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gardeners dike to dip them ma solution
aingicide and/or insecticide but f just
preter to give them a visual inspection.

Fuchsia plants can be saved by bury
ing then it a shallow trench beside the
house. Cover them with leaves or moss
and then a faver of soil, The whole bed
ein then be covered with a piece of phas-
tic to keep off the excess rain.

Potted plants that have hardy stalks
but tender roots can be buried, pot and
all, ina well drained area or placed ina
large waxed cardboard box trom the pro-
duce store and then filled with leaves for
insulation.

All the weed seeds that were blown in
and scattered arouad vour vard during
the summer have now germinated and
are putting down roots to get ready for a
spurt of growth next spring. With the aid
ofa hand fork while the soil is soft and
moist, the weeds can be hited root and
all and composted. Pulling the soft ones
such as chick weed just breaks the stems
off'at ground level and they immediately
begin to grow again. This is also true for

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NEWS photo Terry Peters
NOW is the best time to collect
slugs — before they hibernate.

many of the weed grasses. It is too late
to spray lawn weeds but many of the
creeping type weeds and dandelions can

be keptin cheek by manual weeding

Annual and perennial tower stalks can
aise deposit a great number of an anted
seeds ia garden. Leave one stalk to
generate a tew volunteer plants for nest
vear and cut down the rest to reditce
vour maintenance. Yucea flov er stalks are
generally cutoff during the summer but
most people do not realize che rosette of
leaves will only flower once. HF vou have
any old thower sraiks, bend them over
and cut the dosha stalk /root below the
leaves and remove die whole rosette.
Another sucker shoot will rake its place
and flower the following \car.

Raspberries and other eane-like plants
should be ticd up for the winter to keep
them from falling over with the snow,
Conifers and ouher evergreens are same-
times covered by falling leaves and need
to be cleaned off to allow: sutticiont light
and te prevent snow front piling up on
the branches.

In our haste to winterize our gardens
we often forget the area immediately
adjacent to our houses. Deciduous plants
such as dady ferns and other soft leaty
plants that have grown up against the
house during the summer should be
cleaned away. This will allow an air How
and the siding on a house to dry.

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