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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1955
Page
8
A home garden column notes a shift from geraniums to African violets as the preferred house plant. It cites a 50-person poll with 27 violet supporters and details on light, temperature, and soil needs for vigorous violets, including recommended light levels, night temperatures, and a porous soil mix of garden soil, sand, and peat moss.
A local Elyria offer invites residents at 2101 IMke Ave to bring a photo and a dime to help staff pick suitable plants for their homes. The program promises guidance on plant choice based on the presented images and home conditions.
Advice for planning a home vegetable garden to balance family needs with harvest timing. It covers sowing multiple sequential plantings, estimating servings per crop, and using space efficiently for twelve vegetables. Notes frost timing and staking to maximize grounds per tomato and cucumber crops.
A garden column discusses edible flowers using dandelion blossoms with a recipe, notes on washing and drying, plus advice on bluegrass varieties Merion and Kentucky Bluegrass, their drought tolerance and crowding behavior. It also covers tree peonies, botrytis blight risks, and preventive spraying with Bordeaux mixture or ferbam.
Readers discuss composting citrus peels and their impact on humus quality while sharing practical grafting, layering, and weed control methods. The column covers growing peonies, resowing lawns, weed suppression, hybrid tea roses care, patrolling pests, nicotine sulfate use, and a cucumber feeding trick.
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