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Fall can be busy time in garden

AFTER MANY years of gardening and teaching home
gardening and landscaping, I am pleased to be asked by the
North Shore News to write a regular garden column.

In these columns 1 will share my
experience and ideas with you.

I hope to encourage beginning
gardeners to become more familiar
with the world of horticulture, the
fastest growing leisure activity in
North America.

_This past suramer, or should J
call it ‘‘warmer season,’’ has not
been a great one for North Shore
gardeners.

Many of the plants that require

higher temperatures did not per-
form or were so fate maturing that
the results were poor.

My tomatoes, like most on the
North Shore, suffered from blight,
a fungus disease that runs ram-
pant with the cool, damp condi-
tions that we have experienced.

If your plants were under caves
or ina dry sheltered area they

. may have escaped the disease.
“; - Tomato stalks and fruit that are
turning black should be pulled up
‘and put in the garbage can.
_-. Be sure to clean up all fruit,
leaves and debris thay may be on
the ground. This will prevent

"CARTER WRITING gardening
advice for North Shore News
‘readers -for the past seven
years, Geoff Tobiasson has
moved on to greener gardens.
Tobiasson’s Over the Garden
Gate ran on the front page of
the News’ Friday- Home and

‘The West Vancouver
_, landscape consultant has

Now's tl

By Roy Jonsson
Contributing Writer

future contamination.

Next spring you should plant
your tomato crop in another area
and hope for a drier summer.

For many gardeners this may
seem like the end of the season
and the time to hang up the tocls
for the year. Hold on — your
work as a gardener is far from
over.

The fall season can be a busy
time. Here are a few suggestions
of things to do that will help
prepare your garden for the com-
ing seasons.

@ Plant some hardy bulbs that
will give your spring garden a
splash of early color.

@® Re-seed, renovate or top-
dress a lawn that has become
weed-infested or damaged over
the growing season.

This might also be the time to

See Early page 16

decided to stop writing for the
News so he can concentrate on

other projects.

Taking his place on the front
of the Home and Garden sec-
tion will be a variety of items
including articles by Roy
Jonsson on gardening and
stories by interior design con-
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NEWS photo Paul McGrath

NORTH VANCOUVER gardener Demetre Metalos shows cf his bumper crop of large tomatoes.
Metaios managed to grow this bountiful yield (plus plenty oy cherry tomatoes as well) despite the
cool, damp conditions that we experienced for much of the summer of '93.

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