Wednesday, May 30, 1984

By. tieien Lang

By putting in the cauliflower seed so early, and getting
the small seedlings transplanted outside in March, 1 had
hoped to avoid the dreaded root maggots, but no such
luck!

I have already hiked three piants out of the garden, and
they were almost.completely rootless. Now some of the
other. plants:don’t look too lively, so, with great reluctance
I went out with a bucket of Diazinon mixture and gave the
survivors a good and thorough treatment, pouring the
liquid down the stem into the ground. Then I‘hilled up each

cauliflower, the way you do potatoes, hoping that each one
will make new roots above the damaged old ones.

Because I. had these plants out so early I didn’t bother
with the tar paper circles (like bread-and-butter plates) that
you are supposed to put around each to stop the flies that
lay the eggs, and become those hungry magots, that in the
end kill your plants. These flies lay eggs at the base of
cauliflowers, cabbages, broccolies, Brussels pious. and
turnips.

Il am sure we have mentioned this. before, but if you can.

stand to hear it again, here we go. Take.a piece of tar paper
(or.an old .duroid or ‘asphalt shingle) about eight inches in
diameter, and cut a small. hole in the. centre, just big
enough to fit around the stem. Now take your scissors and
make a series of short cuts from the centre toward the
outside of the eee so that the stalk will have room to
expand. .

At this point youcan.cut from the outside of the circle to
the centre, and fit this little gadget around your plant. Put.

the tarpaper-circle firmly on the surface of the soil, so that:
“none of these sneaky flies can get underneath, nor close to.

~“the'stem of your plant to lay their rotten eggs.
1 don’t think 1 have mentioned before that this spring

“himself”? © played ‘“‘logger’’ for a: couple’ of hours, and:

“chopped down several thriving wild poplar trees that were
definitely sending roots into the vegetable garden. To our
horror he had created a monster! We had got rid of the big»
trees, but the roots immediately sent out scores of young»
.- poplar trees, which grew ata frightening pace, and until .

ae recently showed every'sign of. taking. ‘over that whole area.

Aboute a month PaeO, 1 took: a small at ofa lethal her- |

Two fellows were standiie outside t the asylum. They. q
"had just been released, passed the tests at last: and were }

bicide called ‘‘Round-up’? mixed about half-and-half
(much to strong for normal usage, but wild poplars are far
from ‘‘normal’’, being almost indestructable!)

I took this mixture out and carefully painted every leaf.
Naturally I missed a couple of sapplings, but all the rest are
dead. This has to be powerful stuff, but one thing that can -
be said for it is that the chemical doesn’t survive in the soil,
and that has to bea plus.

Please watch for caterpillars’ nests, that silken webbing
full. of the yellow and brown ones. .They seem to be
plentiful this year, not only on-the garden trees, but in any

’ wild brush as well. There isn’t much you can do about the
|, ones in the bush, but we can’t allow them on our fruit and

ornamental trees.
If you have a large tree and you can reach that high, you

* might cut the ‘‘nest’’ out of the tree and burn it. Otherwise
; you will have to wrap a rag around a long stick, light-the

cloth, and try to burn the nest. If this is imposible you
might try using the hose, with the nozzle adjusted to give
the strongest spray, and try to wash them out. One thing
about caterpillars, they don’t seem smart enough to climb
back up the trees.

My neighbour has a weeping birch tree that is not only
beautiful, but. very tall, I saw-her outside struggling to
reach something’ in the tree;.and went across to see if’ |
might help. Sure enough there were several caterpillar nests
up nice and high (which means ‘‘out of reach’’), but there
was a huge one fairly close to the ground, so we got busy,
found.a long piece of wood, wrapped an old shirt around
the end, tied it on with wire, sprinkled the rag with paint
“thinner, Jit it;
cacoon.

