June SKI Tips

June is accordion awareness month, as well as candy, dairy and papaya month.
 
Remove tops of spring-flowering bulbs after they have yellowed and withered. 

In early times, crabapples were grown for the fruit to be used for jellies. 

Cashews are rich in copper (key for immunity) and magnesium (healthy blood pressure and blood sugar levels) 

If squirrels are a problem at the bird feeder, try using food they don’t like. While squirrels love birdseed, nuts, sunflower seeds, fruit and corn, they dislike safflower seed nyjer seed and white proso millet. 

A necktie used to be one of the ultimate gifts for Father’s Day. But did you know that neckties could date as far back as 221 B.C.? When Chin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, and his “terracotta army” were discovered, each replica was wearing a necktie.  

99% of Libya is desert. 

In Catholic countries of Europe, Father’s Day has been celebrated on March 19 as Saint Joseph's Day since the Middle Ages. In the United States, Father's Day was founded by Sonora Smart Dodd and celebrated on the third Sunday of June for the first time in 1910.Continue planting carrots, beans, and sweet corn for successive harvest.
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Frederick Law Olmsted is regarded as the father of landscape architecture. He showed the country the importance of public parks, laying the groundwork for America's National Park system.