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Odds and Ends ,
Enthusiasm Helps. Brew
Good Gardenin00 Ideas
By ALFRED AMES, Garden Editor
Time and again I find myself going into ecstacies over
some of the most awful garden ideas. It's a situation similar to
the bride's biscuits--seemed a sweet idea while ha the making.
Figure you shouldn't belittle the results if you can't point out
where she- went wrong. Funny part of it is that the enthusiasm
over the idea is gem line a
practical suggestion at the right
time might hae made it worth-
while. -
Then again, over-doing good
ideas seems to he a real problem
confronting some of California's
'gardens during the past several
seasons. For instance, been see-
ing too many discs lately. Got a
look at a patio the other day that
is paved and walled with 'era.
Shaggy barked, 0ff*center heart-
wood, some sawed through knots
from pencil sizethrough sap-
lings to prime saw-logs.
Now, the end grain "of a well
eared for butcher's block is a
mark of professional pride; a
ohl country pavement, cohbled
with wood blocks, is an rtist's
subject and any photogenic sea
gull will tell you that atop the
sawed off end of an old tarred
piling is the perfect place to
lateen.
If you pave a walk or section
of the patio with these log sec-
tions why not fill in between
with a solid grout? Now, if this
seems like too much trouble just
be nonchalant and have a good
story to tell if the boss's wife
turns her ankle the next time
you entertain!
(?hopping Block
Saw a good old fashioned
chopping block in a barbecue set
up the other (lay, some heavy
iron fire tools completed this
picture of practical beamy. Sure,
I use charcoal or brackets most
of the time, too. Want to know
something worthwhile? Make
yonr guests sit for an hour or so
watching the gyrations of the
smokey-eyed host with his ohl
fashioned fire. Then 10 drooling
minutes of the steak smoke,
brother you've really conditioned
your guests.
Went on a garden tour once,
four out of six of the stops were
"done" by the same landscaper.
Honors were even tip between
bird-baths and sun dials as the
"center of interest" at the far
end of each "enchanting vista."
Between you and me and the gal
who wrote up that tour he is a
lets
nlighly good landscaper" and all
his clients have well done places.
Seedling h'is
(]rocery clerk at our lnarket
has the sweetest collection of
seedling iris you'd ever hope to
see, you can spend hours with
that guy and his iris and enjoy
every minute of it. A dirt walk
leads to his tool shed and a 60x
!20 rectangular lot enclosed by
a 5-foot chicken wire fence is the
extent of his landscaping. Come
to think of it we know some
folks who aren't the least bit
interested in the great outdoors.
They live in a little white
stucco house, and hire a kid to
cut the two by four lawn and
pull the dead blossoms off the
Shasta daisies that border the
driveway, they're nice people
too!
Drove up the San Joaquin Val-
ley on the westside the other
day, Avenal, Coalinga, Fire-
baugh, Mendota--what a change.
Hundreds of acres of the nicest
looking irrigated crops of land
you wouldn't have tried to raise
an umbrella on 20 years ago.
Combines were cutting grain
on several pieces along the way.
'Waited and waited to see a load
of freshly sacked grain---a long
string of mulesthe jerk line
tied to that big iron lever just
ahead of the character that
"gee.d" this juggernaut up to the
warehouse in the distance.'
Right Angles
What a man--always rode at
right angles to the direction he
traveledhis feet dangling just
clear of the trough of powdered
silt ground up by the big iron
Yims rolling alongside. Think
he'd turn his lqead when he
yelled at that lead mule? As kids
we figured they shared the same
cut of tobacco and things went
smoothly cause the man always
had it in his possession. "Gee"
and "haw" were yelled at inter-
wds only to remind the longer-
eared member of the.partnership
of this fact.
Saw a large patch of alfalfa
being grown fox' seed production.
At regular intervals along the
borders of the patch, a few hives
of bees were stationed to aid in
pollinization. Each stand must
have been working overtime--
looked like enoug h alfalfa seed
in the making to plant half the
state. Alfalfa honey on good
THROW AWAY YOUR
LAWN MOWER
Plat JJll CULTUR| CItNTIPIDg LAWN
Gn&a for • permanent lawn. Need8 no
mowinlJ. Ch'owa in Itny soil--in the sun r
ia the shade. )dake$ n beautiful cerpet
and crowds ottt weeds and ell other
[ grnnet. We are the original growers from ]
the oal otock brought from China. |
Mly oth types of aslma ere being I
caile¢l UltlWrllPgDIk ]M[OJcO mare you get !
p tad aRy day ot the yeer. Write t i
iParttculartt so you can plant at once. |
AOIN4Y, LAND'S END FARM I-
Bq 403S An*tin el, TeeJ [
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Gardening Tips-for Week
Gardening tips for the week.
