National Garden Bureau plan for a compact starter vegetable plot
The plan guides beginners to a 300 square foot garden sized 20 by 15 feet that can grow 13 vegetables for a family of three. It recommends not overextending the garden, spacing plants well, selecting area adapted varieties, and planting seed packets with seasonal succession for fall harvest. It notes costs around six fifty for seeds and potential produce worth about one hundred fifty dollars or more per season.
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Odorless Garlic Breakthrough From Japan’s Nakagawa
Toshio Nakagawa, a 66 year old former rice farmer, says he developed an odorless garlic after 19 years of selective breeding. Mitsubishi will market the strain in Japan next month, hoping to curb garlic breath and protect exclusive supply despite garlic’s self propagating nature.
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Tokyo
Toshio Nakagawa
Mitsubishi Corporation
Japan
Nakagawa
Mitsubishi
Junichi Moriya
Garlic grows as stamina aid for livestock in Japan
A report notes garlic used to boost livestock stamina and milk yield, while warning the mutant crop may revert to its original scent within years. It suggests garlic priced at about 80 cents for 3.5 ounces in Japan and predicts future price pressure.
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Japan
Gardening Is For The Birds And The Deer
A humorous, wary column recalling failed Burpee garden purchases in the Southern California mountains. Wildlife including deer rabbits gophers and birds devastated tomatoes beets and raspberries while garden dreams met tough mountain reality. The piece ends with thanks to Burpee but a warning to avoid overreaching nature.
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Manzanita
Burpee
Propagating Succulents and Cactus by AGGIE ROBERTS
Succulents and cactus can be propagated by seed cuttings grafting or offsets. Seed sowing is cheap yields many plants. Cuttings grow fast while grafting joins two plants for one. Use medium of 50 50 houseplant mix and sharp sand with bone meal. Maintain even moisture and avoid disturbance when watering.
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Crassula
The New Dwarf Flowering Nicotiana Impresses Gardens everywhere
The old tall flowering tobacco offered fragrance but limited color and durability. New dwarf nicotianas reach 15 to 18 inches, branch at the base, bloom daylong with strong scent, and attract hummingbirds. They self clean, resist weather, and seed catalogs show many colors from rose pink to crimson. Plant in sun, sow directly or start in nursery rows, and transplant early.
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