It only took a couple of seconds to realize we weren’t
burning caterpillars, but something else entirely! It. was a
magnificent ‘large bird’s nest, carefully wound into the
triling end of a limb. We were both just sick for fear we
had either fried the eggs, or par-boiled a lot of.babies, but
the almighty is: kind, and within a-very short time the
parents came back, and we have since seen them carrying
small green worms into the nest, so we didn’ t hurt them
-after all.

It must have been warm in ‘there for awhile though! The
birds were bush-tits, which can’t weigh more than an ounce
-or two ... and that nest is just enormous. We will get.a
better look at it this fall when the leaves come off-the trees.

1 had the tomatoes outside May 24 hardening. them off,
and they will be ready to put out into the garden by June 1,
if. it is warm.enough by then. Also have more peas (Stoke’s
-““Olympia’’. this time) which will go into the Broune to-
day.

moved right into the middle of the rows, and they are no
longer so beautiful. And the cats weren’t even ours!
‘Have decided to takea chance and put some corn seed to

pre-sprout (Dominion seed, called ‘‘Ilini Northern Xtra.
Sweet’’). .This will go into a bed well-removed from the...
house, on the North. side. The corn we. will put:in a little:
later (Stokes: Kandy Korn EH) will go into a bed.on the.

~ South: side. This: will: revents ‘the: corn. from
pollinating. eae BE

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and I happily hoisted it up to the giant.

I-think I:told you the ‘‘Little Marvel”” peas are in flower.
~Lwas so proud of those peas, but there was acat fight that

| free. Free to savour the joys of normality. “Uncon- |

“fined, the world was their oyster. But, how does one
begin after all those years? re

They decided to- go their different ways and meet
back here exactly four weeks later to compare. fortunes
or misfortunes.

So they, separated and four weeks passed. John
“stood waiting until finally Paul came along driving, a
big white Cadillac convertible. ..

“My goodnes s,”’ cried John, ‘‘you ‘sure soon made
your mark. I’m broke, couldn’t even find a job. How. |
I did you do it?” “Well”, said. Paul, ‘‘when we parted,

Iwas walking down the road when this Cadillac pulled
1 up.and a beautiful petite blonde driver - tight sweater:

type - asked me if L wanted a lift, Of course I jumped
in-and she drove down a quiet lane, stopped the car;
‘pulled off her sweater and said | could have anything I:
wanted, So Ltook the ear’.

John cogitated for a moment and then said “y think
you were ver y, wise, l doubt i if- her sweater would have.
fitted you.” "

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THE REVIEW

A-memorial mass was
held last Friday afternoon
at St. -Elizabeth’s. Roman
Catholic. church, 3rd"St.,
Sidney, for: Brian. Michael
Coats, who went
and is persumed drowned
following a boating mishap
south of Porlier. Pass’ May
19,

Coates, who would have
turned 22° on July 16, was
aboard the 35-foot . vessel
Black Fin with five other
Sidney men but was alone

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missing.

Outdoorsman Brian Coats was apparently swept
overboard in Porlier Pass.

on. deck when he was. ap-
parently swept.overboard.

Ganges. RCMP. said’ a
Federal - Fisheries: boat
received a ‘‘mayday”’ call
from. the’ vessel: Traveling
Lady around 6:10 ‘p.m.
reporting that .a crew
member from the Black Fin
had gone missing.

The. fisheries. boat
responded anda search was
launched. through «the
Rescue Coordination
Centre utilizing RCMP and
Coast Guard vessels as well

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The search, hampered by
vigorous tide activity in
Porlier Pass, was called off
after two days.

Coats lived at home, 9651
Ist.- St.; Sidney, with his
parents Dave and Pat. and

brothers Barry and Blair.
His mother described him
sports

as a “real and

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outdoors person. He loved
all sports and really enjoyed
fishing and camping.’”*

He played soccer last year
with the Sidney Soccer Club
and was a rugby. player-at

Parkland ‘school where he

graduated in 1980.

He = was. extremely
popular. and had 'a‘lot of
friends says his: mother,
who always: remember. him
for his big boyish grin.

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