_ Gardening

TheReview Wednesday, June 19,1991 — A20

Busy week of planting and hanging baskets

I promised that I’d say some-
thing more about those earwig
traps that worked so well for Chris
Pike. He had put several of them
up in his peach and nectarine trees.

The following morning when he
opened one of them he estimates
there were 150 young earwigs,
and, in another, about a hundred,
so there is no doubt that traps are
wonderfully effective. I put the
one he had given me under the
Scarlet Runner beans. The lower
leaves were being chewed by
someone hungry.

The next moming the trap was
empty, so the chewer couldn’t have
been an earwig...probably a slug. I
am now trying it in the greenhouse
where one of the pepper plants is
almost naked. Again no luck...a
slug there, too, likely, which at
least means we have a few, if any,
earwigs!

These traps aren’t available at
garden centres, but if you know
someone with a router, you might
get a few made for you. Each trap
consists of two facing pieces of
half inch lumber, about three
inches wide and six inches long.

Five channels are hollowed out
in each, directly opposite one
another, so you have a series of
tunnels for the earwigs to hide in
(until discovered by YOU, of
course!).

Laura Clackett has just called to
ask about moving a rhododendron
.. can she transplant it now, or
should she wait until fall? I’d wait
until fall, unless you want to spend
the summer keeping it really well
watered.

Laura also has masses of what
appear to be black aphids on her
sngwball bush, and to get rid of
these she could try a soap and
water spray, doing it on a day when
it doesn’t rain (ho, ho, ho) (painful
sound of hollow laughter!)

The usual quantities should do
if...one quarter teaspoon of soap,
put in your litre sprayer AFTER
you’ ve filled it with water, or it'll
be suds to your armpits for sure!
Spray both tops and bottoms of
leaves.

Talking for a moment about

aphids; this is the time to take the
topmost growth off your broad
beans, before they get infested
with black aphids.

whose tulip leaves were still green,
putting the tulips into large pots,
with lots of soil, and leaving them
in the shade for the time being.

‘I's hard to wait for these late
flowering tulips to finish doing their
thing, isn’t if?’

Steam these tops, and serve with
a dash of butter (margarine), salt
and pepper. Delicious! Still on

aphids, please don’t use the soap
spray on either sweetpeas or nas-
turiiums.

If you are growing honeysuckle
keep an eye open for green aphids
on the bud clusters. We have the
worst infestation ever, this year.
I’ve made some rhubarb tea, and
will spray with a combination of it
plus soap and water. Probably the
thubarb tea, alone, would work on
Nasturtiums and sweetpeas, but
soap seems deadly.

May I suggest you drive in a
short stake by each of your
Squashes, then, when they get
immense, with leaves everywhere,
you will know where to pour most
of the water.

This past week I have spent
every moment planting up baskets
and pots, and am still not fin-
ished...I grew too much of every-
thing (as usual).

I even emptied several planters

It’s hard to wait for these late
flowering tulips to finish doing
their thing, isn’t it? I’ve also been
potting up individual impatiens
plants in half-gallon contain-
ers....those to go in the beds out
front where the soil is full of tree
Toots.

I'll half bury these pots so, that
they don’t look too awful, and may
even bring some of them in, in the
fall, to provide us with a few
houseplants,

A largish limb down yesterday
from the big dogwood tree right
across our best peony plant (matu-
rally!) Makes me wonder if this
tree is getting to the end of its life
span...the winds have been harsh,
but surely not THAT strong! We'll
just have to wait and see, I guess.

“himself’s’? dahlias are enjoy-
ing life where he planted them
against the greenhouse. They are
considerably larger than the ones I
put in, at a short distance from -
“his”. He had a lot of trouble with
several of them because of slugs,
but seems to have solved the
problem by using a circle of sand
around each one.

If you have fruit trees, don’t
faint when what appears to be your
entire crop starts to wither and
then fall off. This is nature’s way
of thinning excess fruit, and will
leave you with a better spaced crop
of larger apples, (pears, whatever).
This phenomenon is called “the
June drop.”

Now I must get outside and thin
the turnips and carrots before cov-
ering them with Reemay. This is a
job I detest, but if we are to end up
with sizable root vegetables it will
have to be done. “himself” makes
himself scarce when this chore
looms, and I really can’t say I
blame him!

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