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Tb Oagoc Skrteameo, SaUm. Oregon Sunday. July 23. 1S5I Vol 101. No. 123 e "',0 . 13 ' H I . ' t t ' 1 1 , Timefdr Time still remains far thm a- ond crop of vegetable in your Liberty Gardens. If plants are available, either in your own flats or from a local dealer, then cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, can be planted in the apace for merly occupied by early pea, radishes, turnips. Root crops such as beets, car rots nd rutabaga may be plant ed in August to yield medium sized, tender vegetables lor fall consumption. Both radishes and turnips planted during the last two weeks In August will furnish fine vegetables later in the fall. 1 If you have a heavy soli that Is compacted by heavy summer irrigation and baked by the sun, . Question-Answer Box Question Our Kalmia . has -yellowish leaves and seems to Ha 4stn Lnutkln kilt w 11 Wt : long ago, I had a commercial grower in to look at it and "Oh, yes " he knew right awsy and gave the trouble some long sounding name that started with something like chlorine and gave as the remedy to feed it boron. I did this and f the shrub still looks sick. Is there anything else we can do for it? CON. Answer A number of things could be wrong. Something could be attacking the roots, or it could be chlorosis. To obtain a com paratively quick response in re covery from chlorosis (yellowing or loss of normal green in foliage due to deficiencies) 'spray 'the leaves with one ounce of iron sul fate to two gallons of water. Or treat the soil with a 50-00 mix ture of ferrous sulfate and sul fur, using IV pounds per 100 square feet. Question Am a new Rose grower. Would like very much to get ; the annual you wrote about. Please Mail me . one. A D. Answer I do not have the rose annual. It may be obtained from the American ftyie Society at Har risburg, - Perm. To - non-society members, the cost is, I believe, 14.50. . e Question I am starting some house plants for my little green house. Could I give these some of the new booster type fertilizers? A.T.R. AnswerThat would depend entirely upon what type of poll and what the plant are A Urge number &f plants benefit ; from booster materials. There is. a great deal ; of difference, too, in the booster materia! : themselves, Some c only as a Kh t-in-the, arm, Others are a mora perma nent qrganic food. Question - Somepne told me tht it wap.too late to feed my lltm 4.ot tint Ir-ifftltl-ll-t In and wt hive a lot of tm rose wnien . wa WPUia? us;e ra pave bloom this fall. Thought mafbe we could give them something to make them wake up and produce better. They have been pretty dry this past month. We haven't removed the old blooms yet. What do you suggest? H. R. Answer Get busy at once. You should be able to have some very fine roses in early October, but you have no time to waste. Cut off the old blooms. Do not prune them down too heavily now three-fourth inches is sufficient with t each bloom. Start at this early in the morning. Then, if you have a sprinkler system wa-. ter them thoroughly, washing away all dust and debris. Then dust with some all purpose dust. That evening give each bush about a quart of water mixed with some organic food such as one of the new fish fertilizers, or with liquid manure. Keep the rose bed well cultivated, but do not cultivate deeply. Just scratch the surface so that the soil will act dry out and crack. This pex- Second Crop cover your beet and carrot seed with sand instead of soil. You will get much better emergence, U you have plenty of irriga tion, and .August does not prove too hot, you can get a fine crop of fall peas by planting early dwarf varieties, during the first two weeks in August. It is sur prising how very good these peas can be. Your garden editor had never heard of planting peas be fore in August, until last year when she had some very fine ones picked in t Salem garden, Those of you who have cottages with a bit of land at the coast, and plant your peai.et once now, may also have some very fine Ones this fall-' ' ' formance should be repeated In about eight to ten days. After that just water thoroughly once a week in the morning and dust about every seven to 10 days. The amount of commercial fer tilizer you put into the quart of water should depend upon the manufacturer of the fertilizer. Follow the directions on the con tainer carefully. The garden edi tor ran into a new brand of the fish fertilizer this! week which ' contained 8 per cent available nitrogen. Something like ' this should be good for starting roses Into good fall growth. But don't fertilize after August. . . , . ; Question We are new at gar dening. Set out a nice home patch of strawberries in rows in April. Now there are runners all over everything. We'd like a solid row but don't want it solid between, the rows too.. Should we replant the runners in the regular rows? K. D. , - - Answer Just give them a little discipline by arranging the runners into :.the rows. If there are too many.Temove a few. Care at this time will make .your strawberry patch much better next springs Don't let any of the weeds grow. , 0,0 e . Question Something happen ed to my parsley. First I noted the foliage was wilted down arid , when I took a hold of it to see what was wrong, the tops came up without roots. Would there be a root rot that could have de stroyed It? G, T. ' Asiiwef Could not say from, such a iqeager description. My