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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News-Record, 1977-11-17, Page 26PAGE 8A—CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1977 November time to clean garden The, growing season may be over but there is still plenty of work to do in the garden, says R 44' Gomme, Ontario ministry of agriculture and food horticulturist. Annual flowers often spread out over the summer, taking over the grass around flower beds. Use a sharp spade to trim and re -shape edges of flower and shrub beds. November is a good time to hill up roses. Bring the soil up around the crown of the plant to help it weather the winter, says Mr. Gomme. "Some. home gardeners may wish to use mulches ?round their tender plants. Soil, peat moss, sawdust in moderation and compost will help protect plants over the winter." If you have been trimming evergreens, Mr. Gomme recommends using the boughs as mulch around plants. Providing the soil in your garden isn't soaking wet, there is stili time to plant flowering bulbs, including tulips. Before the winter sets in, Mr. Gomme suggests cleaning up and removing leaves and plant tops to discourage rodents from damaging trees and shrubs. He recommends painting stems and trunks with repellents containing Thiram. Heavy snow can break•lgng boughs of shrubs and trees. Tie the boughs together or wrap trees or shrubs loosely with burlap. "Don't use plastic garbage bags to wrap evergreens. This causes an even greater flux in temperature. The worst thing for plants is freezing and thirwing." After your garden jobs are complete Mr. Gomme ad- vises gardeners to clean tools by rubbing them with oil to prevent rust. Clean out gas in the lawn mower and apply oil in the spark plug holes. "A little work now will give you a head start next spring." Renovate cores small towns told Ontario's smaller com- munities will gradually start to disappear if action is not taken to renovate their old and rotting core areas, an Elmira businessman said in Toronto last week. Don Brox, speaking to a symposium on ,the problems facing downtown cores organized by the Ontario ministry of housing, said the responsibility for initiating the action needed rests with the merchants. "The Lord helps those who help themselves," he said. "There has to be a grass- roots movement among merchants to get these renovation plans under way." To fend off major attacks from large suburban shop- ping centres, small town merchants must organize themselves and choose new directions. "We are talking about survival," he said. Most small towns, he ad- ded, depend on the assessment of core areas to keep viable. If the stores and businesses began to close and move off into suburban malls and plazas then many of Ontario's small, historic towns would begin to disi.n- t!Zl;rate. . "The process is already under way in many areas of the province," he said. "It's no good just Tainting everything up and waiting for the people to arrive, you have to have a master plan in mind.' There has to be something in the stores that will bring people in." _ Sarnia Mayor Andy Brandt handed out more advice to the 600 delegates attending the conference, this time aiming at some of the province's larger city centres. The problems are largely the same, he said. Com- petition from suburban shopping plazas has done critical damage to downtown cores leaving the usual scars of bankrupt businesses and shuttered stores. Problems associated with downtown redevelopment, he said, are now hugely com- plicated and require long hours of work and expert care. i "Don't ever take any short cuts in the personnel you use to talk to some of these large developers," Brandt advised. "Use expert people at city hall and let them do the job. -Try and keep the thing from becoming a constant issue on the council flrior." 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MATTHEWS MON •THURS 8 A M• 6 P M FRIDAY8AM •9PM SATURDAY8AM •530PM PLEASE NOTE: Because many items in this sale have been specially purchased, we reserve the right to limit quantities. Not all items are necessarily available at all bran- ches. All prices are cash & carry, but delivery and credit.terma are available at extra cost, KITCHENER MON,-THURS 8 A M • - KINCARDINE 5 30 P.M FRIDAY 8 A,M WINDSOR EAST . g P,M,.SATURDAY 8 A M WINDSOR WEST • 6.30 P M.. Amherstburg, Gpdertch, '1(in�sVille, Owen Sound, Ridgetown, Southampton MON•FRIDAY 8 A.M • 5,30 P.M, SAT till 4 West Lorne, Exeter, Thedford, Grand Bend, Harrow, • MON -FRIDAY 8 A M, . 5 30 P.M.; SATURDAY till 1 00 P M OWEN SOUND 589 Fairway Road South near the Hwy. 21 North opposite the Sutton Mall. Phone 744.6371 Park Inn. Phone 396-3403 1,4 On Highway 21 et Springmount f viiy. 82 approx. 1 ih miles west of Tedford. Phone 296-4991 ,Corner, Phone 376-3181