Tb Oagoc Skrteameo, SaUm. Oregon
Sunday. July 23. 1S5I Vol 101. No. 123
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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.
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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. .
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. -
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; 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.