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‘THE REVIEW 72nd St., Sidney B.C.

| Wednesday, February 17,1988

and loves to iry new th

. Mr... Luft, who lives on Amherst Street in

called to ask me if I thought it it would be safe haieties _
z00d soil and cedar

rose bushes in a mixture of clay, gO
shavings. |
I nearly had a fit! It seems that he was advised to do
by someone he felt should know, but somehow he
chips, as well he

NCC | .
bel Those things are not designed for garden use; good -

, fire-starters, yes, but litte else that I can think of.
Just.in case 1 was wrong (it happt
Johnathon Kelly, . we of Sidney’ 's parks depart

nkfully, Mr. Luff hadn't

is black-spot and mildew!

| “Talking about that, may. I suggest | that you try some- .
thing that really seemed to help in our garden. After |

pruning your roses (which could be done soon, since

liquid soap (I use Sunlight) as a sticker: spreader. .
Before spraying, rake up every dead and
_can find, and then drench your bushes

the soil well | out from each bush. Benom myl is ¢

had since puting the roses . pel
“Talked to Reg Davis this week. He is a keen | a

others. -

7 a _He gets his soed potatoes 5 from an Ontario firm éalled a
Becker 2. #1, Trout Creek, Ont., VOH 2L0, and Reg
ed suggests that you order whole potatoes, rather than seed:

Good for starting fires, 1 no

: spuds free, as well. I don’t know how they can af’

~ Pvée-seen. The Watt home is on
all the wild gales we get at th
is!) 1 checked with
nent;

planted the TOses, s so all is well, All he has to worry about — |

o be almost here) mix up a solution of
ater, adding, at the last, a few drops of |

id dying leaf you
id the ground un-
“der them with your Benomyl / water mixture, cove

is meskes een ude,
trying different varieties of potatoes, and this year is ~—

ot . - . slug damage on the crocus, and the iris stylosa, a I
_ going to grow banana Potatoes, as well as a number of

c a “hind as they travel, or the signs of tooth marks on the

t growing | roses |
eyes which have the nasty habit of rotting before they —
“The company’s

price-list is free, and they ship the

do so, with mail costs so high. Reg says they handle 37
varieties, SO ners should be something there to Please
even the most fini
Reg. also sug ted ‘that local gardeners really should —
ps n seetil warieees,

cation
08527, ‘and their arouse costs ie

I’m not sure if this would be in American funds or if
Canadian would do, but I’d send a cheque in Canadian.

money and sce what happens. That’s whatTam todo,

Bunty Watt has one of the loveliest winter heather beds .
the waterfront, subject to
time of year, but that.
heather is simply beautiful. She says all she does is give _
it a light clipping when it has finished flowering, so if

~ you are looking for plants that don’t | require: nde nderful
- soil, and very litle care, heathers | - your answer.
They do need excellent drainage, Bunty’s

plants were purchased as small fry six years “aZ0, but now

each one must be 18 inches across, or more, so if you do -
decide to plant heathers space them well apart.
- A quick walk around the sodden garden revealed fur-

| _ ther signs of : spring .. . the hydrangeas have a few leaves ~ ;
- unfurling down near ‘the base, the garlic planted |

st fall
is up about six inches, and I must remember to give it a.

~ dollop of 4-10-10 as encouragement. .

There are now lots of yellow crocuses with their sunny —
faces tumed to the sky at the slightest sign of sunshine,
the hyacinths are raising their heads, and we have one —
daffodil bud that must be 10 inches tall. I found a few.»
violets blooming under a tree, and a whole bunch of -

_ white flies whisking about the foliage of an ios a

tree while I was pruning it, and the usual evi

in spite of a liberal application of slug bait. a
a haven’t actually seen either a snail or a slug, but you
can’t miss their signs ... either the mucous they leave be-

lot of them!

that wh ting,
you can fist” property with
many Realiors and me wn
the one who- soils ‘Tt. Why.

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