Gardening TheReview Wednesday, January 22,1992 — A16 » a a S Black plastic is bad for the bottom of beds Several phone calls this week to Another called wanted to know An ; 5 3 é Be : yway, try always to cut off a roots, if possible. do with gardening, although it is where to buy dear old-fashioned portion of last-year’s stem and aoe your cuttings, both chry- sull much too early to get too wood’s violets. Sylvia Hutt, close some roots when you take chry- santhemum and delphinium pull senous about planting anything. to the junction of East Saanich and santhemum cuttings. Some of you off dead or loose bottom lea wae If you have a greenhouse, of Island View Roads, usually has who may have delphiniums then dip each one into rooting course, you could probably plant some violets, plus other unusual sprouting, may also want to con- compound, and bury it one-inch lettuce, green onions and radishes, plants, for sale on her standsinthe sider making some cuttings to deep in sharp cand ee long, whipupasalad! _spring. plant in other places in either your ‘I. place probably five cuttings, iene called to ask about own garden, or that of someone (plus one in the middle), ‘round Hsing esed eds, My joting else. the rim of a four-inch pot. Cover ater ee in such beds for Wait until shoots are about the these with a plastic bag held away noe ane avINg tad to wepkies thickness of a pencil and about from the sprouts with thin sticks. = planks at least once, is that three to four inches Jong, then take __If you can provide some bottom, = 10 e a better way! os a really sharp paring knife and new growth should be showing in aa ae INaE 1S MASS os slide it down alongside each four or five weeks. At that time eds out of cement blocks, with sprout until the blade is about two transplant cuttings, singly, into : 4 ie to hold them together, or if inches under the soil. pots, and put these on a sunny —_ € was determined to use cedar Tilt the blade slightly and cut off window-sill, making sure to turn ve Ns planking, to cover the inside edges a shoot on the diagonal, taking a your pots every day or so, 1o keep When The Dretin and the tops of these planks with bit of last year’s stalk, and a few growth even te black plastic, as if he had painted : them black on the inside. Gets Tough The Do not cover the bottom of MAX i raised beds with plastic! 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