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PAGE 10 MAY


2012


may Best days according to Moon phases.


Best plant g da Abo


est p a ting days Above ground cr


ound crops . . .


Root crops . . . . . . . . . . . . Seed beds . . . . . . . . . . . . Kill plant pests . . . . . . . . .


Best fishing days


 Best . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7, 15-16, 23-24  Good . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 13-14  Fair: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 3-4, 8, 10-12, 28-29  Poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9, 17-22, 25-27, 30-31


Best days to do other stuff Begin diet to gain weight . . . . . . . . . . . .


3-4, 20, 23-24, 30-31, 5-7, 10-12, 15-16, 19 5-7, 23-24


3-4 20, 23-24, 30-31 13-14, 17-18


Folksy Tips, Hints & Wisdom FOR FARM, HOME AND GARDEN


Okie gardeners share their favorite tips


G 1, 28


Begin diet to lose weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 19 Begin logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-10 Breed animals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6 Make sauerkraut, can, or pickle . . . . . . .


Cut hair to discourage growth . . . . . . . . 18-19 Cut hair to encourage growth . . . . . . . .


Cut hay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-17 Destroy pests and weeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-17 Go camping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


7-8


Go to the dentist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2, 28-29 Graft or pollinate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23-24 Harvest above ground vegetables . . . .


Harvest below ground vegetables . . . . 18-19 Plant above ground vegetables . . . . . . . 5, 23-24 Plant below ground vegetables . . . . . . . 13-14 Prune to discourage growth . . . . . . . . . .


Prune to encourage growth . . . . . . . . . . 26-27 Quit smoking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 19 Set posts or pour concrete . . . . . . . . . . .


9-10


Start projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Wean animals and children . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 19


—from the Old Farmer’s Almanac 1-2, 28-29


et two gardeners in the same room and they’ll be swap- ping tips in no time. The ability to share hard-learned lessons and easy shortcuts via the Internet makes online


gardening a fun way to spend an evening. Just a few moments of digging, turned up these Okie gardening tips, contributed by Oklahoma gardeners:


 Need plant markers? Use old window blinds. The blinds are constructed of light resistant plastic (or metal if you get the really old ones) and last forever in the garden. Use a grease pencil, a liquid needlepoint marker pen, or a permanent magic marker to write on the blind, cut it to length and presto - great garden markers.


 When sowing tiny seeds it is so easy to plant them too thick. The trick is to mix them with a little sugar as you sow. This helps you control how many seeds you are dropping. The sugar will dissolve when you water the planted seeds.


13-14 3-4, 30-31


 My best trick ever was to get my husband in on the watering, Wow, he has done a great job ever since! Now I introduce him as my “Master Gardener” He beams, I get some rest!


 When designing a new flower bed, lay out a garden hose or rope to outline the bed. You can change the angle of the bed, twist it one way or another and step far back to look. It’s an easy way to get the shape you want before you dig!


 Bribery works around here - I used to plant cherry tomatoes


and ever bearing strawberries to entice my kids to do some weeding. Pick one or two rows) of weeds and help yourself to however many strawberries or toms are ripe. Now they’re teenagers and demand money but it still gets the job done.


7, 16-17


 One of the best things I have found to dig up a weed or to plant your spring plants is to buy a BIG screwdriver, it works so good and I also have a spoon that I use. I just leave them in a pan that I keep all my small garden tools in. Also before you mulch your plants lay down newspaper around whatever you are planting then the mulch. Not only does it hold water, but no weeds. It will last a couple of years.


 For top notch weather information bookmark the Web Site


for the Oklahoma Climatological Survey (To find the current URL, do a search on Oklahoma Climatological Survey and look for an entry with ‘OKLAHOMA MESONET at Norman, OK’. The site has great weather information including soil temperatures by county!


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