The Rural Voice, 1992-12, Page 46OL ALFA•LAVAL
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42 THE RURAL VOICE
Gardening
you can fertilize with nearly every
watering. Use a balanced house plant
fertilizer at about one quarter the
recommended strength.
Plants bought in December or the
first part of the new year will offer
blooms through the winter and can
then be set outside in June to flower
for the summer. Care outside is not
special. Use a little more water when
first set out and continue with the
same fertilizer program used indoors.
They are ideal for large pot plantings
on patios or in gardens where space is
at a premium.
In September you can take cuttings
from the stem at the top of a cane
where there is a flower bud or spent
blossom. The greener the cutting the
more easily it roots. As with the
larger rose varieties make your cutting
roughly like a "Y", with two green
stemmed branches holding three to
five total leaves (each leaf is
composed of five leaflets). The
cutting is prepared for rooting, by
forming the "Y" into a "V", cutting
through the base of the bottom leaf
where it is attached to the stem.
Cutting through the bottom leaf's base
accomplishes two important things. It
allows for easy removal of that leaf
and it reveals and damages the
arrowhead -shaped leaf bud. If this
bud is not properly damaged by the
cutting action, the stem will not root.