Gardening Tips
Your fortnightly gardening tips for indoors and outdoors |
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Carry out the final spraying of the year against pests and
diseases. Check the design of your garden and move evergreen shrubs as necessary. Continue
mulching. Purchase bulbs for planting immediately. Take cuttings of evergreen shrubs.
Arrange for the care of your houseplants while you are on holiday.
Spraying
Before going on holiday it may be worthwhile walking round the garden to see if any
plagues threaten. A quick spray with an insecticide may prevent a population explosion
whilst you are away. Roses and other plants such as michaelmas daisies that might become
disfigured with mildew and other fungus troubles can be protected by a dose of a systemic
fungicide. You are unlikely to need to do any more spraying after this until next year.
Deadheading. This is done to encourage fresh flowering and to produce a tidy effect. A
sharp pair of secateurs or flower cutters in one hand and a glass of sustaining liquid in
the other is the chosen method of the easy gardener!
Moving Shrubs. This is one of the good times- while everything is in full growth- to check
the details of your overall garden design. There could well be shrubs that have outgrown
their places and will need to be either moved or sacrificed. Evergreen shrubs that need to
be moved can be lifted and repositioned this month if they are watered very thoroughly
first and then moved with a considerable rootball of soil. After repositioning they will
need watering in again. The trick is to move the shrubs before they have got too large and
to complete the whole operation quickly. |
| Dear Sirs; just a note to thank you for
publishing my letter of inquiry Re: The Barnes family (Roy, Jack and Peter) I was very
pleased to-day to receive a telephone call from Roy. We had a great chat and I will again
correspond with him in the furture. Picking up trails from the early '40s when Roy was in
the British Navy and I was a Canadian School girl looking for a penpal. Thank you again.
Sincerly, Joan Bradley (Mrs.) |
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| Embarrassing
Stories |
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| In year four I was enjoying a nice plate of roast dinner
with my friends at school. We were laughing and joking, as kids do. Then someone made me
laugh so much that I moved my arm in such a way as to flip the plate into my lap. Warm
gravy began to seep through my trousers and I had to suffer the embarrassment of the
dinner lady wiping it off me with a paper towel. As if that wasn’t enough, I then had
to wear some of those bright blue plastic shorts which, in effect, announced to everyone
that I’d suffered something embarrassing. |
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