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Plan Now for Fall Vegetables


Sun, Jul 23rd, 2000
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Monday, July 10, 2000

It’s not too late to sow seeds of many short season vegetables. Many gardeners want to get all their seeds in and then just let it grow! But staggering planting dates will give you a longer harvest season. This week there is still time to plant snap beans, beets, basil, carrots and kale. Lettuces may still do well if it doesn’t get too hot.

Many garden centers and nurseries have great sales on annuals and herbs to tuck in where the radishes and spinach were. These pot-bound treasures will really take off if given good soil and plenty of water. Be sure to pull apart the roots if they are root-bound.

For fall harvest of kohlrabi, leaf lettuces, radishes, spinach and turnips plant seeds in early to mid-August.
Companion Planting

Planting a diverse mix of plants is not only beautiful but can create a healthier garden as well. Companion planting mates plants together for several good reasons including:

• Companions help each other grow. Tall plants, for example, provide shade for sun-sensitive shorter plants. Plant flowers such as cosmos, spider flower (cleome), or flowering tobacco (nicotianna) in your lettuce patch.

• Companions use garden space more effectively. Climbing plants cover up the ground, upright plants grow up. Native Americans commonly planted pole beans and squash with corn. Beans climbed up the corn and everything shaded the squash.

• Companions prevent pest problems. Plants like onions repel some pests. Other plants can lure pests away from more desirable plants. Leaf miners prefer pigweed or ragweed to peppers. Onions, garlic or chives planted with roses will repel many rose pests. Nasturtiums repel cucumber beetles.

• Companions attract beneficial insects. Every successful garden needs plants that attract the predators of pests. Dill is a great companion for cabbage, brussels sprouts and broccoli. Cabbages support the floppy dill while the dill flowers attract tiny beneficial predator wasps that control cabbage worms

So what have you got to lose? Try companion planting as a way to increase your yields with out compromising your health with petrochemical sprays. Many successful organic gardeners maintain special hedgerows of plants that attract beneficial insects. These plants include: Anise, Basket of Gold (Aurinia), Bee Balm, Coreopsis, Cosmos, Dill, Fennel, Feverfew, Golden Marguerite, Lovage, Painted Daisy, Sweet Alyssum, Tansy, Yarrow and Zi .....
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Scenes from Childhood

Sun, Jul 23rd, 2000
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Monday, July 10, 2000

We stand on a cracked sidewalk, looking across a cyclone fence at vacant lots and trees, all that remains of the Sumner Field Housing Projects in North Minneapolis. In 1938, the year he was born, my husband's family becam ..... 
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The elusive Blue Racer

Sun, Jul 23rd, 2000
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Monday, July 24, 2000

In an edition of this column published earlier this year (Fillmore County Journal Vol. 15, No. 34, May 29, 2000) we briefly examined how the physical geography of the Upper Mississippi River Valley, in combination with th ..... 
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A mystery writer visits

Sun, Jul 23rd, 2000
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Monday, July 10, 2000

Running a motel in Helena, Montana, was a very confining business, the mystery writer and Chatfield native, Elizabeth Gunn told an audience last week at the Harmony Public Library. "There were whole years where we didn’t ..... 
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Bare Feet

Sun, Jul 23rd, 2000
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I did something very daring last night. I walked outside in my bare feet to put a bag of trash in the dumpster. The dew-covered grass felt cool to my hot feet. The sidewalk was smooth and warm in contrast. The different temperatures and textures comp ..... 
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Lazarus

Sun, Jul 23rd, 2000
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Monday, July 17, 2000


Over the last several years, many of our farm cats have come to live with us as orphans, dropped off on the side of the road by some passerby who found it easier to dump an animal in the country than go through the e ..... 
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Curdlecod goes Asiatic

Sun, Jul 23rd, 2000
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Chester and Cynthia Curdlecod are the local gourmets of Flabbergast County and one evening last week we were invited to their home for dinner. They take pride in their ability to prepare sumptuous meals from the local fish, fowl and fauna and avoid b ..... 
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Journal Profile # 75

Sun, Jul 23rd, 2000
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Name: Karla Wangen
Home: Rural Harmony
Age: 37
Profession: 1. Parent 2. City Clerk for the City of Canton
Family:Husband-Arlis Wangen; 3 daughters-Kayla-age 15, Krista-age 11 and Nicole-age 7.
Pers ..... 
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Chicken and Rice Dinner

Sun, Jul 23rd, 2000
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1 small box minute rice
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 can celery soup
1/2 cup milk
cut up chicken
1 package dried onion soup mix
• Grease a 13x9 baking dish. Place minute rice in bottom of dish. Mix together soups and milk. Heat ..... 
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