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Titres-Advocate, March 29, 197.3 Pap. 17 Built his own 9rpenhoysg.
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Has year-round flower power
What would you do If you liked
flowers but got fed up in the
winter because you didn't have
enough..room in your house to
grow them and fed up in the
summer because you couldn't
count on the weatherman for
good weather anyway?
Well, if you were Bill and Lee
Baker, William St., Exeter, you
would butild your own
greenhouse.
Right now the Bakers have
about 50 boxes of seeds ger-
minating in their bedroom, and
more than 325 plants in various
stages of development
throughout other parts of the
house.
The project is mainly the result
of Mr. Baker's initiative. Mrs.
Baker says she likes the end
result of the work but isn't too
enthused about the work leading
up to the end result. Not so with
her husband.
He has 16 feet of linearshelving
set up in the basement with many
different varieties of flowering
plants under special fluorescent
bulbs. He said he has been
reading just about anything he
can on all different aspects of
planting, growing and building a
hobby greenhouse.
And for him it is strictly a
hobby. He is on shift work for the
Ministry of Environment at
Grand Bend and said that this
type of hobby is something he can
do through the day if he is home
and can do all year round.
Ile has been interested in
flowers for some time and said he
has had a friendly competition
going with a neighbor for a few
years. A couple of years ago he
had really good luck with roses in
his yard. In fact he had 55 rose
bushes, But last year the weather
wrecked havoc with his flowers.
So now he had decided, since he
is running out of room in the
basement anyway, and since his
is tired of fighting with the
weather, to build his own
greenhouse.
"This way I'll have Jots of room
and I can control the en-
vironment," he said.
"As it is now," he said, "we are
trying to hold back all the plants
downstairs until we can get them
into the greenhouse and give
them room to grow".
The building itself will be 40
feet by 18 feet with the greatest
part of that, 32 by 18 feet as
greenhouse and an eight-foot
workshop in the front. It is
constructed with a cement base
and will be covered, right to the
ground with excelite fibreglass
with cedar supports. Eventually
he hopes to have benches down
each side, about 36 inches off the
floor and suitable for potted
plants and a bench down the
centre, about 14 inches off the
floor for growing larger plants
right in the soil.
Mr. Baker explained that
fibreglass has the advantage of
appearance over glass and
should considerably reduce the
risk of vandalism. He said that it
is "supposed" to be superior to
glass as well but said that anyone
he has talked to is satisfied with
either, The fibreglass will work
on the same principle as the
fluorescent bulbs in his
basement, screening the light so
that only the most beneficial or
the 'red and blue light rays get
through to the plants.
"The ideal thing for support is
supposed to be cypress wood,"
said Mr. Baker, "but it is a little
difficult to get around here",
He added that the fibreglass
was a little more expensive than
glass but he figures the extra
money will be worth it.
"We are going to finish it
gradually, as we can afford it,"
said Mr. Baker. "We're not going
to dolt all at once," In addition to
the original investment, he
estimated that it would cost him
about $400 per year to operate his
greenhouse.
"But this investment isn't that
big when you start comparing it
to other hobbies, such as
snowmabiling," he said. "And
there is no noise from flowers,"
he added.
"It is a progressive, rather
than a regressive hobby," said
Mr. Baker. "You can grow into it.
With a snowmobile, for example,
its value goes down every year,
Flowers aren't like that",
"Besides, it is something we
can do together," said Mrs.
Baker, "And it will be really
nice if we can have fresh
tomatoes, lettuce and green
onions all year round," she ad-
ded. Although Mr, Baker said he
is going to grow flowers almost
exclusively, he is going to try a
few vegetables, just for their Own
use.
He stressed, though, that his
project is very much ex-
perimental and that he is lear-
ning as he goes. He said everyone
he has talked to has been more
than willing to help, and the seed
catalogues and other books he
has read have been a great help,
but that it should be quite an
experiment and lots of fun".
He said one of the main
questions he has been asked he
why he is building the greenhouse
so big, "I want room to ex-
periment with different things,"
was his answer, "And we want it
big enough so that we will be
growing into it, rather than out of
it. Besides, it really sounds
bigger than it actually is."
Mr, Baker doesn't think that a
"green thumb" is necessary to
make a success of growing
flowers. "All you need is the
interest and some knowledge of
what you are doing".
HOLDING THEM BACK — These are just a few of the over 325 plants Bill Baker has in various stages of
development throughout his house. Only a few are in blossom though, because he is trying to hold them back
until he finishes building his greenhouse. T-A photo
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As far as recent reports
suggesting that plants respond
much better if you talk to them.
Mr. Baker said he didn't know
about that, "I think all the time
you're holding them and talking
to them" he said, "you are
looking at them and judging
whether they need watering or
whatever, This is where the extra
care comes
Mr. Baker said that the only
real problem with having a
greenhouse is this; "If we ever
want to go away on a holiday, we
will have to get somebody to
babysit the greenhouse".
Former priest
to visit Exeter
Rev. Angelo Lo Vallo, an of-
ficial representative of Christ's
Mission, Inc., Hackensack, New
Jersey, will be the guest speaker
at the Emmanuel Baptist
Church, Huron St., Exeter, at the
8 p.m, service, Monday, April 2.
Rev. Lo Vallo was born in
Dunmore, Pennsylvania, at-
tended public schools there and
afterwards studied at the
University of Scranton, and St.
Maryland.
In
Baltimore,
In 1936, Rev. Lo Vallo was
awarded a full-paid scholarship
to matriculate at the Inter-'
national Seminary of the Collegio'
Brignoli Sale Negrani located in
Genoa, Italy, After being or-
dained in Italy on May 18, 1940, he
returned to the United States and
served as assistant pastor and
administrator in the Scranton,
Pennsylvania Diocese.
Later, after several years of
restudy, certain serious
theological doubts were resolved
within the context of Scripture
alone and Rev. La Vallo resigned
from the Roman Catholic Church
and priesthood. He is currently a
member of the editorial staff and
Director of the Extension
Department of Christ's Mission,
Inc.
The Mission (founded in -1882)
is a place of refuge devoted to
helping former Roman Catholic
clerics, a center for Protestant-
Catholic information, and
publisher of Christian Heritage
magazine which deals with
relevant theological questions
from both a scholarly,
evangelical, and popular
viewpoint.
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