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Gardening tips for the week
• .. This is the time of the year
Go Fish|n
Cure Told for
Tomato Wilt '
ly ALFRED AMES, Garden Editor
Mid-August, the season when
the tomatoes wilt and die. The
crab-grass takes over the straw-
berry patch and every worm,
mite, grub, and caterpillar gets
in his best licks. There's one
sure-fire solution for all t h e s e
problems--throw your bed rolls
in the jalopy and go fishing!
So you want to stay and
fight? Let's start on the tomato
imteh. The symptoms, readily
seen by even us amateurs, may
include wilt, curly rolled-up
leaves, discolored foliage, de-
foliated plaDts and several oth-
ers of indescribable nathre.
Guess it was on account of all
this potential trouble that t h e
tomato was known aa the "love
apple."
Well, lets see what particular
disease we should choose to fit
out' symptoms. Fusurium wilt,
verti¢illium wilt, early blight,
late blight, pleaspora or rhyzop-
us rot, bacterial canker, spotted
wilt or just plain big !uicy to-
mato worms? Now that s just a
few of the tomato troubles--like
some pests such as beetles,
weevils wire-worms, crickets,
maggots, aphids, and thrips.
KEEP MOVING PLOT
In '47 we decided to be scien-
tific, treated the patch for wilt,
dusted for insect pests and lost
every plant. Still don't know
whether we applied the treat-
meat too early or too late --or
what we were treating or wheth-
er the plants would have come
through if we had just let ha.
turn take Its com'se.
Since that experience we've
had better than average luck,
We grow out" own plants from
what we believe is good seed,
and each year locate the plot
[m new soil. AII in all that prac-
tice seems to be an adwmtage
for most crops, particularly root
crops.
Somehow we got started on
the troubles of the tomato when
we intended to sound the fh'st
call for vinter vegetabIe a n d
flower planting. That's right,
get 'era in ground soon if you
want 'era to look like the pic-
tures on the seed. packets.
PLANT WINTER STUFF NOW
Lettuce, beets, carrots, peas,
and etc., mature to perfection in
the cool fall weather over most
of California. The trouble most
of us have is that we fail to
get 'era started soon enough.
Good germination and strbng
root growth go along with t h e
warm weather of the next six or
eight weeks--make use of it.
Most small places have )con-
siderable ' plantings of flees,
shrubs, hedges, and etc. Year
after year we trim, prune, and
haul off or burn a tremendous
amount of limbs, leaves and
weeds, All of this material took
plant food from the sell--how
mucll of it have you replaced on
the old homestead? There is no
way. to get around If --- you're
wasting a lot of energy if you
try to grow a garden without
feeding it. You should expect to
spend everal times as much on
fertilizer as you do on seeds
successful farmers do.
AilOUT FERTILIZER"
Bought a couple of hundred
pounds of fertilizer the other
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day. It ltappened to be a quiet
spell at the warehouse where I
picked the stuff up so a half
hour discourse on the compound-
ing, sacking, distribution, and
use of commercial fertilizer went
along with the purchase.
Now this outfit, mixes sacks
and sells hundreds of tons of fer-
tilizer for the use of successful
orchardists in a prosperous
farming region. The warehouse
was filled to the rafters with
hundred pound bags, each a tag
showing the exact proportioI of
the component food elements
and their source.
My friend went on to explain
the importance of this informa-
tion that a certain proportion of
this food was available immedi-
ately and that some of the or-
ganic materials would not break
down until the first elements
had been consumed. The price
of each ]-nix, of course, wa,q
determined by the actual food
content of the material.
"AUNT AGATHA'S HOUR"
Listened to "Aunt Agatha's
Hour of Agricultural Agony"
over the local radio the other
day. Seems that there is a grow-
ing concern over the lack of
vitamins, or something, in food
grown with the use of "com-
mercial fertilizers."
Let's call our shots a little
more accurately- if we mean
straight inorganic compounds
don't say "commercial fertiliz-
ers." Here are some of the
sources of the foods listed on lhe
tags of those bags of "commer-
cial fertilizer" mentioned earlier
blood, fish meal, chicken, ma-
nure, steer manure, urea, feed
meal and bone meal. What --no
pahlum?
Some Perennials
Good in August
August need not be a month
of waning bloom in the garden.
The current issue of Sunset of-
fers a list of perennials that will
flower from now well into
autumn. Both gardeners and
growers vote the windflower as
the number one fall bloomirrg
plant for shade.
Tall branched stems carry
anemone-like flowers in white,
pink, or rose. They need rich
soil and lots of water.
Day lilies hold a record for
sustained blooming p o w e r.
Purple coneflower is invaluable
for a warm dry spot..-A few
plants of hybrid foosestrife will
spread a rosy glow over the
whole garden.
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active growth. Water them often
and apply sufficient food to
maintain their rapid growth.
Lack of moisture causes harden-
ing of the stems, a condition
that leads to inferior blooms. If
the plants have not been staked
by now then do" this job at
once.
Fuchsias are now in flower
and nlay be seen at nursery
yards. This is a good time to
make selections as yon can see
the plants at their best. Fuchsias
prefer a shady spot, plenty of
moistm'e. Giving them an over-
head sprinkling once a weeL
keeps the plants clean, produces
a more humid environment.
Potted plants, because of the
porous nature of the pots, are
susceptible to drying out in
warm weather. Placing a mulch
of American peat on the sm'face
aids in conserving rapists'e,
tends to lower the soil tempera-
ture at the surface.
FOR GREEN HUNTERS
A new competitive event, for
green hunters, has been added
to the program of the State
Fair's swank Horse Show, pre-
sented each evening in the Out-
door Arena with a seating capac-
ity of 5500. Prize money for the
show exceeds $35,000.
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OuJ'mo onl|ng , ,,
Two time-honored practices yield as well as those
now considered outmoded are 6 inches down; while
the sowing of sweet peas and the less trouble with
The fashion for green
planting of. asparagus roots in cut above the surface,
trenches. Sweet peas llanted of any need to plant
2 inches deep has proved to roots 6 inches deep.
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