16 PENINSULA NEWS REVIEW Victoria International Airport in 60th year An exciting event line-up starts Canada Day and finishes with an airport wide birthday celebration on October 22. Celebrating 60 years of history and aviation achieve- ments, the Victoria International Airport, the Victoria Air- port Authority and the British Columbia Aviation Museum Society plan several events in 1999: ¢ 443 Squadron Open House - July 1, Canada Day Open house at 443 Squadron Hangar located on the West Side of the airport. Everyone is invited. © Vintage aircraft visit - August 13 to 15 A fully restored original Trans-Canada Airlines Lockheed 10A 1937 airliner on public display at the British Columbia Aviation Museum. 2 Annual British Columbia Aviation Museum Open’ House and Hangar Dance - August 21 es “cover. from ‘the: last. five: toma-. toes in the. two-tier, tire efforts we used so'suc- ; ready i in bloom. -T’ve™ also. planted : ‘the: “transplant 8 shock. Two of them are al- : essfully ‘last’ year: Before © ) planting them | mixed in a. _-half-shovel of well rotted -chicken manure, some sea- » = weed, a handful of lime, an- ~ ‘they are a bit larger, and I. have their bed ready. The. | first bean seeding was not - ‘other of bone meal and a’ ~ sprinkling of: ‘rock: phos- phate... When they were set in, up to the first true leaves (deeply). I poured about -. two cups of 10-52-10 (trans- plant solution) around each one, and covered plants | with newspaper to shield them from the sun. This pa- per is left on for two days to _ give them a chance to re- WEED AND CLOVER CONTROL PROGRAM Spring and Fall ~ "Two Services seedling squashes raised in” ‘the greenhouse and some - bean ~ seedlings. The rest of the. of © the “runner: latter will have to wait until very successful, ° Last year I recall having the same difficulty, and the. young woman at “Firbanks. Farm”. says they never , plant runner beans until the middle of June! 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Other events and activities to be announced as the big day approaches. For more information, visit the following web sites: British Columbia Aviation Museum at: http://www.bcam.net/medrell-htm Victoria International Airport - http: / /www.cyyj.ca/ longer, although: they now. ie day just to keep them alive:* ‘Stewart and Joan’ M. ber. you were to make a very of a five-pound coffee tin, top tightly with tin foil, and then set the tin close beside (say) a tomato plant, ‘planting. sontainers I have a lot of home-grown bed- - ding plants this year, but the greenery of tulips, daf- fodils and hyacinths in our: containers refuses to die. Even the thought of dig- | ging out all those bulbs is ; exhausting, so our poor it to keep your plant moist for about a week at a time. (depending on the size of ~ the hole you've drilled, of course.) 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