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Zucchini squash is available in yule{ as
well as green fruit colors,
Green machine
A few plants of sunimer squash in your gardert.can, turn 'tut
valuable' food like a production line. Onee swite.hed.,on by sum
pier heat each green machine can produce two to three Squash
per week for eight to twelve .,week4.
t.
squash places 'high in the
ranks-of valuable. vegetables
... number five and climbin-g!:
A single'l.dant can produCe 10
to .36 fruits averaging one
half .pound each. At -10 cents
per lb. :%,ou are Paling $3.20 to
$7,20 in'squash per Plant etiJh7
season. That's Up to till centS
per sq. ft.
But most everyone plants too
much squash, even ezcperi
enced gardeners. Three or
four hills of two plants each'
are plenty for the average
sized fatuity. Even One 'or two
too many squash plants can
force you into deliberately
harvesting fruits • at baby
sizes. This isn't very efficient.
With just the right number of
__squash p.ta-pts 4n your garden
you will have to prograni your
production more carefully.
One way to increase the value
is to —fTirce vines to pratiTFe
before the midsummer glut
shoes sqUash prices.
Increased heat. improved
drainage, increased carbon
dioxide and optimized levelsr
of plant nutrition can all work
together to give yeti squash
two weeks before your
neighbor.
For warmer, better drained
soil, start by making hills or
tow mounds, Dump four
buckets of sand and manure
in a pile, dig it in and,leyekoff
a hill about the dianiet et of a
garbage can lid.. The soil
Within this raised area will
warm up taster and drain bet
ter. Also, the mound will keep
your feet off the, area where
squash roots are concen
trate& Compaction front your
weight Can squash the air and
life out of soil.
Now, here's a secret that will
assure you ,valuable early
:Tops of squash. Increased
Carrots are one of the
easiest vegetables to grow.
But adverse weather can
cause them to do strange
things, reports Cornell
University.
Take a popular carrot
variety like "Chantenay" for
example. At favourable soil
temperatures of 60 to 70
degrees, roots will assume
the normal wedge shape. But
if you harvest roots which
develop at soil temperatures
of 40 to 50 degrees F they will
be long arid pointed. Sail
temperatures of 70 to 80
degrees F will produce short,
heat .early in the season:can
hasten maturity. You set t he
st 'age by incorporating
organic mat t or and sand., .
Theo; you make hoods or'
canimies by stretching clear
plastic over arches or tripods '
wire or. vyird.
The CanopieS trap con
cent rate heat and carbon
ditocidel ;Von must, howtsver,
1:iith,1011y open a little
chimne.N: in the top of the
canopies each morning: in
order:to prevent your plants,
from, cooking, And don't for
gel to roll or pin tip the edges
of the catuipy -slightly to ad
not bees for pollinating the
IMNsoms.
An ether ke.N, to maximizing-,
sqt.ash value is to harvest
fruit at , larger sizes. tlecause
modl.rn squash—h—ITyrich aft.
slog to develop tough seeds .
ant'. bard skin, I h4,re
need to harvest fruits at baby
sizes-. Wait until they v c'igh 1
to •2 pounds, but no longer.
l.„e;.ving large fruits on the
Vim. will effectkely prp%ent
nev.jruits from forming.
Sumnu•r squash is' just as
popular as it is v;ilitable. (lot'.
reason is that .yini can . use
Squash for salads_ finger
foods and dips. Also, surplus
Sittetsh cani be frozen and
stored: or used in numerous
disheS from 'soups to bread,
Each hill of squash can spread
to (over sq. It. Thal much
space could ;tecommodate
another kind of vegetable
which, in. a small garden.
could he a real bonus..
So, if you plant squash
prtidently, there should he no
more plaintive midsummer
cries of, "Will somebody turn
off the green machine!"
stumpy roots.
,Prolonged low tem-
peratures can cause carrot
roots to be rather pale in
color. The nutritional value
of pale carrots is not as great
as that of deep orange roots
which have higher amounts
of betacarotene.
Prolonged low^ , tein-
peratures can also cause
flowers to 'form at the ex-
pense of edible roots. You
will see flower heads like
Queen Anne's Lace. Don't
try to eat the roots of
seeders;. they' will be woody,
and tasteless.
Mavbe that's who?' summer f li v is of citrbon dioxide and
. .
Temperature is the key
for good carrot growth