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Friday, April 11, 1975
University Dally Kansan
Gardens flourish despite inflation
By MARTHA WELKER Kansan Staff Reporter
Even though costs are up gardening is a popular pastime in Lawrence. On nice days business is good in stores that sell supplies to home gardeners.
J. West, of J. West Feed Co., said last week that he had been very busy.
"We're busier than last year selling beans, peas, potatoes and corn." West said. "We have run out of peas already and had to recorder."
However, West said, the cost of seeds went up this year. Some seeds that sold for $1.10 a pound last year are selling for $1.80 a pound now. The lowest priceed seeds are beans and corn.
"Seeds are costing us what we sold them for last year," West said. "And people are buying more conservatively this year. They are buoying just what they need."
WEST SAI T USE THE OF fertilizer was down this year because of cost increases. In five years the cost has gone up from $50 a ton to $185 a ton.
Max Fuller, owner of Gardenland, said the man was burglar then buster than last year because of the week's war.
According to Fuller, the cost of seeds is up 10 per cent this year, and there appears to be no trouble with supplies so far. Last year was a great year for seeds. Fuller said.
Fuller said people were more interested in learning now, because they were more employable.
Another big factor is high grocery prices the desire to get their hands in the soil, he said.
"I think more people are using natural fertilizers like manure and compost. It is part of the back to nature feeling, too. The price of commercial fertilizers are up 20 per cent from last year, while the price of fertilizer is up only 5 per cent," Fuller said.
JIM FREEMAN, store manager of the Garden Center, disagreed that more people were required.
Freeman said, "The trouble with organic gardening is that convenience is at a
He said that people needed each other and needed community. It is through one's peers that people get a confirmation of their own being, he said.
Forer said, the human condition was a lonely condition.
minimum and the fertilizer is more expensive for what you get. In a 50-pound bag of manure for $3.49, there is only one-half pound of nitrogen. A 40-pound bag of commercial fertilizer for $6.85 has 10 per cent more nitrogen."
Freeman agreed that seed costs were up about 10 per cent. However, seeds aren't all grown yet.
Loneliness is developed out of a sense of need, and can develop into a state of desperation, Herman Leon, professor of social welfare, said Thursday night.
*We sometimes run short of the most popular types. Last year we ran short of top-10. So we’re really not sure what’s up.*
Leon said that the state of being alone was separate from the issue of loneliness. If one used his loneliness it would open a new dimension for him, he said.
Panelists explore state of loneliness
In terms of costs, Freeman said, the largest increases have come in pesticides and insecticides. Last year there were 10 million bayer applications, but no shortages are apparent this year.
Leon, Don Baldwin, United Ministries in Higher Education campus minister; Bonnie Patton, director of the office of Affirmative Action; and Norman Forer, assistant professor before; were panelists at "exploration in Loneliness" workshop sponsored by KU-Y.
Everyone needs privacy and to be alone, Forer said. Privacy is a time for creativity, not loneliness. Alienation is different from loneliness because we use it as a rejection of society, life and self.
Watson Library recently installed a new microforms reader-copier that will make reading and copying microforms quicker and easier for library patrons, Sherry Hawkins, library assistant in the microforms department said last week.
Microform use to be facilitated by new machine
ELABORATE GARDEN tools like rototillers have become more popular, according to Arnold Feinberg, manager of Horizons Honda.
The Recordak automatically threads the film, where the old machines had to be manually threaded, Hawkins said. The job of the patron who has a lot of microform is to ensure that the hardened by the new motorized advance mechanism in this machine, she said.
The new machine, the Recordak Motormatic reader by Kodak, has many advantages, Hawkins said. It can read and copy from reels of film and from fiche. A fiction is a flat transparent sheet that can show images. The Recordak can use positive or negative film, she said, and, unlike the old reader-copiers, it makes positive copies from positive film.
The Recordak makes three different sized copies for 15 cents, Hawkins said.
The machine can record three-fourths of the microform material in the microforms department, she said, but it can't record opaque material.
The microforms department has copies of rare books, dissertations, newspapers and magazines on microform and fiche, Hawkins said.
Human relationships have been replaced by cash relationships, and human rights replaced by property rights, he said. As social media has taken hold, people become powerless, Först said.
"If you indulge in loneliness, you've been induced into a state that is romanticized and you love it."
"The main thing that binds community is mutual trust," he said. "Ultimately people believe they are important."
Baldwin said facing the ultimate fact of death affirmed one's loneliness. He said "I don't know if it was the truth."
