JUMES GARDEN !
Billy called . . . the well-
known
Rev.
Billy
Hultz,
creative Editor-in-Chief of the
belated, missed, U.L.E. ... and
said
in
an
excited
voice,
"We're going to press." Well,
maybe his voice didn't have the
ring of true excitement in the
usual sense of the word, but I
heard
an
under-the-breath,
positive decision of "Man the
boat, full steam ahead!"
He added, "If you want to
turn in a column, the deadline
is the 20th."
This was the
14th. Six days to put together
thoughts or helpful hints about
this year's garden.
All I could think of was
it seems I'm never satisfied
with what nature dictates, or
that by the time the rains quit
and the soil warms up enough to
plant annuals and seed, the
displays at the garden stores
have
been
picked
over,
my
favorite pansies are bought
out, along with other annual
bedding plants.
Maybe you
share my thoughts.
This
last
mild
winter
allowed all my geraniums and
fuchsias to live over in my
cold frame.
Problem: I thought it was
going to be a very cold winter
and I just bedded them down
deep in the cold frame with
covering of peat moss, news
papers and a heavy plastic lid.
They
were
all
blooming
so
prolifically I just couldn't
bring myself to cut them back.
Because of the heavy rains of
winter, I seldom opened the lid
of the cold frame to check
them,
but continued to see
blossoms all winter through the
clear plastic. In May when I
opened
the
lid
to
start
planting
them
with
other
annuals,
the geraniums were
still blooming, but on the ends
of 2' tall stalks. Again I
hated to cut them back to bare
stumps that would take lots of
prayer and hope that they would
thrive for summer blooms. The
fuchsias were also leggy with
end blooms.
My complaint is nature
would have probably been kinder
to me if it had been a cold
winter and killed off all my
tender plants, as I now have
the problem of trying to place
all
these
‘-.all,
blooming
geraniums in corners of my deck
to hide all the tall, bare
stems with blossoms.
I did
pinch the fuchsias back and
hope
I'll
eventually
have
bushier plants.
lot of
trade. By late May,
the plants have been picked
over or are root bound and
producing
overgrown,
leggy
plants. Is this also the reason
for stores to start advertising
Christmas on Halloween? Who is
to blame— public demands or the
merchants?
Since I'm not one who buys
Christmas presents in July or
swim suits in January or frozen
turkeys on sale in August for
Thanksgiving dinner, it seems
I'm always six months behind!
My Solution: Well, so be
it! I'll never mend my ways.
I'll still be shopping for
annuals in the middle of June.
I won't even give a thought to
Christmas for another six-and-
a-half months.
I will buy a
fresh
turkey
at
Osburn's
Grocery to cook for Thanks
giving dinner, and who needs a
swim suit to wade in the cold
surf ... I'll just roll up the
cuffs of my jeans.
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Solution: I have marked on
my calendar next fall to cut
everything back before putting
them to winter storage, and in
the late summer take cuttings
for more vigorous and healthy
plants. The same could be done
with fuchsias.
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The
mild
winter
also
didn't harm all the bad insects
that attack my garden! It may
take gallons of soapsuds and
Safer product to get rid of all
the aphids, white flies, spider
mites and other starving bugs.
My garden does have an abun
dance of ladybugs this year and
each morning I talk to them:
"Go, Baby, go, eat to your
heart's content." Their little
bodies are getting fatter by
the day.
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