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By Russ Gomme
Ontario Ministry of Agricialltuw
and Food
You know how easily clothes
can be mixed and matched.
Gardens can be mix-matches, too.
Try mixing some vegetables in
with your annuals and perennials.
Any small area in your garden
can produce vegetables; perhaps
a 15-square-foot area between
flowering shrubs or a 10 by 10
foot annual bed. These small
open spaces can produce fresh
vegetables with excellent quality
and taste at little cost.
The key to home grown
vegetables is well-prepared soil.
Well-drained, open spaces in
sunshine are ideal. Shrubs that
may shade garden areas should
be pruned back beforehand. Dig,
in compost, peat moss or manure
to enrich the soil before planting.
A simple way to improve soil
texture is to add coarse sand to
clay soils. or clay to sandy soils.
You might try tomatoes, beans.
onions, peppers, cucumbers, 'and
radishes. Buy your seed as early
as you can. A rule of thumb in
sowing the seed is to cover it to
twice its diameter.
Beans, cucumbers and
tomatoes can be trained to climb
Increase the variety and color
in your garden this year. Grow
annuals from seed.
A dollar or two will buy a few
packets of seed that will help
create a more interesting and
colorful garden, says R. A.Flem-
ing, Ontario MiniStry of Agricult-
ure and Food Horticulturist.
Plants such • as calendula,
bachelor's button, cornflower,
coreopsi's, 'cosmos or nasturtium
can be sown outdoors as soon as
the soil can be prepared.
Other annuals such as baby's
breath, nemophila, scabiosa and
nemesia, and vines - such a$
morning glory, sweet pea, thumb-
ergia and the clock vine, can also
be grown successfully from seed.
, Most annuals can be 'sown from
early to mid-May. Calendula,
on wires or string on the back
fence, Plastic netting is also
available in garden centres,
these climbers make excellent
screens and green backgrounds to
sho'W off annual flowers too,.
Onions, including the sweet
Spanish. variety, can be bought as
sets or seedlings. Plant them
about one inch apart. In about
three weeks, pull out every other
one for use as green onions.
Continue thinning 'periodically
until the onions are four or five
inches apart. These rernlining
onions can be left t6 grow' full
size. This procedure makes.
maximum use of available space.
.Radishes, because they are
small and mature fast, are
naturals for small garden plots.
Two or three crops can be grown
in a season by planting seeds over
several weeks.
If available space is large
enougft, consider putting • in
lettuce, beets, carrots and herbs.
Avoid corn, squash, pumpkin and
watermelon, since 'these plants •
take up too much space.
Fertilize when plaots are two to
three inches high. Buy a general
garden fertilizer without
herbicides. It can be side-dressed
or sprinkled between plants at a
rate of 1/2 pound per 15 square
cornflower, larkspur and snap-
dragon can be sown as early as
late April.
Sow• the seeds thinly on a
well-prepared, moist seedbed.
Seeds shinild he covered lightly
and the seedbed kept moist until
seedlings emerge.
To avoid unnecessary competit-
ion, remove weak or overcrowded
plants. Allow eight to ten inches
between plants. Mr. 'Fleming
says that although further thinn-
ing may be required as the plants
grow, these young plants may be
transplanted to open areas of the
garden in much the same way as
boxed plants.
Annuals allowed to go to seed -
often stop flowering, so remove
spent or faded flowers to encour-
age new shoots.
GET
GOOD THINGS
GROWING
WITH
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to your
feet (or linear), Then carefully
rake or' cultivate it into the soil.
You night also consider using a
high-soluble fertilizer such as
20-20-0. Mix one tablespoon of
soluble fertilizer to each gallon of
water and water your garden with
it. Every other watering, use the
fertilizer-water combination at
half-strength. "
Don't over-fertilize your
vegetable garden, especially
tomatoes, once the plants are
established, or they will produce
too much vegetative growth and
not enough fruit, If you don't
'have a compost pile, dig the tops
of radishes, carrots, onions and so
on, back into the ground. It's not
the best way of composting, but
it's better than tossing them out.
Vegetables grown in a home
garden have unequaled flavour
because you.pick them at the peak
of freshness and taste. It makes
planting even a few vegetables
very worthwhile. To help plan
your vegetable garden, obtain
Publication -536, •Vegetable
Garden REquir'ements, from your
local office of, the Ontario
Mi.iistry of Agriculttire and Food,
Parliament Buildings, Toronto,
M7A 1A5.
A few herbs are also a welcome
addition to the garden. Plant
them in -the foundation areas or
,rockery. Select herbs that you
. .
Add vegetables
Increase variety
Grow annuals from seed