Consumer Alert/Recall: The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, announces a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. Name of product: Off-Road Motorcycles; Units: About 20,000; Distributor: KTM North America Inc., of Amherst, Ohio; Hazard: The seal around the fuel tank can loosen allowing fuel to leak, posing a fire hazard to consumers; Incidents/Injuries: KTM has received 5,114 reports of leaking fuel tanks. CPSC has received one report of a minor chemical burn due to fuel coming into contact with a consumer's skin; Description: This recall involves KTM off-road motorcycles. KTM is printed on the side of the orange and black motorcycles along with the model. Model numbers included in the recall are: Model year 2005 - 250SX-F; Model year 2006 - 200XC, 200XC-W, 250XCW, 250SX-F, 250XCF-W, 300XC, 300XC-W, 400EXC-G, 450XC-G, 450EXC-G and 525EXC-G; Model year 2007 - 125SX, 144SX, 250SX, 250SX-F, 450SX-F, 505SX-F, 200XC, 250XC, 300XC, 450XC, 200XCW, 250XCW, 300XCW, 400XCW, 450XCW, 525XCW, 250XC-F and 250XCF-W. Sold at: KTM dealers nationwide from November 2004 through April 2007 for between $5,400 and $7,800; Manufactured in: Austria; Remedy: Consumers should stop using these vehicles immediately and contact their local KTM dealer to schedule an appointment for a free repair. Consumers with the recalled vehicles are being sent direct notices from KTM; Consumer contact: For more information, contact KTM at 888-985- 6090 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or visit the firm's web site at www.ktmnorth america.com.

Q: What is the benefit of adding mulch to shrubs and trees?

A: Mulch helps minimize weeds, conserve moisture, moderate soil temperature, and make your yard look good. Mulched plants generally grow much better than similar, un-mulched plants in the same garden. The two basic kinds of mulch are organic, such as shredded leaves and bark, and inorganic, such as gravel.

Q: I want to start a vegetable garden. What are the summer vegetables that I can plant now?

A: Okra, tomatoes, peppers, sweet potatoes, southern peas (black-eye, crowder, purple hull, and zipper cream), malabar spinach, vegetable amaranth, and other hot weather veggies will thrive in our summer heat. Plant them now and mulch the area well to deter weeds. Keep them well watered because the hot weather increases their need for moisture.

Q: When should I prune my azaleas and roses?

A: Prune spring-flowering shrubs soon after they complete their flowering cycle. This includes azaleas, camellias, roses that bloom only in spring, spirea, forsythia, and flowering quince. Keep the natural shape of the plant in mind as you prune, and avoid excessive cutting except where necessary to control size. Hybrid tea and grandiflora roses should be pruned in early spring just before new growth starts. Throughout the blooming season, groom the plants by removing old flowers as soon as they have passed their peak. Floribunda roses have a shrubby habit and pruning is generally confined to maintaining plant shape and vigor throughout the blooming season.

Q: How short should I cut my grass?

A: Set the lawn mower a little higher for summer mowing. The turf grass will develop deeper roots and be a more resilient plant if you don't mow the turf too short. St. Augustine and centipede can be mowed at a 2-1/2 to 3 inch height, while zoysia and standard types of Bermuda will do fine at 1-1/2 to 2 inches tall.

Q: I'm looking for a flower that will bloom throughout the summer.

A: Gaura is a sun-loving perennial very much at home in our hot, southern summers. It produces a cloud of ½ inch, four petaled flowers that appear in clumps on the tips of long, upright stems from midspring through the first fall frost. Floating above the foliage and waving in the breeze, they look like fluttering butterflies. Gaura is a great cottage garden perennial. It grows to a height of 18 to 36 inches. Trim the long flower stems back to the foliage height and they will repeat bloom through the summer.

Q: My garden has a low damp area. Are there any flowers that would do well there?

A: Plant moisture lovers like the rosy-flowered swamp milkweed, Joe-pye weed, forget-me-nots, bee balm, and meadow sweet, cannas, ironweed, turtlehead, swamp sunflower, scarlet hibiscus, Louisiana irises and Japanese irises.

If you have questions or problems with services or products regulated by the Georgia Department of Agriculture you may write Consumer Services, 19 Martin Luther King Drive, Room 224, Atlanta, Georgia 30334 or call 1-800-282-5852.