THE REVIEW

Wednesday, March 19, 1986

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_ GARDEN FENCE :

HELEN LANG

This week a whole collection of ‘‘bits and pieces.”’
First of all | had an anxious phone call from Nell Bolster,
saying, ‘‘In your article about pruning roses you said, ‘Make

all cuts just below an outwa
mean just ABOVE?”’ My sc
heard for miles, because, of

rd facing leaf-node’.. . . did you
ream of anguish could have been
course she is absolutely right. If

you did as I said you’!l end up with a whole lot of little stubs

that will die, right above a
grow inward .

future branch that will probably

. nothing could be worse. Oh dear, you’!! kill

me I’m sure but you really must go out and cut these wretched

things off to a point where

there is an outward facing node.

This is a perfect example of that old saying, ‘‘One picture is
worth a thousand words.’’ Thank you, Nell, and to all of you

an abject apology!

One of our friends who has just returned from an extended
tour of the Southern hemisphere very kindly brought. back.a
garden column from the New Zealand Herald. Its all about
club-root. It seems they have at least some of the problems

there that we. do’ here and

their. treatment of club-root. is

somewhat similar to ours — that. being heavy applications of

dime: to all areas to be planted with the susceptable vegetables
and flowers. These are cabbages, cauliflowers,
nips, plus wallf lowers, stocks and

sprouts, broccoli, Swede tur
candytuf t.

It'is'a bit late for us this year, as the recommendation is

_ heavy applications of lime three months in advance of plan- .

ting, but the columnist suggests dipping seedlings in benomyl

before. planting and this is

something new. He also suggests.
treatment of soil with dazomet, one f ungicide Canada does —

not. have up to this point anyway. It is found in England,

Australia and New Zealand,
introduced © here. Perhaps

but for some reason has not been
for our. own protection, who

‘that since it is planted only a couple of feet from a cedar tree

“BLAST!” (or even something worse!) This is usually a result

Brussels —

knows? Meanwhile if you have been troubled in the past with
this horrible disease in your garden, make sure you don’t
plant members of the same family in the area used for those
plants last year, substituting peas or beans.

-This. columnist also suggests you provide the best possible
drainage, burn all diseased vegetation, ‘‘discarding any seedl-
ings of doubtful vigor, and clean both footwear. and garden
tools after working with infected plants or soil.’’ All of this
makes good sense, of course, but makes gardening so much
work that I’m sure some of you think ‘‘The heck with it, Vl.
buy those vegetables and grow something less troublesome!”’

Some questions from another dear lady who was curious
about her Mock Orange shrub which for the past two years”
flowered but soon afterwards its leaves turned brown. ‘As she
says, ‘‘The poor thing.looks just terrible.’’ We finally decided

Sidney Jazz Society members
want to put the peninsula on the
map.

At the invitation of Will Con-
nally, founding member of the
Fort Lauderdale Hot Jazz and
Alligator Gumbo Society, Bob
Ward attended the national
convention .of. the American
Federation of Jazz Societies in
Washington, D.C. Mar..7 and
8.

Jazzin

if up

Connally, who plays a mini
trumpet with some of the best,
visited Sidney during the Jazz
Mini Fest.

“The Sidney Jazz Society is
also planning for the second in-
ternational Jazz Festival
scheduled for Aug. 1-3.

After a successful first year,
members: expect the.crowds to
double this summer, attracting
up to 6,000 visitors to the event.

it is likely suffering from a tack of.moisture ... just too
much competition for water from those greedy cedar roots.
After it flowers this year she will move it to a sunny location
where it won’t have to fight for every drink of water all sum-
mer.

She also has a climbing rose that forms buds, but never suc-
ceeds in flowering. This is a condition aptly called ‘‘Bud
blast’’ . When the bud doesn’t open you say, ‘‘Oh

FAMILY RESTAURANT

CHINESE FOOD

of not enough water, so it’s out with the hose and. a good |
weekly soaking during dry weather. A. cup of wood ash
around the root area is also a good idea.

She also has a Persian violet that is doing poorly. You will
find this listed under Arabian violet in most-books. We decid-
ed that since these delightful houseplants grow very rapidly
and it has been in the same pot for a year, that when flower-
ing slows down or ceases, it should be repotted using a stan-
dard potting mix into a pot one size larger. Perhaps some
stemcuttings could taken and rooted so she will have new
plants coming along.

Something | discovered while trying to.sort Out some snap-

_dragon seedlings was that if they are growing too close
together, you can lift out a small clump of seedlings on the tip
of a fork and immerse them in water, then it becomes easy to
separate them. They may then be very tenderly lifted out of
the water and planted. The snaps | transplanted last week us- -
ing this method are doing beautifully, bless their tiny hearts!

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