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By Lyle Hillyard
Utah State Senator, District 25

As you all know, this has been a very slow spring for planting my garden (until last Saturday, I would not have called it a summer). With the constant rains, it has been too wet and too cold to work the soil and help many of the plants grow. I did notice that the rhubarb and the strawberries have done exceptionally well.

My father was a field man for Del Monte for many years in Cache County and told me that corn will only grow when it reaches 70 degrees. We have not had many of those days so far this year. As I see how poor the corn crop is in Iowa, I think my corn may be more valuable this year. My wife does a great job cutting it off the ears and freezing it for year round eating.

Some of the squash froze last Thursday night when it got to 32 degrees here in Cache Valley. Is it really June 12th? I could not go walking the other morning because it was snowing. And the morning before that, I could see my breath while walking. I refuse to wear a winter coat in June so I toughed it out in my sweatshirt. I hope with the sudden increase in the temperature that the garden will really take off. I can’t see many small apples on my apple trees so that causes concern. My son-in-law told me that he was trying to buy fruit trees the other day and was told that the tree lot was sold out. There seems to be a rush on fruit trees every year that employment becomes unstable because people are looking for ways to provide food for their family.

1 Comments:

 Barbara said...

I appreciated hearing your perspective on the State Treasurer's race on KVNU's "For the People" last night. Is it true a section of Utah's Constitution makes legislators who vote for pay increases for state offices ineligible to be elected to those offices? If so, Walker is ineligible because he voted for a pay increase for the State Treasurer. How has he advanced this far if lawmakers know he's ineligible?

6/17/2008 4:39 PM  

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