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Isn’t this the most. wonderful: weather. you can. remember! The
gardeners ‘love it, the corn loves it, and the squashes. The peas aren’t
quite as enthusiastic, and the lettuce looks a trifle limp, but long may it
last, sez I!

Before. going on to anything else, don’ t forget. that the Sidney and
“North Saanich annual garden show takes place Aug. 11-and 12, andl
am sure most of you will have something lovely in the way of flowers,
or something either very large, or most unusual, or something just

~about perfect in the way of vegetables that you could enter.

Please do... besides being lots of fun, this show gives you a chance
to show off what you have done this year. If you don’t havea garden,
please just come along and enjoy the displays and the tea. The show is
in the usual place Sanscha Hall, and entries may be placed either the
evening prior to the show, or very early Aug. 11.

- Another item of interest to local’ gardeners is the upcoming
‘Saanichton Fair, and if you are interested in entering anything from
your darling budgie to your largest potato, a catalogue for entries may
be had by calling the fair office at 652-3314 any. Ten and Friday
from 10.a.m. until 4 p.m.
~The fair is held: over Labour. Day weekend, aia entry forms for-this
should. be in by. Aug 24, although. the: entries themselves are to be
brought to the fairgrounds on Aug. 31.

THE REVIEW

I won’t go through the whole list, but found enough zucchini bisque
to float a battleship, enough applesauce to garnish every chicken on the
peninsula, and enough broad beans to furnish every Englishman in
Victoria with a fine case of indigestion, These, plus a lot of other
goodies are now in a large box in the freezer waiting for ‘‘himself’’ to
take them in to the ‘‘Mustard Seed” in Victoria for distribution to those
in-need.

Most: of: you will have seen “the interesting article in last week? S
Review about growing grapes on the peninsula. There is no doubt they
do well here... . we have three vines that have just about taken over the
house. . . two of them are purple ones and the other is a ‘‘Himrod”’
that doesn’ t produce in quite the same abundance, but the grapes are
white and seedless and absolutely, delicious.

If you have grape vines; now-is the time to thin. out the chisters.
otherwise you will end up (as we do every year) with tons of sweet small
grapes, instead of some big fat bunches of big fat grapes. This year I
swear | am going to be fierce and cut off at least half the clusters.

Something that might interest:those of you with apricot trees is the
advice given by the department of agriculture — that apricots be picked
before they are fully ripe, and allowed to ripen off the tree rather like
Bartlett pears. I think we will pick half of them, and allow the rest to
tree-ripen, since there. is nothing lovelier to taste than a warm ripe
apricot, fresh from the tree. . . well, peaches come mighty close!

A number of questions asked this week might interest. you and

“provide a useful bit of information. One caller was anxious about a_
young maple tree that was. changing colour already. This tree was

planted ina berm (raised bed) and.is almost certainly suffering froma

_ lack of water during this long dry spell.

One thing that might be done with all shrubs and trees is to dig a ditch

around each one out at the ‘‘drip line’, or hill up the soil so that the |

shrub is sitting in a sort of basin, then fill this hollow regularly, with
water. The alternative would be to purchase a ‘‘Ross Root. Feeder’’

~ (and they are expensive) and water your trees down at root level.

Someone having trouble with garden peas (the leaves were twisted
and discoloured) probably has a disease on the vines called (hold your
breath) pea’ enation mosiac virus. This is relatively common on the.
-lower. part of the Island unfortunately, and the best thing to do is plant.
a resistant strain of.peas.. We had rotten luck with peas last year due to
that particular virus, and this year have grown “‘Olympia”’ oS
seed) with considerable success.

| don’t like the flavor as much as-‘our “Little Marvels’’, but I suppose
you can’t have everything. We will try a really early crop of ‘Little’

Marvels next year, and use the ‘‘Olympias’’ for a later crop since this:

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Cleaned the freezer and as usual found several treasures buried down
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mosiac business seems to attack peas planted later i in the season.

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summer a brave little man who would have preferred to be studying the’
tide pools. of his. beloved Sagami Bay had made an almost impossible,

but wise | ecision n and. was aning. in a bunker with his advisors making ‘

history.
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known as Showa (‘‘Enlightened Peace’’) in Japan.

ne - disastrous conflict to an end.

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‘They. must: have. toasted survival too, survival: to do: unheard ‘of.
things, Could they. possible have dreamed that they would sail under the.

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