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Flowers Brigl
Nothing will brighten a blank
wall or add more gaiety to• a
house front, verandah, patio or
shaded corner than a window
box, pot or tub filled with bright
Towers. These ' are very inten-
sive sortsof gardens, with lit-
tle soil and a lot of bloom •ex-
pected. Therefore, the soil
must be fine and very rich and
there will have to be drainage
in the form of coarse gravel
or broken pottery in the bot-
tom of each box or hanging
pot. Also because exposed to
the air on all sides they must
be watered almost daily. '
The boxes are ally filled
closely with quick a d• steady
flowering things such as pan-
sies, petunias, nasturti ms, ger-
aniums, lobelias, a m, ager-
atum, special fol ge plants,
and for• •partially s .ded posi-
tions tuberous rooted 'egoni
Some of the flowers shou. .e
of, a semi -trailing type. so that
they will overflow and hang
down. The boxes, especially if
made of woad, must be strong-
ly built with the corners pre-
ferably reinforced and well
supported as they will be heavy
when filled with moist soil, In
the fall when the first frosts
threaten, the smaller tubs and
boxes oan be moved onto a
covered verandah or porch,
where they will continue to
bloom until late fall. 4 •
Fertilizers
Commercial or' chemical fer-
tilizers will push growth along
'in amazing fashion. And even
in good garden soil, for stimu-
lating leafy, growth, or roqts
or as a shot -in -the -arm after
transplanting, a little fertilizer
will work wonders. These chem.
icals are also a boon to gar-
dens in the North country
where the season is short and
things must be grown quickly
to escape the early frost:
Chemical fertilizers, however,
like medicine must be used
with reasonable care. Most of
them will burn if they come
in direct contact with plants
or roots.' In the' very small gar-
den the fertilizer is best die
solved in water and applied in
liquid form. Or it can be .care-
fully sprinkled along the rows
close to but not actually touch-
ing the seed or plants, and
then the •whole garden •well
soaked with the hose.
Chemical fertilizers,. as a rule,
are a mixture 'of • three main
chemicals, nitrogen, • phosphor-
us and potash, expressed on the
package in three numbers, like
10-8-4. This would mean ten
parts •nitrogen,' eight of phos-
phorus and four of potash. For
green growth we. want lots •of
nitrogen and that is why lawn
fertilizer and mixtures for sal-
ad .:vegetables have the highest
count of the first number. For
rootgrowth we need plenty. of.
phosphorus' and potash.
Even % in good soil, experi-
enced gardeners use a some
chemical fertilizer for pushing
growth, especially for things
like °lettuce, 'cabbage, .spinach,
carrots and 'peets. They do so
because they know thatthe
speedier the growth the more
tender and higher the quality.
Growing Your Own
Grow Your Own
For the larger than average
garden, there is a substantial
saving in financial outlay by
starting plants indoors from
seed rather than purchasing
them in flats or -pots. a In , this
way, too, the gardener can be
sure of having precisely those
varieties desired. But growing
petunias, 't o m a t o e• s, zinnias,
marigolds ,and so on from seed
in the average home, is not as
simple .as some enthusiasts
would have s believe. Certain
basic' rules must be followed
or the option will not be a
success.
side, they are transplanted to
the garden after danger of
frost is over.
Revolution in Lawns.
Multiple -lane super -highways,
airfields that cover three or
four square miles, golf courses
and bowling greens have rev-
olutionized the turf -grass indus-
try in Canada as elsewhere in
North America 'and Europe.
Back in the old days fawn grass
was pretty standard and the
average man bought only a few
pounds in : his entire lifetime.
The bulk of the seed came from
a relatively small area and only
The professional with a a few varieties of grass were
greenhouse and cold frames considered necessary for most
which give ,the plants plenty mixtures. That's not the case
of light 'all around does not today, with millions of pounds
take any chances and neither of turf grass seed grown and
should the amateur, with .1iis used inCanada eachyear an
. .-d"
far more limited, facilities. The thousands of pounds of special
biggest • problem is usually a grasses imported for well bal
disease known 'as s "dam i
in
a
"damping
off" which attacks the seedlings
just a few days after they have
started to grow. In the green-
house. all soil is • carefully ster-
ilized. This is hardly possible
for the home gardener but at
least he should use new soil
each year, of very fine texture
and well mixed with compost
and sand. If a on
of this
is not already on hand, then it
can be purchased from any seed
house or garden store. As a
further precaution againstt
damping off it is a good plan,
after the seed is sown in flats,
or pots and watered in, to
spread a thin layer (say a"quar-
ter of an inch deep) of well
pulverized peat moss- or vermi-
culite over the soil, so that
there is some insulati n be-
tween the soil and the #'plants
as they -come through. The writ-
er had excellent successes with
tomato plants where this was
done' a year ago, whereas a
neighbor without the peat moss
top, lost 90% of his seedlings.
