| Gardening for children
"Kids Can Grow," a summer gardening program offered by UNH Cooperation Extension 4-H Youth Development and the UNH Master Gardener program, for youth 8-14 years of age, is just about ready to begin. Have you ever wanted to learn more about gardening? Experience the fun and excitement of planting and watching your vegetables and flowers grow? Would you like to know more about where your food comes from and the nutrition found within? Then consider joining the program for a summer of fun. You'll be mentored by a UNH Master Gardener, learn about 3'x5' raised bed gardening, and work as a team with other members in our community gardens and have your very own garden at your home. For information and an application, call the Strafford County 4-H office at 749-4445. The application deadline is April 16, and there is limited space available.
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Landscaping to restore 'jewel'
A specialist stone company is set to revamp parts of Knightstone Island as work on the site comes to a close this Spring.The firm will landscape and renovate public areas of the island, while Redrow Homes continues to create luxury housing on the private areas.North Somerset Council has awarded a contract worth more than £120,000 to Afan Landscapes. The company will create a 'rock skirt' around the island's edge along the public footpath. This will involve putting an attractive rock formation between the buildings and the footpath, while seating will also be built into the rocks.A rockery will also be created in the middle of the carriage drive and it is hoped the landscaping project will fit in with the rest of the seafront.North Somerset councillor John Crockford-Hawley, responsible for strategic planning and transport, made the decision to award the contract.He said: "Come the summer we shall see Knightstone arise as a seafront jewel after many years of neglect and decay."High quality apartments will add a touch of residential style and help boost local businesses with an increased demand for restaurants and other leisure facilities.
Blot on a magical landscape? That's your lookout
There ought to be a name for them: those structures that are meant to provide sights for sore eyes, but which turn out to be eyesores themselves. They are the oxymorons of the travel world - tourist un-attractions, the man-made attempts to enhance beauty spots that blot the very landscapes they are supposed to embellish. The irony is that the only reason they are there is to improve the view - but the view from them, not of them. To ignore how they look is to adopt the logic of children who think that by hiding their eyes they become invisible. These constructions satisfy man's greed to see more than nature intended. Far from content with merely peering over the rim of the Grand Canyon, we now apparently need to step out over it into notional thin air. That this should require something looking like the tube of a low-voltage light bulb to be bolted to the canyon wall seems neither here nor there.
Bill Finch answers gardening questions
Q: Of late I have been having a problem that perhaps you can help me with, perhaps not. You see, for the last couple of weeks I have only been able to receive P. Allen Smith and other floral-related programming on my television, all with a purplish hue, to the point I'm beginning to feel like a bloomin' idiot! Could the problem possibly be with my dish antenna? Take a look at this photo and tell me what you think. I value your opinion. A: P. Allen Smith, of course, is a little too dandy to make use of the latest garden fashion sweeping the South. But there must be thousands of abandoned dish antennas in Alabama just begging to find a higher use. I used my dad's discarded dish antenna to make the roof of a chicken coop, but I can imagine a very attractive satellite dish gazebo surrounded by used-tire planters (Felder Rushing, the ball is in your court).
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