Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1952 — Page 36

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Roses Need Hot Spell Attention

ROSES need a little gen-

‘tle attention during

hot weather. Heat isn't their best friend, Don’t urge them into heavy production now with too much fertili- ‘ zer. Rather mulch, water, and dust or spray regularly. Then in cool fall .days you'll have bloom second only to June's. = 8 2 MULCHES become important as August approaches. Ground

dries out fast under hot mid-

summer sun. Even-a thin layer of grass clippings, ground cobs, peat moss or what have you saves quantities of moisture. But to keep weeds down thicken the mulch to several inches.

" = o STRAWBERRIES spend the summer making runners. Unless you want a matted row and smaller berries better pick off extra runners every week or so. Four or five runners to a plant hit a nice medium between fussy gardening and not efough care. ;

5» " IRIS CAN BE divided and reset any time now. The quicker the better for next year’s bloom.

8 Ld ~ RASPBERRIES HAD their full share of anthracnose this season. If you want to control this disease that dries up fruiting canes just when your mouth was all set for raspberries and cream, cut out those old canes now. They carry over the disease for next year’s crop.

= Sd s PHLOX IS blooming now, the backbone of the July garden. Dusting phlox with your triple threat rose dust will help some. of those difficulties phlox enjoys such as mites and leaf blights.

Ld » » BERGAMOT, bee-balm, horse-mint, or Oswego tea, whatever you want to call it, is in delightful bloom. Easy to raise as a weed, it comes in many colors not commonly used, such as the lavender an pink varities. :

- » ¥ CUCUMBERS and MELONS . need continuous dusting against beetles that carry the fatal wilt disease. Use rotenone. Dust under vines rather than on top surface.

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CAN YOU BEET THIS?—Harold Craig (left) raiised string beans without beetles. Ross Nichols said his crop was beetles without beas. :

FINE POINTS—Prof. Ward, of Purdue, goes over the fine points of vegetable exhibits for the fair with Clifford Irwin, Ray Jackson, Chester Freeland, and Arlene Hoover (left to right). :

Garden Events—

Clubs Plan

Meetings

A number of garden clubs and flower societies take vacations from meetings when members vacation. But most clubs go right through the summer with their schedules. This week's meetings are as fol-

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FRIDAY

Broad Ripple Garden Club: 1 p. m. Mrs. John G. Jacks, 5602 Carrollton Ave, hostess. Horticulture speciments and panel discussion by Mesdames M. R. Morrett, Jerry Huenefeld, Earl Burkhart, Richard Golbach.

Rural Friends Garden Club: Mrs. John L. Pope. Mrs, Alfred Hoop will speak on “Conditioning Flowers and Preparing for the Flower Show.” Exhibits will be arrangements featuring vegetables.

' | Brookside Garden Club: Mrs.

Harold Hays, 58068 Oxford, hostess. Mrs. Roy Summers will speak on “Hemerocallis.” Roll call--a Favorite Lily. Assistant hostesses, Mes - dames Euclid - Whife, “Louis Kuhlwilm, Adelaide Edwards.

; SUNDAY Nature Study Club: 3 p. m. Open House at the cabin in Woollen’s Gardens. Program —‘ ‘Vacation Chatter.” Hosttesses, Louise Zimmerman and Dollie Stuck.

Watch Wilted Plants

Most vegetables will droop in the hot sun, even soon after a rain; and if they are upright and crisp the next morning they may not need water. But when they are wilty in the morning, soak the soil.

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Safeguard: Your Plants -

Leaf spots, blights and all manner of plant diseases flourish in hot damp weather. If your garden seems to have more than its share of these

troubles, here are a few pointers. ONE—Keep weeds down around your useful plants. Crowding weeds cut air circulatfon. That prevents drying of foliage.

TWO--Never sprinkle so late

age disease,

THREE~Don't mulch plants | | susceptible to crown rots (such and colum- |

delphiniums bines). If you mulch the bed they're growing in, keep mulch

| away from plant.

FOUR—Keep controls on hand so you can use them at the first hint of treuble. Don't

peratures soar. (90 degrees is the critical temperature according to Cynthia Westcott, the well - known plant “doctor.”

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COMPETITOR—Myrtle Shockely business when she decided to compete with older brother Virgil.

got into the vegetable raising

Juniors Make Plans fer Fair Entries

By MARGUERITE SMITH Times Garden Editor .

