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Herald - Lantern - Dispatch 26 )une '85

Bt ' f ' Do ru Ward PERSONAL TOUCH — Kathryn Ashleigh helps friend Michael Ricci with sun tan lotion on the Stone liarbor beach iasLweek. The Philadelphia couple can be found in the area on most summer weekends.

Low, But Mot Bad WASHINGTON - Political Action Committees (PACs). formed to represent a variety of special interests like business groups, labor unions and energy combines, contributed $95,515 to the last election campaign of U.S. Kep William Hughes <l)-2d Dist) The amount was the second lowest given to memliers of Congress from New Jersey Topping the PAC list was U S Kep James Howard <I)-3d Dist.i from Ocean County, who received $215,054. Rody R ('covered OCKAN CITY Coast Guardsmen found the body of James A. Shyner. 19. near the Ship Channel Bridge in Great Kgg Harbor Bay around H a m Sunday He has been missing since June Hi w hen he was thrown from a vehicle driven along the bridge by Craig J Gaiety. IK. both of Northfield. The passenger door was sheered off on impact with the guardrail while Gately was driving at 91 miles an hour, police reported ' See Coupon On s/ I I Classified | r v>50( ; °FF ,

No Suspension for Chief COURT HOUSE Middle Township committeemen have abandoned plans to suspend Police Chief Edward Hansen for eight days because he didn't discipline, as they ihought he should, two subordinates in December. One missed work Dec 8. the other wrecked a patrol car Dec. 16 and Hansen reprimanded him In the wake of the committeemen's decision last week, an ordinance will be drafted, spelling out lines of police department Switching Locals? COURT HOUSE - Teamsters' Amalgamated Local 6 will be representing 700 county employes — if Sam Kellyhas his way. The former business manager of Local 1983. International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades i IBPATt. is trying to talk those employes into abandoning Local 1983 for the Teamsters Kelly's attempt last year, to disaffiliate Local 1983 from its interna tional. saw him replaced by an IBPAT trustee

Doris Word HUG FOR A TUG — Wildwood cop Mike Siderio of Rio Grande gets a hug from son. Matthew. 3. even though he lost the tug of war with high school vacationing graduates during Senior Week.

Schaffer New AFWIechanir WILDWOOD - Airman Ralph L Schaffer III. son of Mr and Mrs Ralph I. Schaffer Jr. of 320 W Pine Ave., has graduated from the U S Air Force jet engine mechanic course at Chanute Air Force Rase. Ill Schaffer is scheduled to serve with the 437th Field Maintenance Squadron at Charleston Air Force Base. S.C He is a 1984 graduate of Wildwood High School. Rowling Club (lets Awards COURT HOUSE - The bowling club of the South Cape Nursing Home here ended the season with a banquet at which Mrs Arline Engle. activity director, presented each member with a bowling pin which she pinned on their bowling hats.

How to Grow Healthy Garden

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To grow a healthy vegetable garden — one with few or no diseases — Larry Newbold. county agricultural agent, suggests some general practices which can be used. The following 10 steps will maintain healthy plants and reduce the need for fungicides. You may be able.to devise others which are especially suited to your garden. 1. Choose resistant or tolerant varieties. The easiest and most important way to manage plant diseases is to choose resistant or tolerant varieties. The letter abbreviations used to describe the resistance of a variety (for example, VF = Verticillium and Fusarium wilt resistant. PM= powdery mildew resistant or tolerant ) are listed in seed catalogs. Resistant varieties resist infection by a particular disease agent and show little or no disease. Tolerant varieties may show symptoms. but still yield the same as resistant varieties or susceptible ones protected with pesticides. When available. choose varieties which are resistant or toiernat to a disease that previously has been a problem 2. PURCHASE seed treat ed with fungicides and insecticides. Seed may come pretreated with a dusting of a fungicide and an insecticide. or you may dust the seed with a fungicide such as captan or thiram. This coating will help prevent the seed from rotting in the soil prior to germination and can also help protect the newly emerging seedling from "damping off". 3. Purchase disease-free seed, transplants, propagating material. Begin with healthy plant material to help plants become quickly established in the garden Planting materials which are unhealthy at the start will never yield as much as healthy ones or may die when still young. Reputable seed companies sell only diseasefree plant materials. Some seeds are hot water treated to remove infections agents WHEN SHOPPING for transplants or other propagating material, take time to examine the plant stock thoroughly to make sure it is vigorous and healthy. If you save your own seed harvest it from

