the lot often
indicates whether it is practical
to build a basementless house,
and inspection by contractor and
building contractor will deter
mine this.
The head of the house had to
work only half as many hours in
1948 to pay rent for the family
dwelling as his 1914 counter
part?
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Careful Planning packs a lot of livabillty into this unusually
small house of 744 square feet, exclusively of garage. This is
design 1281 by McMurray & Chirgotis, architects, 988 Stuyve
sant Ave., Union, N. J. The house is planned for basementless
construction with a heater room located off the kitchen. Its
simple rectangular form makes for economy in building. (AP
Newsfeatures).
Take Pride in Precision
Of Your Garden Layout
Half-Price Sale!
Our big stock of one, two and three year
Fruit Trees ALL at Half Price. Apples,
Peaches, Pears, Plums, Prunes.
Buy Now While Assortment Is Complete
Knight Pearcy Nursery
375 South Liberty (3 Blocks South of State)
Open Daily 9 'til 5:30
Sunday, 12 'til 4
Garden rows should be straight and parallel for good production
distances between them, depend
ing on two factors: The need of
the crop, and the convenience of
cultivation. In rich soil vege
tables may be spaced more
closely than in poor; but when
spaced too close together, it is
difficult to cultivate between
the rows.
For crops growing twelve in
ches tall or less, rows may be
spaced 10 inches to a foot apart
and cultivated with hand tools.
For cultivation with a wheel
hoe, eighteen inches is likely to
be found a minimum distance,
since it is necessary to avoid
disturbing the roots of the vege
tables, whatever tool is used.
Taller vegetables, and those
that make vines, large bushes,
or have a sprawling habit, must
be given more distance between
rows. In small gardens, 4 feet
will usually be the maximum
distance, given only for such
crops as bush squash and cucum
bers. First decide on the crops you
will grow, which should be those
that your family likes, or ought
to like. Next, determine the
quantity of each which you will
try to produce, which should be
the amount you will eat in the
When vegetables or flowers
are grown in rows, every five
minutes you spend in making
the rows straight, parallel, and
the whole layout square and
precise will save an hour in the
work of caring for the garden
later on.
Payment In pride will be even
greater, since an orderly garden
is pleasant to work in, and to
show your neighbors. An ex
ception to the rule for straight
rows may be made In a hilly
country, where the wash of soil
may be checked by contour
planting. Here rows should run
at right angles to the slope, but
they should still be parallel,
though on rounded slopes they
will be curved.
Serpentine, slanting or un
even rows will double the work
of cultivation, and give an ap
pearance of incompetence to the
garden.
Rows are spaced with varying
Growing Plants from Seed
Can Be a Tricky Business
By CYNTHIA LOWRI
(At- N.mleituru)
Growing plants from seed
sounds as easy as rolling off
a log. Actually it's a tricky
business requiring thought, care
ful planning and attention. Fre
quently it's discouraging, too.
and the results are far from what
the book indicates it's going
to be.
Ideally, seeds get their start
in a warm, but not too warm,
and moist spot and the more you
can make that spot act like
greenhouse, the easier it Is going
to be to achieve healthy strong
young plants to set out when the
ground is warm and frost dan
ger past.
It can he done in a sunny
window although sunny win
dows In kitchens frequently
aren't too satisfactory be
cause tiny amounts of gas are
enough to kill sensitive grow
ing things.
Good, fine garden topsoil is
adequate for seed flats. It
should be mixed with an equal
amount of sand. Germinating
seeds do not require any great
amount of food, just moisture,
good drainage and careful handling.
Almost any shallow, well put
together wooden box Is poten
tially a flat, and flower pots do
nicely, too, although they waste
space in a window.
Watering is tricky, and when
possible it should be done from
the bottom of the box. In any
event, provide for good drain
age either by breaking up flow-
pots, a layer of sphagnum
moss or good sized stones in the
bottom of the seed container.
Sow the seeds in shallow
drills not broadcast and
mark them carefully. Keep
the flats in darkness and cov
ered with newspaper until the
seeds have germinated and
then put them in the sunshine.
What happens after this de
pends entirely upon their treatment.
When the second set of leaves
appear on the tender young
plant, it's time for action. They
must be transplanted or "pricked
off" and set farther apart to
give them growing space. Some
times the seedling is too small
to be handled by the fingers
and a pencil or orange stick helps
to move them to flats. Press
the seedlings gently into the soil,
water them thoroughly and keep
them out of direct sunlight until
they have had a chance to re
cover from the shock.
Damping off. is the scourge of
seedlings, a growth encouraged
by lack of air and soil con-
TS-
The Cold Frame It gives the gardner a head start
ditions in the flat that encour
ages the retention of water.
There are lunglcides designed
to prevent damping off, and
charcoal dust sprinkled over the
surface of the seed beds helps.
Some seeds, of course, can
be started in cold frames, but
usually it Is impossible to
plant them as early outdoors
as it Is in the house. Both
the cold frame and the sunny
windows have their uses to
the gardener, for the 'earliest
annual blooms usually come
from seeds started indoors
when there Is still snow on
the ground outside.
When the seedlings have start
ed toward mature growth, and
the weather is warming up, they
should be gradually hardened
off, preparatory to being set in
their permanent places. Flats
may be set outdoors during warm
periods. The glass frame of the
cold frame may be opened on
pleasant days.
Most annuals can be started
the broad temperature zone
around mid-March tomato
seeds a couple of weeks earlier.
Meanwhile, some seeds can
be sown outdoors. Shirley
poppies and larkspur seed, for
example, make a handsome
combination broadcast togeth
er where' they are to grow. So
can spinach true spinach,
not New ealand or Tampala.
And after that's done, take a
look at the garden tools and out
doors furniture. Both probably
need attention. And while you're
painting the furniture, how about
touching up the tools with a
brilliant paint of red or yellow
so they'll be easier to find when
you've, wandered off and left
them lying in the grass? You
won't have time for such jobs
later.
Cut Back Frozen v
Shrubs Warns
Frank Doerfler
Some weeks ago articles ap
peared warning not to cut back
too soon as in previous years
the stock snapped out of it.
Doerfler's have cut their stock
back a month ago as well as
many other nurserymen.
Take a knife starting at the
top scraping the bark wherever
the cambiun layer is brown it
very likely is frozen. Usually
at the snowline where the bark
is green is where one should cut
back. Camellias may grow 2
or 3 feet the first year and should
be staked to avoid breaking over
or growing crooked. Poor ma
terial such as Japanese honey
suckle should not be used for
hedges as it is short lived and
freezes easily and is expensive
to trim.
For tall hedges permedallis
ajborvitae is good, as is box
wood which grows up to 6 feet
and is neat and easily trimmed.
I haven't experienced such a
frost in my lifetime and it may
not happen again in the next 60
years."
10,000 Americans died in fires
in 1949, and property loss from
fire was over $667,500,000?
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fresh state, plus what you will
put up for next winter.
In the case of the short-har
vest crops, plan for several
plantings (jf each, spaced so that
one-harvest will follow another
throughout the season.
Having prepared your produc
tion schedule, make a simple
plan of your garden and pro
ceed to lay It out accurately be
fore beginning to sow. This plan
should be kept through the sea
son, to guide you in second
plantings, and enable you to
note upon it errors in planning
you may have committed, and
which can be corrected another
year.
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