Gardening

TheReview Wednesday, October 30,1991 — Ais @ f'

Last-minute preparation for winter

Well, that sort of settled THAT,
didn’t it? The frost last night I
mean...Now we'll HAVE to do all
those things we’ve been putting
off until all the long-enduring
summer flowers died back.

I know they aren’t quite dead
yet, but this, no doubt has been a
stem warning of things to come.
Guess you'd better put on a
sweater, and head outside where
you can now start your fall clean-
up, dig over the vegetable beds,
plant a cover crop of fall rye, dig in
some garlic corms, and a few
whole spuds to give you a really
early taste of new potatoes.

“Himself” arrived home fairly
bursting with energy, which he
spent madly raking leaves, and
cleaning up quantities of dog-do
(the accumulation of a month).
(Some people say, “I don’t do
windows.” I say,““I don’t do dog
poo!” A person has to have SOME
rights, surely!)

Anyway, this burst of activity
didn’t last-too long...jet-lag set in,
but now, a week later, he has
regained his former vigor, and is
Tarin’ to go.

Now, let’s discuss the needs of
your garden at this time of year.
Firstly, leaves should be raked off
lawns. I know this job is not that
much fun, but if you do it before
they have become sodden and
glued to the grass it isn’t really
that bad.

PLEASE don’t burn leaves.
Layer them into your compost pile,
between grass clippings, squash

plants, weeds, discarded bedding -

plants, etc.

If you don’t have a compost
heap perhaps you would consider
pushing them into black plastic
bags, adding a shovel or two of
garden earth per bag, and then a
good splash of water, before tying
each bag closed, and hiding the lot
of them somewhere for

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the...er...winter. (Oh dear!) By
Spring (in theory at least) you
should have bags of compost!

Pine needles are a different
proposition. They don’t seem to
decompose readily, and are brutes
to handle, being very “needle-y”
indeed!

Following advice from Chris
Pike, I have mulched under the
thododendrons with inches of
them...he had used them under his
azaleas, and found these shrubs
loved the acidity the needles pro-
vided. Oak leaves are another
toughie, but eventually will rot. It
just seems to take 100 years.

Before planting fall rye, rake
your beds to get rid of stones, but it
shouldn’t be necessary to dig them
unless they are full of weeds.
Spread rye seed generously over
your beds, and lightly rake it in, as
much to discourage birds as to
cover the seed.

Then, if it isn’t about to rain,
water it well. Within days your
beds will turn a delightful reddish
brown, as the rye sprouts.

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I am going to seed it right in
amongst our cabbages, cauliflow-
ers and Brussels sprouts. The latter
will be eaten, and gone, by the
time the rye grass is ready to be
tilled under. :

Save some space along the edge
of one of your vegetable beds to
plant'some garlic corms. You can
use bought garlic. Fertilize the
planting area with 13-16-10 and
mix in some lime, then bury each
clove so that the tip is just at the

- soil surface:

Plant them about five inches
apart, fertilize them in early spring
using 34-0-0, and again when they
are about a foot tall, and the
resulting garlic will amaze you!

If you are mad for new potatoes,
try planting just a few whole ones,
now. Five or six small ones from
your own potato crop will be sure
to sprout...sometimes store-bought
ones have been treated to retard
new growth.

These are best planted quite
deep, say six inches to the bottom
of each hole, and about a foot
apart. In the bottom of each hole
put a handful of-dampened peat-
moss, then drop in your spud,
before covering it with soil.

Sometimes I mulch these pota-
toes, to keep frost from heaving
them out of the ground...ah, ha,
maybe this could be a good use for
those extra pine needles.

Back to leaves, just for a minute.
While browsing through ads in
The Review under the heading
called “Miscellaneous Wanted” I
spotted two requests for leaves and
grass clippings. If you really don’t
want your fallen leaves why not
share them with someone else

- who will use them to build up

his/her soil: I’m sure you will be
blessed for your generosity!

I haven’t mentioned bulbs this
season, mostly because I haven't
yet planted ours. I just haven’t
been able to force myself to pull
out all those lovely impatiens, to
make room for bulbs. Everyone in
the world is ahead of me, but am I
worried? ae

Well, um...maybe a little bit...but
if it doesn’t snow, I'll get them in
very soon now, I promise. They
will bloom next spring at the same
time as they would have if I’d
planted them in August! S’true,
y know! Bulbs have a built-in time
clock!

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