The
Gardening Corner: Now is the time to finish planting
all of your warm season crops such as tomatoes, peppers, squashes etc. If you have Wall-o-Waters around your
tomatoes you can remove those now.
Install a trellis next to your climbing crops before they get very
tall. You may have to help each plant
start to climb at first. Keep everything
weeded and watered and in about 2 months you will start to harvest. Plan what you will do with all of your
produce. Start to buy your canners,
jars, sugar, vinegar etc for food preservation.
Buy a little at a time. Once the
food is ready to harvest, it does not keep.
Highlight
of the Month: Rain Perfect Solar Powered
Rain Barrel Pump System
This pump is
made to use solar energy (free), to quickly and easily use the collected rain
water in your barrel(s). Install the
pump in about 30 seconds and let the battery charge in the sun. When you want to use the water you can attach
a hose and water your garden with as much pressure as if you were using water
from the faucet. One full charge will
pump up to 100 gallons of water. The
pump is a little pricey, but you can move it from barrel to barrel. To learn more about it you can go to www.rainperfectpump.com We recently bought
one and we are very happy with it. We
have even attached a soaker hose to it and used that to water some shrubs. I think this will help us to use our stored
water more often and not forget about it.
Some people have a row of rain barrels “daisy chained’ together and one
pump could be used for all of those also, no need to move it around.
Utah
Yellow Dot Program
This program is designed to help first
responders in the event of a car accident.
The Yellow Dot in the driver’s side rear window alerts first responders
that you have a small packet of information for them in your glove box. The packet helps them to know who you are,
and any vital medical information that they or hospital personnel would need. You can pick up your free packet of Yellow
Dot papers and the sticker at any Salt Lake County Library and other
locations. You should fill out an
information card for each person in your family who regularly uses that
vehicle. Other states in the country are
also using this program. For those of
you who live out of state, google the Yellow Dot program for your state. Even if your state does not participate, it
is still a great idea to have info cards like these in your glove box in case
you are not able to communicate after an accident.
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