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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1985-10-16, Page 24Si 1 St an Excellent Cooking & Eating Apples available now for winter storage. Jonathan, Red Delicious, Golden delicious, Ida Red A. Grant Fox Orchards Shakespeare Open 9 a.m. - 8 p.m. daily 625®6751 rin * roots, c,, 'Iris tubers for winter By Patrick Denton Edible items like squash and pumpkin, onions and garlic, apples and potatoes are not the only examples of home-grown bounty that must be gathered and stored in the fall for later use. There are also several dif- ferent kinds of popular sum- mer -flowering roots, corms and tubers that should be brought in for storage for re- planting in the spring. Prob- ably 'the most commonly grown among them are gladiolus, dahlias and tuberous begonias. I usually begin with our gladiolus, since they are ready to dig as early as six weeks after flowering. If a nice sunny day can be found, so much the better for begin- ning the drying of the corms. I dig our gladiolus plants just a few at a time and lay them in a dry spot together with their name gigs. Right away I take a stout pair of kitchen scissors to the tops, removing them just an inch above the corm top. Those tops are placed immediately into a plastic bag for garb- age pickup, or burned. This is especially important where thrips are rampant. Before being so -t . !, the corms require a period of curing in a dry, well - VICTORIANA ROSE `'yGlp\ PARAGON $T' English Fine Bone China puDiscover Paragon, the world renowned English fine bone china, with a choice of exquisite designs. And right now, for a limited time only, enjoy\ the exceptional savings. 5 -piece place settings from $53.50 ADDED BONUS Ask about our special Paragon Value Vouchers. GeniniJewellers Listowel, Wingham, Shelburne. Q. I've learned a lot of good information from read- ing your column and hope you .can help me with a toughie. Our carpeting, which is a manmade fabric, shows the ravages of steam -cleaning. It has a matted -down look in- stead of the normal pile. I've been told that a good scrubbing with a short - toothed rake will bring back some of its glory. Do you agree or is there a better way? -- Manny K. A. Much depends on the type of carpeting you have. It sounds as though, in the cleaning process, the carpet, got too wet. I would recom- mend going over a small area with a long -handled stiff brush, to see if these test improves the appearance. I doubt, however, if the original pile can be restored completely. Q. Does mixing turpentine with a gloss or semigloss paint affect the gloss? Is it better to use turpentine in thinning for a first coat or is linseed oil preferable? — G.R.M. A. Adding turpentine or mineral spirits to a glossy paint results in dulling the gloss. Raw linseed oil (unless the paint manufac- turer specifies other -wise on the paint container) is pref- erable for thinning paint. There also are special pro- ducts at large paint stores for thinning oil -base paints. Q. I recently purchased enough semi -glazed tile to cover my cement patio. Would thinset be 00 to use? There is a roof over the patio but some rain can be blown in and I have been told that in time, the moisture. would cause the tiles to come loose. Please give nie your advice. A. When laying tile on grade or below -grade cement floors, you should use moisture -resistant ad- hesive. Be sure your tile is suitable for an exterior area. Detailed instructions for laying floor tile, much too long to carry here, are avail- able at all stores that sell flooring tile. ventilated warm spot around. 80 F. I place ours in shallow boxes in a cupboard that houses the hot water heater. After about three weeks 1 usually take the boxes out, brush the dried dirt and tiny corms off the main corms, and try to pry last year's old, withered corm away from the bottom of the new one. When it pulls off fairly easily, that's a sign the corms ar Just about ready for stor e. When all the corms are clean:d up, I place them in fresh, 's xes and dust them with sulfur. Then they're given another week of warm curing to dry and seal those surfaces newly exposed with the cleaning. Glad corms are actually rather easygoing in their storage requirements. The one condition they will not stand up to is dampness. They store well at around 50 F, though it can be a little lower or higher. I place mine by name or color in paper bags with their tags, and dust a little more sulfur on them before setting them in a cool cupboard corner. There are two other flow- ers that are dug and stored in just the same way as gladi- olus, but are perhaps just a little bit more tender to frost. They are tigridia, a bulb, and acidanthera, a corm. I have come to prize them in our garden, both for their beauty and their long season of bloom. Acidantheras make tall. and graceful plants, With slender swordlike foliage and arching sprays of beautifully scented creamy - white flowers .bearing deep purple starlike markings at their centers. The sprays open their flowers in se- quence from the bottom up over a period of many weeks. They are exquisite cut flow- ers, making the most elegant and graceful arrangements with a most delightful frag- rance. Tigridias also. bloom over a period of six to eight weeks in summer. The exotic blooms last only a day, but each plant putsout a succes- sion of around six flowers al- together. Tigridia blooms open at the top of their plant stems, measure about 6 inches across, and look like bright butterflies with speckled centers. Their colors include pink, orange, yellow. buff and red, with beautiful spot- ted center markings for which the plant was given its name tigridia, or tiger flow- er. Mexican shell flower is another name given to this lovely flower, for its native home. Another attribute, quite apart from their beauty, for which I treasure these two unusual and handsome plants, is that they get better each year. I originally pur- chased our tigridia bulbs four or five years ago, and each year they've produced progressively more flowers. This year, they put on a non- stop summer show, and the acidantheras were even bet- ter than last year. Crossroads—Oct. 16, 1985—Page 7A WHY TAKE A CHANCE eb er In these times of stress it is a nice feeling' to know all of your property is or can be well pro- tected by the oldest Farm Mutual in Ontario — a Canadian owned company, uniquely reinsured with another Canadian owned subsidiary. Call or contact our local agentor broker today to discuss your insurance'needs either on a direct company - client basis or agent/broker - client basis. AGENT/BROKER: Gerald M. Bain - 595-8989 Clare S. 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