Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Summer 1983, page 22

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Hints for your summer garden 7 Flowers planted around trees help protect them from lawn mower injury, When you water the flowers. water deeply to help keep the tree healthy during dry periods. Be sure to choose shade-loving annuals such as impatiens, begonias and coleus. - Did you know? Picking old blossoms frequently encourages most annuals to flower even more abundantly. Three Generations Wood/rouse Branch, Norfolk South District has three generations amongst its members. Pictured are Mrs. Dennis MCCutcheon (fore- ground), behind her is her aunt, Mrs. Lester Feere (branch president) and on the right is Mrs. Earl Reichheld, their aunt and branch life member. 22 â€" Many gardeners ask when to water their outdoor garden plants. If any 15 to be de done. the best time is in the morning or early afternoon, giving ample time for plants to dry before sundown. If plants are wet overnight, fungus troubles may occur. Water enough to soak the root area, but no more than once or twice a week. Only rarely would you need to water daily. - Why grow annuals? Because annuals are easy to grow, quick to bloom, flower continuously, and make beautiful cut flowers to bring indoors. Hundreds of varieties are available in almost every colour imaginable. So, if you want a beautiful and colourful landscape early this year, plant annual bedding plants. Visit your nearest garden centre. v Want to get more out of your vegetable garden? Try interplanting. To interplant, you put rows of fast growing vegetables between rows of slow growing ones. All the crops are planted at once, but they’ll mature at different times. Simply set rows of fastâ€"growing crops such as lettuce. Spinach or radishes between slower crops like tomatoes or cucumbers. The speedy ones will be ready for harvest just about when the slow ones get big and need lots of room. Home is a priceless stronghold If family ties are bound By faithful trust and wholesome love... There happiness is found. Home is a secret stronghold Away from worldly cares, Where we invite our good friends in To share our easy chairs. Raymond W. Eberhardt â€" Do you have an area around mm home where grass just won‘t prawn You might want to try plantngé ground cover. These are densg 10w, growing plants that eventually A. read to form lush, green carpets Fm shady areas, try pachysandra F0, sun to part shade, plant hypt rum with its delicate yellow flowers. mm pretty lavender flowers, ajug and periwinkle. All are easy to gro â€" There are lots of bedding '11s that flower all summer lont .nd make your shaded areas as co|< lul as they are cool. Wax begonia we round clusters of pink, red or its flowers which bloom so pro! ly, they often hide the glossy fl :6 lmpatiens and coleus can’t be l en for adding bright colours to fly areas. Home is a private palace That bears its whispered tears With promise that the future holds Contentment through the years Home is a shining citadel, The center of all pleasure. It weaves a web of childhood days... Memories to treasure.

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