Vegetables from containers Gardeners who grow, or would like to grow, a vegetable garden in containers on a balcony, terrace, fire escape or even an abandoned strip of blacktop will benefit from the following advice according to James J McKeehen, Delaware County Extension agricultural agent. There is a method for growing a garden in containers that will produce a bumper crop of vegetables. The garden is grown entirely in two-and five-gallon black plastic containers. Over the years it has been found that one gallon containers do not produce well, probably because they do not allow the growing plants enough root room, and during the hot summer the temperature of the soil fluctuates too much because of the small soil volume. All of your plants should be grown in a prepared, soilless mix, and any of the commercially available mixes would be ac ceptable. These commercially GIGANTIC TRUCKLOAD SALE! 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Put some dry mix on the wet, sprinkle with water and you are "off to the races” agams. Set all of the containers on a while plastic mulch. Black plastic mulch allows the heat to build up in JACOBSEN *\ 00 OFF SELF-PROPELLED HOMEUTE HOMELITE 1700 WATT GENERATOR $lOO OFF LIST ‘599.00 SALE s499°° special JACOBSEN RMX R,D,NG MOWERS 'j —s\ Q • 8 H.P. RECOIL START RIDER W/30" MOWER DECK LIST M,099 • 8 H.P. ELECTRIC START RIDER W/30" MOWER DECK $7OO LIST‘I,2B9 #77 •11 H.P. ELECTRIC START RIDER SALE • OPTIONAL REAR BAGGER KIT * 150 READY FOR DELIVERY FIRST WEEK OF JUNE RIDER SALE ENDS JUNE 12 mid-summer and it is so great that can kill the pollen on most of > our mellon plants As a result, the plants bear fruit directly above the pots where they receive some protection from the heat Although weeds growing under the white plastic can make the surface very lumpy, heat buildup is no longer a problem Since there is no root competition the individual pots can be pushed quite closely together In a container-grown garden, watering daily is an absolute must, if you don’t do it your garden will fail Daily watering is important for two reasons First, it serves to wash away salts that might build up in the container Second, it helps keep the plants cool during the hot summer months A garden grown in containers in a soilless mix must be fertilized once a week beginning about two weeks after the sets are planted in the pots. Use a hozone proportioner to apply 12 oz. of 20-20-20 water soluble fertilizer per 48 gallons of water To feet a garden in this manner first make a concentrated fertilizer solution by mixing 12 oz of fertilizer in a three gallon bucket of water Screw the proportioner onto the faucet and then attach your garden hose to it. When you turn on the hose to water the plants it will siphon one gallon of the concentrated fertilizer solution per 16 gallon of water, thus applying the fertilizer in the correct por portion. There is usually little in the way of disease or insect problems in container-grown gardens. It is necessary to provide stakes and support wire for the plants. Sweet com becomes a bit top heavy when grown in five gallon pots, and it you plan to grow it use Get thi W/30" MOWER DECK LIST‘I,3B9 Wxidry, Thursday, Friday hi F 30 • T«*i4«y. Widaniay, Satvriay 'til fcOO a string to lie it to a support w ire When they truil, cucumbers and cantaloupes can grow up stakes and and along wires where sup ported by slings made of old panty hose Some 50 different species and cultivars of vegetables and herbs Flat breads LANCASTER - Flat bread production in the United States may be on the rise Agricultural Research Service evaluations showed soft white winter wheats from the Pacific Northwest to be ideally suited for the production of flat or pocket-type breads More than half the caloric mtake of more than half the world’s nations comes from bread, and internationally, flat breads are more popular than western-style loaf breads In a project funded by the Oregon, Washington, and Idaho Wheat Commissions, ARS food technologist Gordon L Ruben thaler and Patrick L Finney, along with visiting scientist Hamed Fandi, all at Pullman, Wash., evaluated the potential of soft white wheat for making flat breads Soft white wheat produced a less chewy and lighter bread, desirable charariensfics m fiat bread. 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