Mrs. Lena Maier Grows a 2 1/4 pound Carrot and a 4 1/2 pound Beet, November 1963
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Ann Arbor News, November 20, 1963
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Biggest in 37 Years: Mrs. Lena Maier show a carrot and a beet typical of the extraordinary crop she harvested this year from her 115-by-100-foot vegetable garden at 70 Margaret St. in Whitmore Lake. The carrot weighs 2 1/4 pounds and the beet weighs 4 1/2 pounds. Mrs. Maier says the huge vegetables were the rule, rather than the exception, this year in her garden. She has had the same ground under continuous cultivation as a garden since 1926, and has always had normal sized vegetables. She uses commercial fertilizers with high available nitrogen, a leaf mulch and ordinary seeds. None of these factors was changed for her spectacular 1963 crop.
Ann Arbor News, November 20, 1963
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Biggest in 37 Years: Mrs. Lena Maier show a carrot and a beet typical of the extraordinary crop she harvested this year from her 115-by-100-foot vegetable garden at 70 Margaret St. in Whitmore Lake. The carrot weighs 2 1/4 pounds and the beet weighs 4 1/2 pounds. Mrs. Maier says the huge vegetables were the rule, rather than the exception, this year in her garden. She has had the same ground under continuous cultivation as a garden since 1926, and has always had normal sized vegetables. She uses commercial fertilizers with high available nitrogen, a leaf mulch and ordinary seeds. None of these factors was changed for her spectacular 1963 crop.
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1963
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November
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