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By Lyle Hillyard
Utah State Senator
Representing Cache & Rich Counties

As we were driving home Friday morning from Salt Lake after the legislative session ended, we stopped at my daughter’s home in Centerville. I was pleasantly surprised to see that they had already planted some of their garden, and especially the growth of the spinach that they had planted late last fall.

Now that the session is over, I feel like spring is in the air so I stopped to look at my garden. I was pleased to see that most of the snow was gone so I will be able to cane the raspberries as we prepare for a new growing year. My raspberries come on about Labor Day and when caned, I must cut all of the branches off at ground level. When I am done, you can’t tell anything is even growing there. The other raspberries we have grown come on in mid summer and the caning there is quite different. You must only cut off the dead wood which is the stalks which have born fruit the past growing season and trim off some of the longer stems. By mid summer, my raspberry stalks will be 3 to 4 feet high and you would think that they had been a patch like that for years.

The carrots we buried in leaves last fall have now are all dug up and are as sweet as I remember them from past years. We are going to try parsnips. I remember them from my youth as also good buried for the winter. My wife has found lots of uses for parsnips this past year.

The other immediate job is to prune the apple trees. We had another good crop last year which leads me to wonder if this may be a resting year where not so many fruit develop. It won’t be long before I can plant some potatoes. The earlier the better for me because I love to dig and eat new potatoes. I feel we are blessed with good land and the freedom to use it well.

Happy spring and happy gardening!

1 Comments:

 Anonymous said...

My favourite season is spring. Spring is a lovely season, I think. There is a garden behind my house. In spring, the trees become green and the flowers give off fragrance. There are many butterflies and bees over the flowers. The butterflies are dancing and the bees are singing. Sometimes it rains. It usually rains quietly. The rain moistens the trees and the flowers. I think they may say, "We're very thirsty. The rain is very good. It can help us." What a beautiful scene!

Rainbow

4/09/2010 9:34 AM  

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