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CLIN'TQN NEWS-RRCOR,D, THURSDAY; APR1L 24, 1975—PAGE 7B
Comp!ete dower guide for your garden
FLOWERS
ow ado u0. Magi Mdlna. okger en. Gut Mower,
Conti nal bloom.
Law edg ng, arty and Continued r loom. Mads bidding.
,Cut Mowarat Masa dding-or border, ate bloom.
TTON .. Cut flowers Mass beddin
USE
aYll
egreidit Height
15-20 0 In.- FUIIaur or partial shade. Tolerates dry soli.
10-20 24 In. Sunny plat;.. Cut bark after peak bloom for fuller
flowerin • . -
AGERATUM
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ASTER
BACHELOR'S
M
CO
NFLOWER
BALSAM
* B tie 017 IRELAN
CALENDUL A Cut Mowir Mass beddlnp.
CALIFORNIA POP Y , . • • •'Masa bedding. Low ridging. Rook garden, Early bloominp.
CANDYTUFT .._ ... . Mus bedding. Fragrance. Earty•bloomin0.
• CANTER5URY0LLB
bJ CARNATION
* CHRYSANTHEMUM, `ANNUAL Milts beddlnp, .t ate blooming.
CLARKIA Cut flowers, Mass bedding.
COCKSCOMB .. .. , . • Man bedding. Dry winter bouquets. Late blooming.
• COLUMBINE .Rook' arden. Mass bed., Gut flowers, Earj boom.
• GOR OPS18 Gut flowers, Mass' bidding. Early and cont. bloom.
*"COSMOS Tall 0sokground Cut•flowers.
* DAHLIA • Man bedding, Cutflowerss Late blooming.
•DELPHINIUM Tall baokgrouid. Cut flowers, Early blooming.
• FOROET-ME-NOT PER. Lowledging.
blooming..ss bedding. Rock garden. Cut flowers.
• FOXGLOVE PER. . . Tall background. Cut flowers.
* GODETIA Mass bedding. Cut flowers.'
* GOURDS ... Vine and dried fruits.
• GYPSOPHILA PER. Small flowers tor misty -like spray with cut flowers.
* GYPSOPHILA, 'ANN. Cut flowers, Masa bedding. Early blooming.
p HELICHRYSUM Dry winter bouquets, Cut flowers. Mass bedding. Late blooming.
• HOLLYHOCK, CHATERS Tall background:
* KOCHIA Tall background. Summer hedg♦.
*LARKSPUR . Mau bedding. Cut flower,. Early blooming.
LINUM. ANNUAL . Mass bedding.
LOBELIA, ANNUAL • Low edging. Rock garden. Mass bedding, Late blooming.
* MARIGOLD, AFRICAN Tall background. Mass bedding. Cut flowers. Late blooming.
* MARIGOLD, FRENCH Mass bedding. Low edging. Cut flowers.
* MARIGOLD, TAGETEB Low edging. Rook garden. Continued blooming.
Fragrance.in morning and evening.
Fragrance, Cuttlnq with other flowers. •
Vine, Late blooming.
* NASTURTIUM. DWARF Low edging, Rook garden. Cut flowers.
* NASTURTIUM: GLEAM Mass bedding, Fragrance. Cut flowers.
* NASTURTIUM. TALL Vine. cut flowers.
NEMESIA Low edging. Rock garden. Maas bedding, Cut flowers.
ICOTIANA Fragrance. Mass bedding. Cut flowers, Late bloom! ng.
NIGELLA Mass beddln . Rook • arden, Cut flowers.
0 PANSY Low edging, Mass bedding.Rock garden, Cul flowers
Early and continual bloomig.
0 PETUNIA, LARGE BEDDING . Masi beddln% Fregranoa.
0 PETUNIA. DWARF COMPACT Mass bedding. Low edging. Fragrance..
❑ PHLOX, »ANNUAL Mass bedding, Cut flowers.
*, PINKS, ANNUAL Mass bedding. Fragrance. Cut flowers, Leto blooming.
*'POPPY, SHIRLEY Mass bedding. Rock garden.
• POPPY, ICELAND Mau bedding, Early blooming,. Cut flowers.
* PORTULACA Mass bedding. Rock garden; Low edging.
Li SALPIGLOSSIS • Tall background. Mass bedding. Cut flowers.
❑ SALVIA Masa bedding. Cut flowers.
0 SCHIZANTHUS Mau bedding, Rook garden, Cut flowers.
• SHASTA" DAISY Mau bedding, Rock garden. Cut flowers.
p SNAPDRAGON Cut flowers, -Mau -bedding.
❑ STATICE Dry winter bouquets. Mass bedding.
Q STOCKS- • Fragrance, Mass bedding, Cut flowers.
* SUNFLOWER Tall background. Seeds for feed.
