Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1948 — Page 28

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Gardener ‘Plants’ Rusty Nails

: * ‘NEITHER rusty nails nor broken rakes, tin cans Jor rain water, get away from John Wolsiffer, 1445

" lavender,” sald Mr. W.

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Orange St. without helping his garden. Fer originality and utility are his guides to a productive city lot. He was planting hydrangeas the other day when I dropped around. 3 “Now just wait until I fin some rusty nails,” he said. “You kno¥ what they're for, don't you?” (Could I say no?) “Makes the blossoms blue instead of pink,” I hazarded, wondering if maybe it was just the other way around. 5 “Well, at least it'll make them “But that isn’t enough iron in there. If I only bad an old rusty can. Anything that rusts will do it. Here, this piece of broken rake is enough.” So into the hole it went with the hydrangea roots. “Now if I put these things all on one side maybe I'll get blue flowers on this side and pink on the other next year.” With that we left the hydrangea to its multi-colored fate and I was introduced to a new kind of irrigation system. Of course, Mr. Wolsiffer has plenty of city water to sprinkle with, but he’s

not going to let that rain water | get away. And like all clever |

gardeners, in time of rain he prepares fot drouth. - ” -

“YOU'LL SEE,” he explained,

pointing to an outside down- !|!!|| “I catch {||| all the rain off the house and | lead it out by tiles under the |

spout on the house,

garden, with these overflows to take care of heavy downpours, That more than doubles the rainfall on my garden plot.

“A row of tile will water an | f

area 15 feet on either side of it ~—a whole 30 foot-strip. Last

year this half of my garden |

didn’t have to be sprinkled at

all. So this year I'm extending |

the tile.”

Mr. W. will take no time with |

disease ridden plants. Out they come for resistant varieties.

“Pixwell gooseberries, Red |

Lake currants — they're the ones to raise. Perfection currant always gets plant lice— don’t plant that.”

Instead of shrubs he’s put |

out bush cherries in variety.

And he’s even got a new slant | on ground covers. He's plan. | ning to set strawberry plants |

on one side of his yard where

now nothing but completely un- |

productive bluegrass grows. Well, it's, a thought. Wild

ones might even produce a mild

crop in partial shade. ” “ ” CLEVER planters choose trees and shrubs good to look

at in fall and winter as well as |

spring and summer. Mary Larkin Cook of Anderson writes that brilliant fall performers include “all the sumacs.” Sassafras, too, is pretty after frost

and its bright red seeds are

relished by the birds. “Sour gum or tupelo turns brilliant red and orange with

It is one of the hardest to transplant .but sometimes survives if moved with the soll Intact

“The sweet gum or liquidamber is another tree that's rich red in autumn. But dif-

ferent trees in the same family |

may vary so it's best to see

your tree or shrub before choos- '

ing. The smoke tree, for ex-

ample, varies through a wide,

color range.” » » »

CORRECTION: It seems I

was entirely too enthusiastic (Hk

about the formation of our local rose society, when I told

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‘GARDENING ‘CALENDAR

MID-NOVEMBER reminders: Prune newly set roses short—about eight inches

the entire top with earth for winter protection. } Late fall into winter is the time to use slow acting organic fertilizers like bone meal. Plants that specially like it include iris, peonies, roses. It’s perfect for perennial borders, too. It won't burn even when you use it with a generous hand.

A cold frame provides easy storage for cabbages, also Chinese cabbage. Provide a winter ¢o a t (straw, dead weeds) for chard and hardy onion rows, ‘Cover them lightly when Teally cold -weather arrives. You'll find they grow extra early in spring and you may be able to use them during winter warm spells.

You can buy aluminum slip covers for your clay flower pots now, at fancy prices. But you can buy a whole roll of aluminum paper (for less than the cost of one) and make yourself a quantity. It’s available at department, hardware and variety stores. A few scattering leaves on the lawn will just enrich the soil a bit. But if they mat together they'll kill the grass.

John Wolsiffer, with the overflow for his underground irriga- | 5

given before-—Central Library, 8:15 p. m.

It is this next

from the ground. Then cover:

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Dishing the Dirt

!Q—T've tried forcing spring bulbs

A-—It’s really easy to force

indoors but haven't been successful, says Mrs. Sadie Butler, 645 E. 9th St. What is the secret of bringing them to bloom instead of having them dry up?

spring bulbs if you observe a

who may not have seen the fertilizing formula—use a teaspoon of ammonia to a quart of water. Water any foliage

week. Do not use on flowering

single precaution. Keep them in @—I have a trumpet vine and

a cool spot until the bud sheath! begins to open. Most failures come from bringing the poor _ plant out of its dark, cool rootforming hideaway into the hot Sahara of the modern living “room. Thirsty air welcomes the opportunity for a drink, and takes it out of the plant.

The dry bud sheath gets so A—I can speak from

tough and leathery no flower! can open it. Of course, unless you buy precooled bulbs, you'll’ need to leave the bulb in a cool. dark closet or attic until it shows by considerable growth! that it's ready for the light. This will take six to eight weeks.

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A—No, unléss you want an al-|

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of leaf growth.

bino ivy—supposing it survived

long enough to get bleached!

The valuable ingredient in the!

ammonia is nitrogen, booster (For those’

‘weed, we've decided.

poison ivy growing along a fence where they are mixed with my raspberries and boysenberries, writes Sam Johnson, Franklin. The ivy and trumpet vine send up shoots everywhere. Is there anything I'can do to eliminate them without killing the berries?

on this subject. It's more trouble to spot spray a mixture of berries and ivy than to hand! If you! can. still‘locate your ivy (it's not too hard for a close observer) get after the ivy roots, this fall after a hard rain. Luckily new roots are close to the surface. If left until next; spring they’ll have fanned out! to a discouraging area. We use heavy gauntlet gloves and, after a poison ivy party, wash! hands and face with strong laundry soap then rinse with! alcohol. (Beauty parlors, please] note!) But lanolin applied aft-' erwards prevents too dry skin.! If anybody knows an easier remedy for a poison ivy tangle,

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let's hear from you. |

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If you have a question, send | it to Marguerite Smith, The In- i dianapolis Times, Indianapolis | 9. Or if you can give addition- | al information from your own | experience, let's have that, teo.

Q—We. want to make a perennial

border, writes an out-of-state, gardener, I do not want such! a variety as seed catalogs show) but would some of the, nicer flowers. Any advice will be welcome.

A—Perennials are awfully per-|

manent boarders and big eaters so the soil needs to be good. Trenching the bed before plant-, ing, Hy if subsoil is poor, ! is well worth the work. To! trench a flower bed (or vege-!

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. SUNDAY, NOV. 14, 1948

About Gardening Problems

| table plot) take out a spade’s

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