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FALL is the time to
plan for bright spring
flowers, and prepare
plants so they can shoot
up to meet the first rays
of spring. ‘
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Bay vour bulbs carly for
best selection, bur wait until
the ground has had a chance to
cool usually October or
November) before planting.
Don’t worry about planting

garden centre
owner Greg Porter, “Hf you can
work the ground, vou can still
plant bulbs.”

Plant bulbs in sunny: sites
with wood drainage, adding 3
handful of bonemeal to cach
square yard of soil. Bulbs can
be lett in the ground, bur every
four or five vears should be dug
up and replanted to separate

‘and space new bulbw that have

grown, To improve longeviny,

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> YOur garden now for spring
:

bulls plants should be fertilized
twice avear inthe mall and arter
blooming, with bone meal or
bulb rood.
As for your iawn, arter.rak
whith: coloured erisp,
IEAVESS RIVE VOUT ree
eapened Jawn a vitanun that
ropnd health.
for dawns, is
the mast oimportant and often
overlooked teeding,~
Porter,

“Fall feeding
tor Jawns is
the most
important and
often overlooked
feeding.”

fa tum, aback
(high percentage potash i tertil-

sr should be used as potash is

ey 16 moving carbohydrates
through the root system,
building disease re and
surviving winter stress.

Fertilizer consists of various
formulas of nitr + phos-
phorus and potash in’ regular
and time-release formulas to be
wed in different: geographical
areas and for different: purpos-
es,

“There is no one t
that fits all lawns,”

Testing, as
work out and resal
much more qui

For imple, in

the lawn about a week before
fertilizing to balance. the PH
level and get maximum effect

hould be applied to!

required after correcting the ©
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dollars.

Be cautious, warns Porter.
that the store or Lab is testing
for PH, nitrogen, phosphorus
and potash, or vou will only
know part of the prescription
and vour kiwis recovers ime
will oe much longer,

oot forget to. sprinkle 4
handfat of lawn tertilizer at the ~
base of bushes and) shruby. 2
wil improve disease resistance
dnd winter hardening. En areas
with. heavy snows. shru
bushes and voung trees will
benefit by being supported or
wrapped.

j Another way to create a |
lusher garden is to divide
perennials. Otten perennials
die off a litle in the centre,
making it easier to split. Larger
clumps will dri splitting
these plants, too) small will
result in’ stragely. plants ‘thar

a couple of vears to once
again become robust.
large, well-established

develop a healthy root system
betore winter.
vou spend crisp, sunny.

in the garden, don’r for-
get to. jump into the pile of
leaves raked up — even if you
need to invite some children to.
play so you don’s tcel silly.

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