* SWEET PEAS Vine.. Cut hewers, Fragrance. Early blooming.
• SWEET WILLIAM Mass bedding,
Noontlns renar. ce. Cut flowers. Early
❑ VERBENA Low edging, Man bedding. Fragrance. Cut flowers.
Mau garden. Late blooming.
O VIOLA Low edging Mass bedding. Rook garden. Early and
continued bloom.
• WALLFLOWER Masa bedding. Cut flowers, Early blooming.
* ZINNIA Mau bedding, Cut flowers. Late blooming,
w
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Mass
Fresh or Dried Bouquets.
In
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SUN AND 601L
7-16 1-2 0. Full un: Avoid pround•prevlously'In Asters.
• 16.20 21 ft, Tolerates partial shade and poor soil:
10-12 In. Tolerates' partial shads and
0.15 11/2-2 0. • Partial shade and cool. moist *oil.
15-20
oom
or sol
15-20
10-15
2 ft.
11 ft.
10
10.20
8 In.
1 1t.
Man betldl Tall back round. Cul Mowers.
Fragrance. Cut flowers, Mass eddlnl , Late bloom.
15-20
10.16
16-20
10-15
2 ft.
114 ft.
2i4 0.
2 ft.
7.10
15-20
21
15-20
10-16
15-20
* MATTHIOLA
* MIGNONETTE
* MORNING GLORY
15
11/2 tt.
East y grown.
Likes cool weather. Poor soli or some alkali soil.
Bunny. dry location. WIII not transplant.
Tolerates some shads. Any garden soil.
Shad , cool. moist location.
Furl sun and good eoln.
Full sun and amphli moisture. •
Tolerates some shade. Fairly cool and moist soli.
Full sun and light toll.'
2/ ft. Cool. moist situation.
3 ft. Sunny. warm place. Tolerates drought.
3-4 0. Sunny situation. well drained.
2 ft. Full sun. Cool, moist situation.
4-0 fl. Full sun. Fairly rich. well drained soil.
1 ft. Sunny locatlbn.
15 6 ft,, Full sun or partial shade. Good garden loam.
15 1-2 ft. Partial shade. Fairly moist, cool situation.
15-20 10-15 ft.. Full sun. Any good garden soil.
10-14 3 ft. Any garden soli.
15-20 114 0. Any garden soil.
16-20 2141 ft. Full sun. Good garden loam.
15-20 64 ft. Full sun. Well drained son. Avoid moving.
10 2 ft. Full sun.
20-30 2142-314 ft. Full sun. Avoid moving ;dents.
15 1142 It Full sun. Ordinary soil.
15-20 4 in. Full sun or partial shade. Good loam.
8-10 1-3 ft. Full sun. Warm soli.
8-10 6-12 In. Full sun. Well drained sell.
8-10 8 In. Full sun. Well drained soil.
,10 16In. Any garden soil.
Moist soli. WIII not transplant.
12-15 1 ft.
10-15 - 10-16 ft. Full sun. Very well drained Ilght soli.
I Partial shade If moist. Nasturtiums bloom more
I freely on poor so11.
15-20
15-20
1 fL
2ft.
15-20
g
15-20
5 ft.
8 In. 5 Loam soil.
Full sun. Rich. moist soli.
10
2 ft.
15-20
15-20
11 ft.
8-8 In.
lard.
Grows on • • or soli. Will not trans
Moist. cool, ►Ichnoll. Partial shade.
10-12 2 ft. Full sun. Warm garden loam.
10.12 1/ It. Full sun. Warm garden loam.
15-20 8-16 In. Full sun Well drained soil.
10-18 1 ft. Full sun. Any good garden soil.
10-14 2 ft. Full sun. Light soli. Will not transplant.
10.14" 11/2 fl. Full sun or partial shade. Light soil. Avoid moving.
• 15 4-0 In. Sandy. dry soli. Tolerates drought. alkali.
15 2 ft. Full sun. Fairly rich garden so11.
15-20 1 Sun or carnal shade. Well drained soil.
15-20 15 In. Full sun. Moist garden loam.
10-15 2 1t. Full sun, Well drained toll.
10-15 114-2Y It. Full sun or partial shade. Good garden loam.
16-20 21 ft. Full sun.
10.16 " 1-2 ft. Full sun. Cool. molat garden loam.
10-15 4-8 ft. Full sun. Warm. dry soil. '
10-16 6 ft. Full sun. Very rich, well drained loam.
7 11 ft. Sun or partial shed,. Well drained soft:
16.20 1 ft. Full sun. Warm. dry soli.
15-20 5-8 In. Shady. Cool and moist. Blooms quickly from spring
sown aced.
16-20 11/2 ft. Best In cool climates with winter protection.
