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Flower eeds to ow: African daisy, Alyssum, annual loosen heavy clay soil, but Ell |
Canterbury Bell, Baby Blue Eyes, Blazing Star, Brachycome, best to let soft coal ashes weatl |
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Clarkia, Gilia, Godetia, Larkspur, Leptosyne, Linaria, Lupin, substances. I I I
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Tips on Strawber
killing chemical.
rles/ Lilies, Lily of lhe Va|ley, ]Monlbretia, Pancratium, l'ellow
Bulbs to sel: Gladiolus, Gloxinia, Ismene, Japanese
a Garden Luxury Crop
By ALFRED AMES
Garden Editor, Magazine California
Spring fever is an insidious mental condition brought on
in winter by visions of vines, trees and bushes covered with
fruit. Of course, at just the right time the local nurseryman
receives his spring stock and puts it out near the sidewalk
/with an early blooming forsythia or jasmine alongside. And
then the swallows from Capis-
trend to Crescent City chuckle
u we come back each year to
buy.
Not too far from Capistrano,
in fact, in the foothills east of
Santa Aria in the Lemon Heights
auction, we saw a garden, the
ether day, that would cross up
the most sober swallow. Here
in the middle of January this
garden had lush beds of rich red
rhubarb, if you please, with
stalks as thick as broom sticks.
SWawberry ]Beds
In front of this, at the edge of
the terraces were the strawberry
beds studded at intervals with
their ruby red fruit. We know,
of course, that such a winter
garden is possible in only a small
climatic area but the ingenious
way in which this plan sur-
mounted some of the difficulties
of the home garden strawberry
patch is worthy of comment
Come now, why not admit that
after the first few berries have
ripened you quit dragging your
friends around to see the straw-
berries? The usual story is that
along in the middle of summer
our strawberry patch has fallen
victim to wilt, strawberry yel-
lows, or excess soil salinity and
we decide to leave it as a patch
of bermuda grass until next sea-
son.
This terraced bed provided ex-
cellent drainage, allowed the
patch to be sprinkled often, and
maintained an all around healthy
condition. As terracing is often
not Dractical why not follow a
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raised bed plan, spacing the
rows about 18 inches apart to
allow room to work?
Lots of Water
Strawberries demand lots of
water. The general practice is
to use furrow irrigation. If you
are phmning a new bed, plant a
variety proven in your locality
or fewer plants of several varie-
ties . . . eventually using run-
ners of the best to complete your
bei. Bearing plants should be
set at eight to 10 inches apart.
Allow only enough runners to
supply your needs for new plant-
ing. Strawberries respond best
to nitrogen fertilizers.
Probably the easiest method is
-to use a small amount of am-
monium sulphate evenly distrib-
uted in the furrow followed im-
mediately by a thorough irriga-
tion.
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Red. spider, aphids and lea
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seem to do well in most straw
berry Suds, so pan oll using suigi:
able dusting materials. Get rid
of the ants and in hot tnee-
a good sprinkling will help wash
a lot of your problems away!K
Measured in terms of buslIs
of beans, or tons of turnips, a
basket of berries costs a lot of
work--so why not consider 'em
sort of a luxury item? Instead
of Banner, Klondike or Blake-
more--label the rows Cham-
pagne, Caviar and Mama's new
hat/
FOLIAGE SPRAYS
Feeding plants through their
leaves is a growing practice
among orchardists and flower
growers. Foods lacking in the
soil can be supplied in foliage
sprays.
VITAL CHEMICAL
Nitrogen, essential in fertil-
izers, is a 'vital chemical in ex-
plosives.
Calla.
Vegetables: Beet, carrot, chard, parsley, peas, salsify,
spinach, turnip, onion sets, potatoes, deciduous h'uit trees,
berry phmts, rhubarb, artichoke and asparagus roots.
Preparation
of Soil Is
Very Important
Now that the first rains of the
winter season have blown in, we
begin thinking about revising
our gardens for the new grow-
ing season ahead.
After the first frost hits the
marigolds, petunias, zinnias and
other annual plants, we will be
removing these and replanting
with hardier types for winter
color. This is the time to put in
calendulas, stocks, pansies, snap-
dragons and other colorful flow-
ering plants now available at the
nurseries, as well as the more
permanent flowers such as the
primroses, gaillardias, delphin-
iums, daisies, columbines, Coral
Bells, phlox, and other showy
perennials, which make less
arduous the task of completing
tim pianting.
Basic Phase
Before going into this new
planting program, however, give
careful attention to preparation
of the soil, for this is one of the
most neglected and yet one of
the most important basic phases
of gardening.
Soil preparation includes loos-
ening the soil physicatiy so that
air can enter freely, roots en-
counter less resistaace to their
wanderings, excess water drains
away more readily, and manure,
fertilizer, and other ameliorating
materials cau be incorporated. It
also involves the addition to the
soil of humus (decayed organic
matter) in some form or other,
and of plant food.
You'll Be Eel)aid
The time you devote to soil
improvement will repay you
many times over in healthier
plants and finer blooms. There
are few soils that cannot be im-
proved by the addition of humus
forming materials, and you will
find many weeding and water-
ing problems easier to handle if
your soil is well worked ahead
of time.
Informal Design
for Perennial
Planting Is Best
In planting the perennial gar-
den the greatest charm is to be
created by avoiding a-regular
formal design. The simple rule
is to plant in groups of one
variety, preferably in odd num-
bers of three, five, etc., and to
ascertain the ultimate height of
each group so the tallest are
placed in the background and
the shortest in the foreground.
The dwarf edging varieties of
perennials of which there are
many, complete the picture in
forming a border. Whites serve
as accent plants to enhance the
beauty of the general planting.
Vegetable Growth
Topic of A/ticle
Growing the perennial vege-
tables, artichokes and rhubarb,
for effective use right in among
flowers and shrubs, is suggested
in an article in the February is-
sue of Sunset Magazine. A run-
down on the planting, culture
and garden uses of these and
other perennial vegetables is
slanted for western gardeners.
Although the best artichokes
are gro,n in the California fog
belt, the article tells bow to cul-
tivate them in the inland val-
leys, and with summer cropping
plus winter protection to grow
them even in cold-winter areas.
Even if the fruit is not good to
eat, the gardener still has the
plants.
The big leaves themselves are
ornamental--I i g h t grey-green,
and divided into many poiuted
lobes. And if conditions are to
their liking, the result may be
edible artichokes as well as a
highly decorative shrub.
The rhubarb's broad, crinkly
green leaves, ribbed with red,
offer an interesting contrast to
the big ferniike artichoke leaves.
Some gardeners even combine
rhubarb and artichokes in a bor-
der, and fill in with drifts of
delphinium and lilies.
%VINTER SQUASH
\\;Vinter squash makes good
soup when combined with on-
ions, potato, green pepper, celery
and milk.
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