Planting
Flat wooden boxes .: about
three inches deep, with small
drainage holes.' are best for
starting seed, but 'flower pots
or even' metal pans again with
drainage holes punched 'in the
bottom can be used. Good pot-
ting soil sifted. fine and press-
ed down 'firmly is the best'me-
dium, with ,the • peat moss layer
added after seed is sown. The
soil must be Well moistened
and to keep it moist, some gar
deners cover • the' flat with a.
damp newspaper or piece of
glass until the seed germinate.
Some seeds will ;.germinate in
a few days, others ..like toma-
toes, take two weeks. When
they have germinated, remove
the covering and place in a
sunnywindow,-, turning boxes
ar 'pots' around 'at lcnst once a
day .to encourage. ev'en growth.e
MUMS' slfot%ild .- bei .thinned out
'when the i#eeo ,d set of leaves
bias developed end transplant-
' trxtp wmdividual stator lig
l to 'y fter gr tcly l jr
anced mixtures an
d uses. There
her
e
are special mixtures for put-
ting greens, paths, drought re-.
sistance, and holding soil along
steep' cuttings, and fol: Making
extra luxuriant lawns along
side patios that are as soft,
green and uniform as the finest
broadloom.
By getting high class seed
and a mixture specially blend-
ed for his part of Cairada and
his particular location even the
amateur gardener today can
build , a lawn that his grand-
father only dreamed about. But
he doesn't just sow any old
type of ^ grass seed and he
doesn't sow the grass seed first :
and ,.attempt to Mild up the
soil and levels afterwards., And'
still more important, he doesn't,
sow the grass,. seed—and forget -
all. about it, letting it thrive as
best it can.. The gardener who
wants .a lawn that both he and
his neighbors will admire, gets
his soil thoroughly . cultivated:
and levelled beforeany seed is.
sown. And . after that he ex-
pects to keep the lawn mowed
regularly, 'watered when neces-
sary, treated annually with a
chemical weedkiller, and with
a dressing of fertilizer .either
chemical or natural at least
once a season. And of course,
he• sows while ,,the weather is
still cool 'and moist, and if he
wants a quick and even catch
he keeps the soil moist, by
sprinkling eyery day if neces-
sary, until the seed has germ-
inated.
"Why should I bother to
grow vegetables when I can
buy them cheaply?" Howof-
ten do you hear that from the
man who has never grown any
vegetables and certainly who
has never eaten any just out of
the garden. The vegetables one
`buys are not , at all' the same
as the vegetables one grows.
There Is nothing quite so per-
ishable as' garden freshness,`
and especially when it comes
to things' likearden corn,
peas, lettuce, baby 'carrots and
so on, Actually, Born and peas
lose,;their rea$y fresh fl vnr itt
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en
Quickly grown vegetables do
not have' fibres, cores or string-
iness.
Garden, Diary
A simple record of planting
dates, time of blooming or ma-
turity will prove valuable and
interesting next year and later.
Nothing elaborate is needed.
Some people simply jot on the
inside of the garage wall, the
date they were first able to dig
-each year and then add when
they got the first flowers plant-
ed or the first vegetables, just
something like a record of
when the birds appear and
leave each year. Others keep
something more permanent like
a diary in which they note
briefly all garden developments,
then are able tp- make a ' com-
parison from year to year. They
ome
may also list when any particu-
lar bug or disease appeared so
as to be ready nest time, or
they jot down the name of a
flower or vegetable they may
,have seen in a neighbor's gar-
den and which they want to be
sure and order for themselves
the next year.
' A garden record like this
will not only help plan ,and
create a better garden in' fu-
ture years, itwill settle a lot
of arguments. • One can refer
to it, then speak with authority
ch the name of any particular
plant or shrub, and give the
exact year when a certain tree
was planted, know the time of
the first or last frosts, there-
fore when it is safe' to put out
the bedding plants, or when it
is wise to bring in the flower-
ing tubs and so on.
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