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TheReview Wednesday, March 14,1990 — jg |,

This week I took my own advice, for once, and
really shifted into high gear, “himself and I
made a hasty trip up to Butler Brothers in Keating
and got two small garbage pails of washed sand
which I prefer to use for rooting cuttings, and I
now have about 50 geraniums cuttings, a couple
dozen fibrous begonia, some ivy geraniums, and a

few felicia (for baskets). Tomorrow, with any luck -

I hope to do a few more cuttings. Hopefully, as I
am certainly late in getting these things done, they
will root in a hurry. I have them over the heating
cable in the greenhouse, covered with a large
plastic tent.

I also planted three baby orchid off-shoots,
bought in Hawaii. These were packaged and
passed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for
- export, so there was no problem when we came
through Canadian Customs. We also brought back
two packages of Maui onion seed, one we have
given away, and after planting a dozen seeds from
package number 2, it will go as well.

It is getting a bit late to plant onion seed, but

better planted than sitting in its package which’

Says on the label, “Good until July 1990.”

I made a trip to a garden centre and bought
sweetpea seeds, onion sets, green pea seed, sugar
pea seed, spinach, and some tomato sced. I put
two dozen sweetpea seeds in a piece of wet paper
towelling in a plastic bag, over heat, to pre-sprout
only three days ago, and already some of the fat
seeds have split and produced roots.

Planting each one in an individual pot is a job
for tomorrow, for sure, or I’ll end up (as has
happened too often before) with a mass of tangled

When the garden gets growing

roots, cursing myself for being so slack,

We also made a quick trip to Sleggs to pick up a
roll of two-ml plastic vapor barmier, which is very
cheap, to be used to cover the raised beds, after
first spreading several layers of newspaper to cut
off the light, and kill the few remaining bits of rye
grass not quite tured’ under. In about ten days
we'll remove the plastic, dig in the newspapers,
rake the beds, and plant the peas and the spinach,
and probably a few sprouted carly potatoes.

‘Then we’ll recover the beds with the plastic and
leave it on until the seedlings appear. At this time
it would have to be either removed or raised so
that it won’t rest on your sprouts. If you could
Support it on arched wires you’d then be growing
under a cloche, which would give you a much
earlier crop. If the weather warms up very much I
think I’d be tempted to leave it off. . . no point in
cooking things before they ripen!

John Verhagen, a long-time friend of ours, for
whom I worked some years ago, called to ask if I
would add something really worthwhile to this
column. His sons are members of the Saanich 4-H
Club, and this particular club wants to GIVE away
bags of well-rotted cow manure, particularly to
seniors who might otherwise find it difficult to
obtain any of this valuable commodity. These 4-H
members will bag and deliver manure free, but a
small donation would, I’m sure, be much appreci-

ated. There has be to a limit of five bags delivered

to any one address, but what a generous offer!

To order your bags of the good stuff, please call
Fran Kennedy at 652-0897. This kind of behavior
really renews a fella’s faith in the goodness of
human nature, doesn’t it?

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