"I see loneliness as a great cop out, as
surrendering control of our own lives."
"We are selling many more rot-tillers to the year, a 100 per cent more," Feinberg said.
Patton said knowing one's self was essential.
Leon said that risks must be taken in order to become a fulfilled person. He said people must be creative with life and enjoy it.
Forer said, everybody had to find his own way to penetrate into life and that this took a great deal of courage. Loneliness is a challenge to state and shouldn't be tolerated, he said.
"Loneliness is a lack of access to love and support from someone who knows you," she
The "Exploration of Loneliness" workshop will continue at 7:30 tonight in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union and at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the American Campus Center, 1629 W. 19th. Reservations are required for the Saturday session.
Leon said that each person had an obligation to love him, and to love others he must lovely himself.
Feinberg the high cost of food was probably the major reason. Another reason for their demand is that roto-tillers reduce costs and lower energy use, activating and caring for the garden, he said.
Gene Nelson, manager of Gro-Rite Feed,
said the demand was about the same as last
week.
Nelson said the cost of roto-tillers was up this year, but he was unsure of how much.
Feinberg said the cost increases for rototillers were negligible, only about $15.
All agreed that the late spring had slowed business and that now was the time begin planning.
Chris Wright, Topeka senior, said he planted his garden three weeks ago.
"THE SNOW WON'T HURT things like radishes, carrots and lettuce," he said.
Wright said he had had his own garden since he was five. He usually gets his seeds from the market.
"The best things for an inexperienced gardener to plant now are beets, carrots, head or leaf lettuce, peas and onions," he said. "You can put you can cut cucumbers and melons."
Wright said it was important to make sure the garden was watered, wedged and aerated.
"1 often come out with more than I can use. Wright said." Last year I had too many cars to drive.
"You can plant all you up through September. In the fall you can plant radishes, carrots and onions for an early spring harvest."
Wright said that gardening saved him money while going to school on a tight schedule and then he to have things like green peppers or tomatoes in order, wouldn't ordinarily buy in stores, he said.
E. H. HUNDLEY and his wife, Bessie, a cook at Hall O' Hall, have been gardening all of their lives. He grows vegetables and she grows flowers. The Hundley's said they gardened because it saved them money and because it "tasted ten times better."
"We can and freeze everything we don't sell or give away." Hundle said.
The Hundleys sell some of their produce.
Hundley said they were organic, not chemical gardeners, although they did use some insecticide on the squash to protect it from bugs.
Hundley said their two best sellers were beets, squash, corn, beans, raspberries and pine nuts.
"I make around $350 over the season on strawberries," he said.
Beginning gardeners should stay with the basics. Hundley said.
"Frogs and toads are much better than any insecticides," Hundley said. "Toads bury themselves in the garden during the spring and then they come out when it's warm."
'PLANT RADISHES, LETTUCE, onions, tomatoes and green beans. Plant these close to the surface; the smaller the seed, the closer to the surface,' he said.
Hundley said that the popular seed catalogs were full of good information. It's important to have good seeds and to keep the garden clean, he said.
"Most important is to cross your fingers and have good weather," he said.
According to J. J. Wilson, director of the National Office of the U.S. Navy for Suffer Plan again this year, the Navy is not likely to
Wilson said the plots were plowed and fenced by the University last semester, so nothing had been done before the residents began planning this year, except to assign the plots.
Residents who had plots last semester are given a chance to obtain the same plot this year, Wilson said, and many are already working on them.
**WE'VE HAD 136 requests for plots.** I link we've had 108 last year, and there has been 125 more.
Wilson said he had received favorable responses from residents who had gardens and who were asked if they wanted to garden again.
"I think it is a good program. I think
we can do better," grocery bill, a bib, "Walton, said."
Gustavo Garcia, Equador senior in civil engineering, participated in the Stouffer gardens last year and thought it was very successful.
García he got most of his fresh vegetables out of the garden. It saves some money, he said, but even more, it was relaxing and nice to work in the garden.
Garcia said the garden plot was a 20-foot square and the University supplied a hoe, two tractors.
"They put water hoses all over so there was always enough water." Garcia said.
Ki Hwan Kim, Korean graduate student, said he had one of the plots at Stouffer last year and it had financially helped his family a little.
"Being the campus fuzz is not easy. I get hassled a lot. Get called names. Have things thrown at me. And that's before I ever leave home in the morning. And that's why I eat over at Sandy's hamburgers a lot."
Kim said they got most of their vegetables from the garden, but it still wasn't enough. However, they did appreciate the garden, he said.
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