gueaj Would be that you hava mole run 4 and that mice have eaten off the roots. Mice, I know are very ionc- of parsley roots. , . , . Question When and how can one take carnation cuttings?. N. C. Answer Commercial growers tell ma they do this in late fall ' or early winter. Cuttings are about three inches long, taken r from the baa or stems of stock plants. Insert the cutting in sharp sand and keep moist and over mild bottom heat They should be sufficiently rooted for potting in a month. From time to time they are shifted to larger pots , and then in May they are set out in the. garden. In a mild spring, they may be set out In April. . Question - Will loquats win ter over here? Started one from seed in Arizona and brought it with me. Is getting too big for the pot. T. R. -Answer No, not unless you Elant it into a larger pot and eep the pot In the house or greenhouse. This is a small-growing tree but It is subtropical. It doer well In Florida and south ern California. ' dne expert says Liberty garden crops which are eaten raw should not be harvested more than ten minutes before using: others not more than half an hour. Ary to come as near to this as possible. Will I.IHHIII I I IIIIIIWIII.IB I ' I in I I mill ' '.' --i--..) ..v s:. - ; ' ---' ' .. . . h ?' -'v'. ' . j' '"v y - t , , ' - ! - - 'v" 4 ' " , - r f KV , , t . .... ; ' . .S. Vl." .t ' - . ' ' V-i"'.. , a -: . ' ' . i ,. . .'; . f i f, ---r.-L-.r -T ----.-r; -- a, f .. t .... r ' S. Pf August (3d Starting Professor Victor H. Ries of , Ohio state university, one of America's .foremost gardening authorities, maintains that you are not a real gardener unless you use a cold frame. Anyone can go . to the nursery and buy annuals and perennials all ready to plant, but no gardener has earned his greenthumb until he has attained that mixture of art and luck that constitutes success in starting plants from seed, says the pro Xfe&sor '''.'....: August is a good time for one to "get your feet wet" in cold - frame technique by starting some perennials and biennials, most of which have rather easy eulture. Your first requisite is proper soil mixture for the flats in which the seeds are to be planted. This con sists of 1 part each of sand, gar- .- mnli unit nrntA material such as compost or peat moss. If your garden soil is very sandy to begin with. Just 'mix it half and half with organic material. No plant food should be added to this mixture until tt seedlings xCold lime rpr. Frame' have emerged and are large enough to transplant to other, flats or to the permanent place in the garden. . - Jimong the perennials which da well when started during the first two weeks in August are Shasta daisy, pyrethrum or paint-" ed 4alsvt delphinium, columbine, oriental poppy, salvia patens, phlox, gailtardia, veronica and coreopsis.. Biennials include hol lyhocks, canterbury bells, sweet Williams, English daisy, foxglove, forget-me-nots and pinks. , Barely cover the seed with fine soil, set the flats in water to soak up from the bottom, then keep -there. shaded and moist until the , seedlings emerge. At this time the flats can be moved.lnto full sunlight, and in a fe weeks the plants can be thinned out or transplanted. If you wish to leave them in the cold frame during winter, then when fall comes water them thoroughly, cover v"H. -traw and place them in the covered cold Xramc, They will start growth in Czrdz tl Calendar ' August -S-t GalJluluJ show, d rants Pass. Aurtut 11 r- )vi;siisn's club w Flower show, rcnkaweyi AuUt 3 Ii.tioo-i uladiol , us show, Yshlm.1. . . 4 Auctut 4-8 I'oHlfthil Fuchsia society flowt? fcljow, Portland Civic Information cutter. Non competitive. Admission free. August 7 Swegle Road Gar den club. Hostess: Mrs. ' George Quinn. Trogram: "Gladiolus, Mrs. Melvin Ladue. "Seeds, Mrs. Oscar Wigle. August 11 Summer Flower , show, Silvrrton Jay C - Ettes, Eugene field auditorium. August U IS Oregon Fuchsia society," annual show, , , Joornal Building. ..." Attgust IS I Abanon Herb Tea. August XS-li Polk County Fair flower show. August ti'ti The. 42nd an nual show of Snohomish County Rose and Dahlia forlety, Floral htl, Fverett, We:h. - - .xws-.-.-. ' - .,,. .-. M!eW ' ; lowrr r!flur4 re?Mr.. t cue that , It U Iris planu. i t :a here in Wi.'j.Mttte valieyY LW rhl ir,iii i:y be i .d any thrt ront now t..l October .. Cut the earlier t1 tj ar plant ed t:. better. J(j t a Lady I.Xohr iris. Oae tt V Sot so new and therefore "cot ae ex pensive" sorts. New Iris cata , lorues are out and our own Viillamette valley growers can supply practically $f Iris of fered anywhere. Action Needed ToCutLc:s!n Tomato Dlirht Average summer weather 'warm days, e::l r.'rf.ta;. inter spersed with irrijeratiorr err early , rains breed trouble with late tomato blights Dark water-soaked areas on the leaves which are covered with a frosty white layer indi cate that blight has struck. On the fruit the symptome- are reddish-brown hard as on the stem end: If you dont take Im mediate action, this fungus dis ease will soon strip your plants of leaves and your tomato har vest will be practically non exlstant. -. As is true, of every other gar den pest, be' it insect or disease. . insurance dusting is the surest . means of avoiding serious trouble. Such dust comes under various trade names and should , be applied every 7 to 10 days during late July and early . August. ' early spring and may then be transplanted and grown in the perennial border.
