Th« Dally Record. The Stroudsbursrs, Tn. — Friday, Oct. Ifi, Iflfi*
The Green Thumb
Planting Bulbs Inside Requires
Growing Bulbs Indoors: It's
an easy matter to plant bulbs
outdoors and wail tor tlic show
next spring. However, planting
them indoors (called forcing)
lakes a liltle bit more doing.
It's not difficult to grow and
produce flowers from bulbs if
you follow the method florists
use. For tulips, hyacinths and
daffodils try this: Set Ihc bulbs
in a loose potting soil, w i t h
points appearing above HIP surface.
Don't forgot to use pieces uf
pols or charcoal in buitom (if
l*)ls for drain;)}*. Allow al least
4 inch belwroi) Imllw. I-ill in
spaces IxMwccn bulbs with soil,
press it firmly around o a c h
bulb and pive pood \valeriuj:.
Your next job is io Imry Ihr
pf>( outdoors under a covering
of straw or in a coldfranie We
Inny ours in a sawdust pil
An empty pol is placed over
a pot full of bulbs (to Veep out as long as It nrais It. I.awn? r Send mt your name on a ; of Hie best flowers you can gel
rodents). Then sawdust is shovinto Ihc winter w i t h : identification,
(or partial shade or sun. Many
eled over the entire pols, to "long hair" are apt to be bald ! postal card and ask for "Lawn who grew it this summer
a depth of IS inches.
by spring, due to various dis- ] Card Guide." It's packed with found out thai Ihis annual
If you have a cellar that's
good information on year round blooms all summer long, will)
sufficiently cold, pots can be
shiny green foliage,
I-'all's a line time to feed your ! 'awn care.
stood on iho floor and buried. ! lawn
ami smbproof i( against i Balsam. Commonly called la- They make an attractive
Absolute darkness in a cold ! the hordes
of pests which have dyslippers. the balsam (no r e - i f l . hedge with flowers, or you
temperature is necessary for a gone underground.
lation to the evergreen) is one ' can plant them between everperiod of 10 to 12 weeks for
'
To
me,
fall
is the best time
roots to grow. Without t h i s
period, roots will not torni and to "beef up" a lawn so it'll resist weeds, diseases and inyou'll Ke( no flowers.
An unbelted £arase or base- sects the rest of the year..
Free: Would you like to have
ment might work fine, if they
Q ucs iion Of The Week - S.C. , the slran«cst winds blow Tie
are nol loo warm, or too cold. a handy "Lawn Card G n j d e" of ju.shkill: "We have a spot; tree Io slake, using a soft ' rope
About the Isl of J a n u a r y you made on sturdy cardboard, whicll is ,00 sh ., dy (or Kniss ,„ : „, a f J K U r c s kno,
{•an sUir! Io brjn^' pols into with hole punched, ready to g,.ow. A neighbor sakl we i-oiiM
Wrapping the trunk is good,
a cellar or any place where he lacked to the garage, tool- |,avc ;i;i thc pachysandra ground ns it prevcnls bark from splitthere's no sun. but where there shed or other storage place.
; covcr wc wi ,mcd. What's II) c ; ting and drying. It's highly reis some heat. SO to 60 degrees.
It has lawn care tips at a , best way Io root it and when?" j commended for larger tree's reWhen tops are 2" tall, bring glance, with hints on feeding, , Pachysandra
( J a p a n e s e ; cenlly transplanted
pots into a warm, bright room maintenance, weed and crab-ispurpe) makes an ideal ground j Cut sugar sacks, burlap or
and watch them start to bloom. grass control ^ o u i l hke the „„, for sun or slla(ic a l - ! watw-prorf paper mto slips 4
The Home I , a w n . Don't for- migrations of common weeds t h o u s n „ docs bcsl am , looks inches wide and Maple (or sew)
srt to keep your lawn mowed jtndj-ominon insects (or muck greener in semi - shaded areas, ends together. Start at t h e
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Vou can start new plants by ground and use a spiral wrap
pulling up single stems (with : will) about 2 inches overlap
'• roots) ami planting them in the '. Wrapping tree trunks will do
spot you want thorn Io grow, a lot to prevent the bark from
Keep them well watered.
drying oul, sun scald, b a r k
You can do the job in fall or splitting.
^ spring, although spring is prrv. G. of Mendham: "I see
feraljle.
many hooks advocate starling
Many gardeners pull up the the avocado or Alligator pear
stems and plant them w i t h o u t ; in w aler. This never works for
1 roots. They root easily but the me. A belter way is to start
secret is to keep the soil mnis- the pit in a 4 inch clay pol,
toned, and it's safer to do this n.<j ns polling soil.
'» spring.
Plant the pit in the soil so
Here's a new wrinkle: a read- that l-j of thc top is exposed,
er tells us he pulls up t h c Water it well and put pol in
stems of his pachysandra. ties sunny window,
it into a knot and plants the
I keep the pol in a shallow
stem in loose, moistened soil, dish so it yets plenty of water
He says that the knot hastens In a month the p i t ' w i l l crack
and assures rooting.
open at the top and w i t h i n a
lias anyone found this to be few days thc sprout will apeffective and preferable to ,,car ami it W JH have nice green
straight planting? Please write leaves.
and tell me.
\vhen you start the pit in waB. II. of Tafton: "We want to ter. it molds, turns black and
plant some bare rooled ma- rots."
pie trees in our backyard. Should ' —
' I they he slaked and wrapped? i ?*£?fg^JP'fWp,?
i 'Trunks arc only 2 inches ac- :
ross.
Yes, I'd stake, the Irers to
prevent wind damage. Drive a
stake, S to ID inches from the
tree, on the side from which
SCOUT RECRUITING D I N N E R — Boy Scout Jeff
Fehl, extreme left, was the main speaker at the RonH>n-sport sored Scout recruiting dinner. The Honson
Corp. of Delaware \Valer t!ap also donates money to
Vo» hdi-cn'l heard anything
promote area scouting. Olhers (L Io FJ) are the Tier.
Joseph Tropartsky of the Delaware Water Gap Presbyterian Church; Henry Kulp. chairman; John Pentz,
yd on II , l'U-r\\I . . . Lnlil
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Question Box
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Effort
greens. Flowers come in many
colors, pink, purple, red a n d
while. Next spring why n o I
give this annual some space
in your plantings.
1'each Pits: What will hap
l>en if you plant peach pits?
Will the fruit be as good as
that from the mother tree? Ordinarily, fruit from a tree start
ed from a peach pit will be
more or less wild.
I know this isn't always the
case, night now a good many
readers of this department have
l»ach trees which came up vo
lunlaiily from a pit cast out
after a canning job, and Ihey
tell us that the fruit is as good
as any you can buy. However,
it doesn't always wort t h a i
way.
Quite often the fruit from a
wild pil is small, hard and more
or less hitler. Nurseryman av
oid this by starting their peach
trees from seed (to get an un
derslock for budding).
Tlic bud frqm a cultivated va
riety is budded on to the peach
pit seedling. Afler that, the lop
of the seedling is cut off and
the wild seedling continues to
nurse and feed the bud.
If you want to start a peach
tree from a pit, nothing's any
simpler, .lust plant the pit in
the ground and next spring
you'll have a nice husky seed
ling.
I wouldn't take a chance on
it bearing edible fruit, howevei
Teach trees are inexpensive and
il takes ju.sl n,<; much time Io
nurse a wild one along as it
docs a cultivated one, so why
not wait and buy one from
your nursery.
Green Thumb Note: This is a
fine tip. Friends, if you ha v e
more tips please pass t h e m
along so fellow gardeners can
.share your experience.
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