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MAY JUNE

Winter's cold is long past, early spring showers have moistened the soil, and sunny days grace the garden. This is nature's most exciting time, as miracles of germination and growth occur daily. Let growing concerns cast care aside!

Seed-Savers Alert

by Peter Hemingson

If you're interested in the preservation of heritage varieties of vegetables, mark the dates October 4-6 on your calendar, because on that long weekend the National Association for Gardening will hold a conference on the topic at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. According to the February issue of Gardens for All (the association's monthly magazine, available with membership for $15 a year), the purposes of the conference are twofold: to help improve our understanding of how to locate and save seeds of heirloom varieties, and to help dramatize the necessity for preserving genetically diverse seed stocks. To receive additional information about the conference, write to Kit Anderson at Gardens for All, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington, VT 05401. To join the association, send $15 to GFA Member Subscription Service, Depot Square, Peterborough, NH 03458. And if you want access to sources of heirloom varieties, be sure to join Kent Whealy's Seed Savers Exchange (203 Rural Ave., Decorah, IA 52101; $10 a year . . . and well worth it!).

GARDEN COMPETITIONS

Let's assume you've already entered your 1985 garden design in MOTHER'S contest for the best individual or family-size food garden (see page 93 in MOTHER N0. 92 for the announcement and page 5 in this issue for an update). What's that? You've got more to share? A community garden? Well, you're in luck: There's still time to enter your community garden in the American Community Gardening Association/Glad Wrap contest. The grand prize is $1,500. . .and that'll buy a lot of seeds! Information about the competition is available from AC GA, P.O. Box 93147, Milwaukee, WI 53202 — but hurry: Entries close on June 1. The winning gardens will be announced at the annual meeting of the ACGA, to be held in New York City, October 13-18. (If, by the way, you're a professional community-garden-program leader, you might want to consider affiliating with the association. Call John Royal or Steve Brackman for details at 414/224-4854. Information on the annual meeting agenda is available from Tom Fox, Neighborhood Open Space Coalition, 72 Reade St., New York, NY 10007, 212/513 - 7555.)

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