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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1954
Page
8
The column offers houseplant guidance on watering, light, and nutrition for philodendrons and rubber plants, warns against overwatering and syringing, and suggests repotting and plant food to prevent yellowing. It also covers lawn moss control with nitrogen and ammonium sulfate, mulch options, and common crabgrass chemical cautions.
The damp gate crashers invade homes barns and tool sheds for warmth. They pose little threat to rugs furniture or the premises though they are easily controlled by common household fly sprays. Locust leaf miner is the most troublesome of the insects listed including elm leaf willow leaf beetles and box elder bug.
Garden guidance urges starting next year’s fruit and vegetable setup now. Paper White narcissus bulbs can be grown in bowls indoors for Christmas, with careful preparation and proper soil. The article warns against delays due to high costs and stresses soil readiness and temperature control for strong bulb growth.
Gardener Hadyn S Pearson outlines trenching soil, drainage, and mulching for a durable perennial border. He stresses loam fill, fall mulching, and cover crops to improve organic matter, plus watering needs and lightbulb forcing methods for winter bloom.
Botrytis blight kills peony buds with brown drying flowers. Cut stalks at ground, burn them, avoid compost. Spray with Bordeaux mixture and use Fermate Capitan or Bordeaux fungicides. Also tips on borers in mountain ash and russet leaves from sawflies. For raspberries, feed in spring with nitrate of soda or ammonium nitrate, per-plant rates. avoid spring fertilizer near roots.
A garden note advises fall planting of deciduous shrubs to gain faster establishment and color. It lists exceptions for spring planting and suggests using overgrown foundation shrubs as landscape features. Guidance covers soil prep, digging holes wider and deeper, mixing in organic matter, and watering after planting.
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