| Summer Vegetable Gardening, Part II:
Producing a toothsome crop of summer vegetables is more than plunking a few seeds or plants into the ground. Here are some strategies for dealing with your garden's challenges. GARDENING IN SMALL SPACES: If you are dirt challenged, consider these possibilities. First, search out nursery seeds and plants labeled small-sized or compact. For convenience, perhaps buy some plants from the nursery, but start special varieties from seed in a sunny window to transfer to the garden after danger of frost. Seed catalogs offer enticing possibilities. You can grow a few summer vegetables in containers with six hours or more of sunshine. Summer vegetables in general require more root space than leafy winter crops, so go with sizeable pots or half barrels. To prevent fry and die syndrome, keep the soil consistently moist.
What's New at Peter White Public Library
Teens looking for a good book to read might want to pick up a Thumbs Up! Book Award ballot in the librarys Teen Area. The Michigan Library Association established the Thumbs Up! Award in 1986 to recognize excellence in Young Adult literature, and in 2001 a teen vote was added to help determine the winners. Middle school and high school students may choose to read all 20 nominated books, or just one or two, and then vote for their favorites before May 25. Here are a few of the 2007 Thumbs Up! titles available:
In The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume One: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson, Octavian, a young boy seemingly being raised as a black prince, is shattered to discover he is actually the subject of an experiment to determine if Africans are a separate and distinct species.
Seminar on landscape architecture
A seminar on landscape architecture is being held by the Chamber of Architects and Anhalt University of Germany which for the past three years has done studio work to introduce landscape architecture proposals.
The chamber said Maltas most valuable capital, apart from its human resources, was the beautiful but very endangered landscape.
The seminar will be held at the Chamber of Commerce in Valletta tomorrow and will be addressed by the president of the German Architectural Board, Prof. Arno Schmid, a practising landscape architect who is a former president of the International Federation of Landscape Architecture.
Additionally, three landscape architects from Germany and Italy will present current projects in Europe. The third session in the afternoon will be a panel discussion with all speakers, moderated by the editor-in-chief of the two European journals for landscape architecture, TOPOS and Garten + Landschaft, Robert Schfer.
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MEN'S MINISTRY_OUTREACH Dinner and Fellowship will be held at 7 p.m. at the Bethany Baptist Church fellowship center. Dr. Bill Jones, evangelist and seminary professor, will present "Putting together the Puzzle of the Old Testament." Fri., April 20 NEW_HOME_CONGREGATIONAL_CHURCH, on Plywood Mill Rd., will hold their regular monthly sing at 7 p.m. Sat., April 21 A gospel singing will be held at the Chapman Church of God at 7 p.m. The featured singers will be the Kel'Lee family, Pete & Kerri Lee family with Robert & LInda Kelley. conecuh river chapter of quail forever will hold its first annual fundraising banquet at 7 p.m. at the Oakwood Lodge on Brooklyn Rd. Social hour begins at 6 p.m. and the auction will start at 8 p.m.
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