• •. Unless your garden spraying
,,r dusting is thorough you may
te wasting time, Inoney and ef-
fort. Dfrecting the insecticide
only at the top of the plant will
prove of little avail. You should
hit the t)hmt from on top, from
the sides and from below. Ill-
sects lurking in the joints of the
stems are often hidden from
view. Dousing the plant with in-
secticide pays off.
Set yotlr la*A'n nlo\\;ger to cut
at a greater height during the
warm season. After mowing, the
grass blades should be at least
one and one-half inches tall; one
and three-quarter inches would
i)e even better.
Flooding a lawn,is the most
effective watering method at
this time. Light sprinkling bare-
ly wets the surface and causes
the root to turn upwards. Shal-
low-rooting plants can not snp-
l)ort husky top gn'owth.
Potted l:)lants will keel)your
garden scene from becomilg
nlouotollOtlS. YOU call always
place flowering plants in potted
containers ill sections of yonr
garden requiring color. As the
scene becomes horing you can
easily move the pots from oue
location to another,
• . . This is time of year when
fuchsias require lots of water.
A soil mulch will aid in reducing
tle soil temperature and con-
serving moisture. Turning the
hose on the plants will wash
brown hot cakes--here we go
again!
- As one gardener to another,
haven't you at some time had a
hankerin' to keep a colony of
hees? Now I've read how to put
hives together--I know wherein
workers and drones differ and
that a queen is bigger still. I've
read that, the queen .mates once
in her life, high in the air, and
produces offspring of the gehder
that the colony most needs.
Now the thought of a mere
hunan controlling the destiny of
such an obviously superior
creature just doesn't seem right.
• p .O
them down well. Use a fine siSray
for this job.
Roses in five-gallon containers
are still available at most nur-
series. This is not the best time
for setting out these plants but
for filling in they will prove
satisfactory. This is one way of
having a garden of fall roses if
5'our present rose garden is in-
complete.
Pelargoniuln cnttings may be
taken and started now. Also the
plants may require pruning back
if their growth has become too
spindly.
3000 Mechanical
Pickers Expected
to Harvest Cotton
Three thonsand or more me-
chanical pickers may be used
for harvesting California's 1951
cotton crop, which it is estimated
will be valued at over $300,000,-
000.
This was rel)orted hy .T.R.
Tavernetti and B. B. Ewing at
the American Society of Agricul-
tural Engineers' Annual Meet-
ing in Houston, Tex., June 18-20.
Tavernetti is an agricultural
engineer in the Experiment Sta-
bion of the University of Cali-
fornia at Davis and B. B. Ewing
is associate agricultural engineer
at the U. S. D. A. Cotton Experi-
ment Station at Shafter. This
figure represents more than
twice the number of pickers
used last year.
Cotton Mechanization
In an intensive study of cot-
ton Mechanization problems car-
tied on since 1949, University
Experiment Station scientists
have had the co-operation of the
U. S. D. A. Bureau of Plant In-
dustry, Soils and Agricultural
Engineering, the Agricultural
Extension Service and the Cali-
fornia Planting Cotton Seed Dis-
tributors.
The work has included plant
breeding to develop character-
isties , suitable for mechaniza-
tion; cultural practices to elim-
inate or mechanize thinning and
weed control; improvement of
Yes -- always have wanted to • equipment adaptable to cotton
keep a few stands of bees. Now growing; and testing chemicals
you know it could be sort of an for weed contror and defoliation.
atavistic inoculation that's hold- The chief problem still to be
ing me back. The story goes that (Continued on Page 7)
in the later summer of '84 or '85
Grandpa as packing over a nar-
row trail somewhere back of
Mariposa.
Seems it was getting dusk and
he saw what he thought was an
ohl gray felt hat caught in the
brush alongside the trail. "Well
"gramp" smacked it with a stick
only to lem'n that some wasps
buiM a nest that looks like an
old felt hat, yep he was really
inoculated. Don't believe it, but
the oldtimers swear it took a
man on horseback 45 minutes
to overtake the old gent, some-
where just east of Le Grande!
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