5-10 11.3 ft. Full sun. Thrives In heat. Rich. warm. well
drained still.
* Seed usually sown outdoors where plants 0 Start seed indoors if early plants
are to bloom. required or outdoors when soil .
and weather warm.
Soil PH important
by W.E. McIntosh
Ontario ministry of
agriculture and food
S.
Commercial vegetable
production for years has involved -
highly specialized cultural
practices with high input costs.
These _ practices are constantly
being reviewed and improved
upon and now, with the pressures
of shortages and price increases
in materials, even the smallest
detail of production needs to be
considered. Soil pH is one detail
to consider when growing a crop,
although it is far from being a
small or new production factor.
Soil pH in simple terms. is the
numerical expression of the soil
reaction; that is, the condition of
acidity or alkalinity. The pH
value of a soil has a definite in-
fluence on the conditions favoring
the availability of the plant
nutrient elements. The condition
that favors the highest
availability for nearly all plant
nutrient elements occurs _ when
the soils are slightly acid to
neutral in reaction.
.The desired spil pH depends on
the crop to be grown, but
generally speaking this is in the
pH range of 6.5 to• 7.0 for
vegetable crops. Two well-known
crop areas, however, are subject
to disease problems which can be
partially prevented when the
crops are grown within a certain
pH range. The effects of the
disease "club root of crucifers"
are reduced if the soil ••pH• is
-raised tO;-al fabs, .lalie;„1 -a�
complished through applications
of hydrated lime and limestone
that are well worked'into the soil.
On the opposite side of the scale,
the incidence of the disease
"potato scab" is reduced in
potato crops if the soil pH is
below 5.5
'Soil pH has been found to vary
considerably within the same
field with certain areas being
very acid in nature. These areas
are often found where the soil has
a coarse or sandy texture. If soils
are subject to, -an intensive fer-
tilizer program (such as is
necessary for a number of
vegetable crops) the soil pH is
gradually lowered through the
acidifying effects of the fertilizer.
This acidifying effect takes place
more rapidly in the sandy areas
of the field. Soil pH variation in a
field, especially if coupled with
some other limiting factor, can
be noticed in the uneven or •
stunted growth of the crop. Once
the crop is planted and the
symptoms are noticed in the
growth, it is usually too• late to
correct the problem.
Since pH can have a market
effect on production returns, it
alone is a justifiable reason. for a
soil test. If areas within a field
are presenting a suspected pH
problem, then these areas should
be sampled as separate soil tests.
Once the soil test results are
known then the appropriate steps
can be taken to raise the pH. In
this manner, soil pH is prevented''
from becoming an unnecessary
limited factor in vegetable
production.
Houseplants
need light
• Biennials and Perennials —
sow seed outdoors June'- July.
Protect plants for Winter.
C�ntr�fling
crabgrass
Crabgrass may have been
called that because its refusal to
die turning aspiring young
gardeners into crabby old
failures. However, by following
proper lawn care practice's and
using preemergence herbicides,
gardeners can' now control this
persistent lawn weed. •
"PreemergenGe herbicides kill
crabgrass and other weeds as
they sprout," says Ontario
ministry of agriculture and food
horticulturist, R.F. Gomme, "so
they should be applied in April or
early ' May. Mixtures of
preemergence herbicides and
fertilizers, that do two jobs in
one, are also available. Always
follow the manufacturer's
directions when applying these
and all other chemicals."
To assure even distribution,
apply half the recommended
amount of a preemergence
chemical one way, and the other
half at right angles to the first
half. Adequate rainfall within a
week after application is
necessary to activate these
chemicals. Two popular
preemergence herbicides are
Betasan and Dacthal.
"Although preemergence
herbicides are useful, a good
maintenance program is also
necessary," emphasizes Mr.
Gomme. Crabgrass does not
germinate well without light, so a
relatively long, thick stand of turf
is likely to be least infested.
Proper mowing, fertilization,
topdressing, watering, aerifying,
and reseeding of sparse areas
help to defeat this weed.
Lawns heal
Nothing heals disturbed land
better than grass. The fibrous
root system of grass builds,
topsoil as it' binds the ground,
'preventing wash. Grass plants
absorb and hold nutrients, reduce
eutrophication downstream.
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Don't keep your houseplants in
the dark, ' emphasizes Ontario
ministry of Agriculture and food
•horticulturist, D.M. .Sangster,.,.."
a-.n.ee&plentyt -
of light and,even those with IoW •
light requirements should be
placed near a window during
winter."
Ivies, Philodendrons,
Begonias, Peperomias,
. Gloxinias, and African Violets,
which do best in indirect bright
light during the summer, are just
few of the plants that benefit
from a window location in the
winter. Geramiums need direct
sunlight all the time, so they
should be placed in a south or
west window.
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