Page B12 . . . THE REVIEW 9781-2nd St., Sidney B.C. Wednesday, July 27, 1988 &-
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OVER THE
GARDEN FENCE

HELEN LANG >
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This is perfect weather to clean out your freezer ... the only
sure: way to cool off in this sudden blast of tropical heat. (It
makes me smile to think that only a week ago I was lamenting
the lack of sunshine.)

Incidentally, if you spray the inside walls of your freezer with
Pam, or wipe them down with cooking oil altcr cleaning, ice
won’t collect on the walls.

Hot as it now is, we should be thrilled. Things like com,
tomatoes, peppers and squashes will put on some weight, and set
lots of fruit. Yipee! sez I. Now all we need to.do is keep every-
thing watered.

Hanging baskets will. likely need water twice a day, and
hydrangeas, especially, a deep drenching every day or so.

Yesterday when it was 32 C I was horrified to sce one of our
hydrangeas with its leaves all hanging limp in the afternoon sun.

1 know it shouldn’t be in the afternoon sun, but, honestly, there .
was no other place to put it.

I sprayed the leaves and poured water to the roots, and by eve-
ning it had completely recovered. Today, so far, it looks spright-
ly, so [ guess it just needed a good long drink.

Those of you with delphiniums whose flowering is now over
should remove all flowering stems right back close to the soil,
sprinkle several handfuls of lime around the basc of each plant,
another couple handfuls of 6-8-6, (or half the amount of 13-16-
10), or a gallon of 20-20-20, over the roots, watering both the

_ lime and fertilizer in.

You should see the beginnings of new growth shortly, and in
the fall another burst of blossoms. Lovely things, delphiniums!

I promised a couple of weeks ago to give you some ideas
gleaned from a booklet published by Organic Gardening, regard-
ing strawberries. Ken Morgan, the writer, maintains that the very
best strawberries always come from one year old plants, ic. from —
runners produced this year.

He ruthlessly rototills.in all old plants, keeping only the runners
‘which he has guided into the spaces betwcen this ycar’s rows.

He rototills these spaces five times after spreading. rotted
manure: and lots of peatmoss. This. loosens the soil and in-
corporates the manure and peat, giving the runners a perfect spot
_ lo grow.

~ Since we garden in raised beds there isn re a “hope of-using a
» Rototiller. Our plan is: to-put a pot of soil under: the best of the

“in ‘the soil by means of a hairpinned-shaped piece of wire. : :
-When.-we: have: enough rooted runners. we will dig out the
pares: “plants and: go to’ work on: the soil: with a’ good old-

al exactly ‘the same depth as they are their pots, and d Kept w atered Bn
~ until fall rains start.
Mr. Morgan suggests a light mulch be spread every. two weeks: Y
“until. winter, until you have a one inch covering between. your *: |
_rows. He doesn’t approve of mulching with straw, hay or.leaves,

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“runners, allowing them to root in these, holding the baby plants. | =

“fashioned shovel, adding the afore-mentioned manure and peal as — || of
“we. dig. When this is done: the baby Strawberries. will be planted nie

_as he feels sen are too heavy, s SO, although he didn’ ue come right |

Gardeners have reason to love the sun

out and say, I guess he must use grass clippings -- only if you

haven't becn using Weed and Feed, remember.

I told you we had covered the strawberry bed with Reemay

. well, that was only half-true. The
second, and secret, reason was that it also hid our sad-looking

cloth to keep out the birds ..

plants from view.

We have the most beautiful bed of lavatera in full bloom right
now. This is a flower I most sincerely recommend, Last year the
flowering period was relatively short, so, as insurance, this year I
have petunias, ageratum and lobelia mixed in, so that when the
lavatera dies back the bed won’t be completely empty. I think Pil
also put in a few more lavatera seeds in hopes of a late display of
this glorious pink, satiny flower.

Last week we were given a great big bag of broad beans by Len
(who picked) and Anna (who delivered) Mulholland. This year
for the first time I didn’t grow any, so their gift was greatly ap-
preciated, especially by ‘‘himself’’ who is addicted. Broad beans
take up a lot of garden space, and this year we opted to grow

corn instead.

Those beans were so tasty, maybe we made the wrong choice!
Len had no trouble with those awful black aphids that adore
broad beans. His successful ploy: was to plant penny royal (of the
mint family) between the rows, Nary a black aphid appeared!

Would the young woman who called me about her dying
junipers please call me back. In the thrash that gocs on here, I’ve

lost her name and number.

Common
household items

The microwave oven. and the
video cassette recorder (VCR)
have become common household
items.

A Statistics Canada study on

household facilities.and income.
for 1987: found VCRs in 45 per

cent of homes and microwaves in
just over 43 per cent.
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