PREPARATIONS are already well under way for the State Fair. That's on “the junior gardening front. A group of ardent young cabbage and bean raisers caucused in a downpour the other morning, It was all part of the county agent's regular. all-day event when kids and profs and ag. experts jaunt around together. They visit gardens. They point out-bugs and blights on the hoof, so to speak. They discuss remedies. They consider how to gather vegetables for those fair exhibits. This particular caravan gathered at the Orville Shockley home in Clermont. Two young Shockleys are keen gardeners. Myrtle was inspired some seven years ago to try to beat older brother Virgil. ” on ” WHILE RAIN poured and cars assembled. I talked with Harlan Fulmer, county agent's man in charge of all this youthful activity and to Prof. W. B. Ward, longtime Purdue vegetable expert. Prof. Ward is all enthusiasm for the new hybrid sweet corn, Hoosier Gold. It's Purdue developed, of course. He says it's ¢ top quality and a week to 10 days earlier than Golden Cross hybrid. Good for either freezing or canning. Mr. Fulmer had a good word for salad bowl lettuce. He likes the looks of it in the garden as well as on table. By the time we got this far various young fry had assem-

Wick-Water Your Plants

Vacationing away from home? Warn your houseplant - caretaker against too much water. More plants drown during vacation than die from thirst.

Wick-watering pots are another answer to the houseplant problem when you're away from home, For short stays plants can be kept happy by setting pots in a bed or box of damp peat moss. Some houseplanters fix up bowls of water with a tape running hose-fashion from water to. potted plant. (Bury the frayed end of the tape in soil in pot and you have a home-made

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bled. Quizzed about their gardens, Harold Craig said, sure he'd managed to raise beans without beetles. (Old stuff to an experienced vegetable man, doubtless.) But his pal Ross Nichols grinned and said he could beat that. He'd raised beetles without beans.

s - 2 _. BEFORE WE LEFT for the next stop we had to pass on the Shockley garden and Mrs, Shockley’s -flower-filled African violets though they weren't exactly on the schedule.

Virgil’s and Myrtle’s garden, the experts decided, was doing right well except for some melon blight. This was the price they paid for letting the garden take care of itself while the family vacationed in Mexico. As for the African -violets, they drew forth various irreverent remarks from the agrieultural gentlemen present, Mr. Fulmer (may the African Violet Society forgive him) thinks “they're the Iousiest flowers ever,” But Pat Murphy, his fellow agriculturist, admits to raising a few himself. By that time Dwight Cottingham, Ben: Davis ag. teacher, got the caravan going. We moved on to the big and happily rainproof barn of Ed and Herbert Ristow. Their daughters, Barbara and Emily follow in their father’s footsteps and raise vegetables, too. Here we had “class.” Prof. Ward presided. The pupils ranged in age from weeks old kittens to us adults well past the junior gardening age. The chairs were comfortable (?) upended vegetable crates. And in no other school I ever attended did a kitten casually go to sleep curled up in nice warm dog fur. The attention of the youngest tomato raisers was (need it be said) a little divided.

» » = BUT ON WITH the vegetables. Here the young gardeners learned that all their tomato | and potato vine troubles started in the spring. So next year they | were advised to get busy early, | as professionals do, and spray | to control leaf blights. | |

For it just isn’t so, they | learned, that potato tops should get yellow early in summer.’| Rather, the longer the tops can | be kept green the bigger the | spuds will be. Curling tomata leaves weren't anything to worry about, said Prof. Ward. Just too much hot sun on tender foliage. Quesions from the audience brought forth other vegetable information. ‘How to control

bugs that carry blight on cucumbers and melons, yet not kill the helpful bees? The answer—use ‘ rotenone. Avoid DDT, lindane, chlordane. Rotenone will get the beetles but not the bees. Want brussels sprouts and can’t raise them? Here's an easy way. When you cut a cabbage, says Prof. Ward. let the stem stand. Scrape it a bit. By late fall you'll have small cabbages growing up and down the stem. Just as good as regular sprouts. And so it went. After some good advice on selecting vege-

tables for their fair exhibits Prof. Ward wound up with a question on krilium. “Krilium,” says he, “is just fine if you've got a lot of money and don’t know what to do with it.” Otherwise, we gathered, you may just as well use organic matter to loosen that cement you call soil.

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N midsummer dry spells come along, the birds are literally terribly dependent on the filling of your bird baths, Don’t let them down. You'll get paid for daily filling of their baths by the antics of the young ones as well as the oldsters as. they

heat. Water in summer, prob--ably more than food in winter draws interesting bird types to entertain you. - = LJ > if MRS. VELDON MONTGOM ERY, 500 8. High School- Rd., passes on this garden story she thinks might well be used as an example. A Colorado gardener, out for a walk one summer evening, saw a sign on a garden gate. It read, “Come in and see our garden. A thing of beauty is a joy to share.” She went in. Halfway up the path another sign read, “Yes, you really are welcome.” The visitor enjoyed not only the flowers but the heart warming happiness brought by the owner's thoughtful kindness.

o a 2 : ANY TIME you're inclined to scold yourself for. being too

slow at starting your garden in spring, ponder this sad tale. A local gardener started a lot of plants in his little greenhouse just to get a jump on the season. After the weather warmed up, he sowed more seeds outdoors. And the cosmos, in particular, that he seeded outdoors are now taller and better than their early-started sisters.,

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