healthy plants and dry it thoroughly. Store these in properly labeled airtight containers in a cool, dry place. 4. Select a sunny, welldrained location with welldrained soil for vigorous growth of garden plants. Weak and spindly plants are easy targets for disease organisms. Even if plants remain alive and free of infectious disease, they will not yeild as much as strong and burly plants. 5. IMPROVE the soil environment. Where there is no other choice for a garden site but a heavy, wet soil, plant in raised beds or ridged rows so the soil around the plants' roots will be drier. Heavy, wet soils discourage healthy root growth and encourage root rots. When a garden is established on sloped terrain, plant in terraced beds to reduce soil erosion over delicate young plants and newly sown seed. Soils that are dry and sandy may be mulched with a variety of materials (straw, grass clippings, black plastic, etc.) to help retain moisture. A soil environment which is favorable to healthy root development will support the growth of healthy plants. Soil tests are available from the Cape May County Extension Service. The cost is $5 The soil is tested at Cook College of Rutgers University and it usually takes about 30 days to get the results. Stop by the Extension Service and pick up a soil test kit todayi 6. WATER AND feed plants. Plants require one inch of rainfall per week to grow normally. If this is not supplied by nature, water the garden to help maintain healthy, growing plants. Try to avoid using overhead, sprinkler irrigation because it can promote the development and spread of leaf, flower, and fruit infections. Trickle irrigation is best because it does not wet the plants above ground nor disturb the soil. Garden plants which are fertilized properly at planting time and as a sidedress will grow better and healthier. Always use a complete fertilizer or incorporate a well-rotted manure or rich compost into the soil. Avoid over-fertilization because this injures plant roots directly. 7 Space plants to allow

for air circulation. High humidity and moisture favor the development of diseases on the tops of plants. Allowing enough room for plants to grow and space for air to circulate around mature plants reduces the humidity and promotes rapid drying of plant surfaces. This in turn helps reduce disease incidence. 8. PRACTICE cleanliness in the garden. Always remove from the garden area plant materials that show* signs of disease and destroy them or discard them in the trash. Work in Ihe garden when plants are dry because moisture on plants aids the spread of infectious diseases. Composting, unless the pile becomes very hot. does not eliminate diseases from plant refuse under New Jersey climate conditions. For this reason it is unwise to compost any diseased plant material. At the end of the growing season, clean up all crop debris because disease agents will overwinter in this plant material and infect new plants the following season. 9. Plant a fall cover crop and plow it in the following spring. After cleaning up the garden, sow a grass, like perennial rye, which will begin to grow that fall. THIS COVER CROP will protect the top soil from erosion druing the winter months. The following spring plow in the rye grass to enrich the soil with fresh organic matter or "green manure". This practice also helps reduce the populations of certain soil-borne disease agents. Other, non-infect-ious. agents flourish on the green manure in the soil and tend to inhibit the infectious ones. 10. Rotate crops. Successive planting of one crop family in the same area over many seasons promotes the build-up of disease agents in the soil. Thus, disease becomes more severe over time. Rotating plants in successive seasons to areas of the garden where they have not been grown can help reduce the losses due to soilborne disease agents. When planning your vegetable garden keep in mind these 10 steps and when growing your garden always practice these steps. Your garden will be healthier as a result.

SKY SLIT — Who said there are no straight lines tn nature? A storm that went over Stone Harbor one evening last week created an almost perfect 180-degree line against the horizon. Owen Murphy took the photo off 91st Street.