Home Gardens Produce Delicious Potatoes
Gardeners are advised to grow potatoes at home as an easy, flavorful crop. Plant sprouted seed potatoes in small hills with 2 to 3 inches of soil, mound to prevent greening, and harvest early or late varieties for baking quality. Use proper spacing, fertilizer, and a spray for blight and beetles, choosing Katahdin or Kennebec for home use. Cobblers planted May 1 yield early tubers, with August maturity for main crops. Potatoes adapt to sand or clay, but do not rely on home gardens to cut costs versus commercial production.
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Burlington
Winston A. Way
AVM Extension Agronomist
Green Mountains
Way
Cornell
Bailey
Hedrick
Snyder
New England
New York
Vermont Gardener Blackberries Guide for Northeastern Growers
A Northeastern gardening guide explains how to select site soil and care for trailing blackberries. It covers spacing, pruning, cane life cycles, mulching, fertilizing, watering, and post harvest handling, naming Eldorado Nanticoke Bailey Hedrick Snyder and notes regional suitability.
Conservation Conversation Landowners Seek Help In Constructing Ponds
Soil Conservationist notes E W Meyer of Southern Vermont Orchards has helped construct six ponds with aid from the Soil Conservation Service and built three to four more independently. A four acre pond among apple trees on Mt Anthony slopes offers scenic value while supplying spraying water for harvests. Meyer plans two new ponds near Carpenter Hill, one quarter to half acre, dependent on springs. Requests for pond help now total 23 landowners. A ride through Southern Vermont Orchards in bloom illustrates the appeal and utility of ponds.
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Arlington
E. W. Meyer
Vermont
Meyer
Soil Conservation Service
Mt. Anthony
Bennington
Pownal
Carpenter Hill
Four Acre
Full Speed Ahead on the Farm by Extension Agent
University of Vermont Extension Agent John C. Page urges farmers to work longer hours as weather warms and soil dries. He notes fencing repairs, seeding plans for alfalfa and oats, soil-tested fertilization, and a tight May to June schedule for corn ground, hay, and alfalfa to ensure a productive season.
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John C. Page
University of Vermont Extension Agent
Grange Week Proclamations Signed by 30 Governors
Thirty governors led by Gov. Philip H. Hoff issue Grange Week proclamations celebrating the Grange’s community national and world achievements as Grange Week runs from a Saturday through April 23. Secretary Orville L. Freeman notes nearly 99 years of farm family progress since the 1867 founding.
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Washington
Grange
Philip H. Hoff
Orville L. Freeman
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Vermont Gardener
Mr. Easton
Main St
Spring St
Williamstown, Mass
Zenith
Farm Bureau
Dorset
Leon Edgerton
East Dorset
Jane Beebe
Manchester
Winhall
Peru
Landgrove
Clyde Bryant Sr
A. Daniel Mason Sr
East Pownal
Blanche Strohmaier
North Rupert
Lois Graf
West Rupert
Lynn Rudd
Stamford
Readsboro
Ira Whitney
Grandpa
Mer
Chrysler Motors Corporation
Plymoy
Drysdale’s
Royalcraft
New England Plymouth
Plymouth
Chrysler Corporation
Paulin’s
Rt Bor
Shaftsbury, Vermont
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