Bring your

zucchini to
PNE contest

REMEMBER THE ‘gona ole
days’ when grandma used to bring
her prize vegetables to the fair?
Those days are oack at the All-
Time, Good-Time Fair as the
Pacific Nationa’ Exhibition pres-
ents its first annual Great Zuc-
chini Contest for non-commercial
home gardeners.

The PNE Grea: Zucchin Con-
test is easy to enter and easy to
win, There is no pre-registration
and no entry fee. Just plant some
zucchini in your backyard. win-
dow box or patio garden and give
it lots of tender ioving care over
the next few months.

Then, attach your name. ad-
dress and phone number to your
biggest zucchini and bring 1 to the
PNE Agrodome. Thursday, Aug.
16. Gardeners must come in Gate
6, off Renfrew, and the gate staff
will direct you from there.

If you bring in this year’s
heaviest zucchini. you'll receive a
handsome plaque ard a $100 gift
certificate from Canada Safeway.
There will also be Safeway gift
certificates of $50 and $25 for the
second and third heaviest zuc-
chini. All zucchinis. entered
become the property of the Pacific
National Exhibition.

The Great Zucchini contest is
just one reason the 1990 PNE
vegetable show will be bigger and
better than ever. Another is the
greatly expanded commercial

vegetable competition. Open to
commercial growers producing at
least $5,000 product/year, the
competition features over two
dozen categories, including garden
and hothouse vegetables, root
crops and mushrooms, as well as
new classes for fruit corn and
blueberries.

Fruit and blueberries will be
judged Friday. Aug. 17, miscella-
neous vegetables on Tuesday,
Aug. 21, mushrooms and root
crops on Friday, Aug. 24, and
hothouse vegetables on Tuesday.
Aug. 28. Names of the 1990 PNE
vegetable competition winners wil!
then be sent to all local super-
market chains and produce
distributors.

Fair-goers can see all the
medal-winning vegetables, in-
cluding those big home-grown
zucchini, in the Best of B.C. tent
in front of the Agrodome. At 7
p.m. on judging days, judges will
explain judging criteria and pro-
vide reasons for the placirgs so
consumers will know what to look
for when shopping for produce.

A good time to visit the Best of
B.c. tent will always ke 7 p.m.
because non-judging evenings will
feature unique produce
demonstrations, including tips on
the use of Chinese vegetables, ed-
ible flowers and miniature
vegetables to add color and varie-
ty to everyday meals.

Vacuum efficiently
DIFFERENT MODELS FOR DIFFERENT JOBS

THE MOST important part of
your carpet maintenance program
is vacuuming.

There are three kinds of
vacuum cleaners. One kind has a
beater bar built into the vacuum
or into a speciai head attachment
to beat the carpet. while it
vacuums. The other kind relies on
suction alone ana should be used
only for surface cleaning or
carpeting with long pile yarns (ex-
cept for high air velocity commer-
cia) vacuums which have the
power to clean in depth). The
third type is a central vacuum
system. For the best cleaning
results this vacuum should be
equipped with a beater bar
powerhead.

Vacuum cleaners with beater
bars are essential for thorough
cleaning of regular types of
carpeting, particularly if the pile is
dense. The head of the vacuum
should be flat and smoot to pre-
vent snagging the carper. Keep
brushes clean and replace them
when they are worn out.

Vacuum dirt bags shoula be
thrown out when halt full. The
suction for the vacuusn 1. created
in the air space of the dir. bag
and if you (ili up the ai space,
there will not be enough suction
power to draw in all the dirt.

if your vacuum has a height ad-
justment (to compensate for dif-
ferent carpet heights), set the dial

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until there is a slight resistance to
pushing and pulling. Move the
vacuum slowly oack and forth to
get the dirt particles that are
buried deep in the pile. The more
dense and thick the pile, the more
thorough the cleaning needed and
the more slowly you need to go to
give the vacuum time to draw up
the dirt particles.

You may vacuum in any direc-
tion but the best cleaning action is
probably obtained by working
against the lay (or nap) of the
pile. If a uniform surface appear-
ance is desired, finish the vacuum-
ing in one direction. If a random
appearance is desired, finishing
can be done in any direction.

Daily Care: Light vacuuming or
carpet sweeping is usually needed
daily in heavy traffic areas. This is
to pick up most of the surface
dust, fint and other particles.
Carpet sweepers, canister or cen-
tral vacuums with a floor brush
are satisfactory for this quick once
over.

Weekly Care: For best results,
carpets need a thorough cleaning
once per week, with a vacuum
equipped with a brush and beater
bar or a very high air velocity
commercia) vacuum. The beater
agitates the pile to shake out
abrasive dirt particles buried
below the surface. Move the
vacuum slowly to give the dirt
time to be shaken loose and be
drawn up by the vacuum suction.

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