Page B2 By Helen L. ang. 7 Something I think will interest all gardeners is the Opening of a specialty shop devoted to gardening needs, Stressing the unusual and the very best in things, like gardening tools..1 understand there is also to be a collection of exotic plants. This shop has opened in Bastion -Square, next to: Leafhil! Gallery, and should be. worth going to see. It is called ‘‘Dig That’’, and I hope to go into: Victoria next week to see the shop and tell you more about it in the next column. Had a-call from a woman this past week who was concerned about the leaves on her beets. Some of these were covered with sort of brown papery spots, caused, I think, by an-invasion of leaf miners.. We had the same trouble last year with not only beet leaves, but also some of the parsnip leaves as well, and I see we now have some of the same sorts of spots on the Maltese Cross (Lychnis). ‘The best- thing to do if you find these sickly looking leaves, is to cut them off and put them in the garbage can, and look around your garden to see if you have any of the - weed called ‘‘Lamb’s quarters’’ in residence. This weed is -the ‘host’? plant for the leaf miner, and we have enough ~< troubles without encouraging any more bugs! Chop_ the : ‘Lambs Quarters out of the garden and get rid of it quick! _ One of. the msot successful, and least difficult plants we. have in the garden is Sweet William. The one thing it insists: other than that it seems to be. on is lots of sunlight . perfectly ‘willing, to’ bloom most of the summer with very little water. and no fussing or fertilizing on your part.” ‘July 7° at: welcome. THE REVIEW two. years, and then-die), but since it seeds itself most willingly, you always seem to have new plants coming. I have high hopes of giving you.a recipe for the very best jelly we have ever tasted. The label on the jars says ‘‘blue- berry-raspberry-strawberry-rhubarb-blackberry-boysen- berry’’. jelly, and. since these plants don’t all fruit at the same time the woman who made-the jam must pick and.” freeze these things as they. come into season,. making. the jelly when she finally has all the ingredients. I can’t seem to get her on the telephone, but maybe yaqu could start to. save some strawberries, and raspberries this week .. . | have a hunch that the amounts may quite safely be varied according to amounts of fruit you are able to pick. I hope to have some Oregon grape berries to add to a future jelly (just to make it tart) but when I went out:to pick them found that the birds had been there ahead of me and there wasn’t a single berry to be found. Since this is the first year our black currant bushes have borne fruit, and there aren’t really enough berries to do anything much with, f hope to pick them and add them to other berries for a mixed fruit jelly. The polyanthus that I worried and wept over when I put the seed in this past spring — they.took ages to germinate and were so puny when they came up I feared for their lives —. are now beautiful big healthy plants, and beginning to flower right in their pots. I know they should go into a shady part of the garden, but we have so many slugs that I hate-.to put them into. the soil. The pots seem: safer somehow. Stamp club ; | #1-2328 BEACON to meet Sidney. Seniors’. Stamp Club. will meet 1:30. p.m. the. Senior ~ Citizens’. Activity Centre, 10030. Resthaven... All stampers and visitors a FREE SHOP ESTIMATES Ps Sweet ‘William is,a bi-ennial (meaning it will flower for k, coun off his clothes:and. was ‘standing there i in} : his little shorts when the bedroom door opened and the lady appeared with twolittleboys. os ~“There,’’ ‘she. said, ‘that’s what: you'll look like : -when n you grow up if Fyou don’ teat your greens, ee | WATCH FOR IT ‘SOON IH E 1 Nn: ‘antiqué: collectables eatin eS ‘Show and sale.is slated for. | ..- July 28 and:29 at the Juan | _-de Fuca Recreation Centre, _ “