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IN spite of a cool and wet spring, many of the heat loving annuals are beginning to grow and bloom.

Unfortunately all the weeds and cool season plants are growing faster than ever.

Walking around your gar- den on a regular basis helps you keep in touch with these sud- den changes in growth pat- terns. Some of the overly vigor- ous plants will need to be cut back before they crowd their smaller neighbours. Others that grow too rank may have to be

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staked or tied in to prevent the top heavy blooms from collaps- ing. It is always best to try to hide the stake and string in the foliage or use one of the new type wire frames. Tomatoes, in particular, grow very rapidly

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with heat and moisture and are prone to fall over and snap off.

Many garden weeds are casy to pull in moist soil but become harder to remove as the soil dries out. Pulling one weed before it goes to seed is better than pulling a hundred or more after it goes to seed. Some of the low creeping weeds are adapted to breaking at the soil line when pulled. The only way to beat chickweed and oxalis (a small clover like plant with pur- ple-green leaves and yellow flowers) is to lift the soil with a fork and shake the roots free with the leaves. Weeds can also

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be host plants for other diseases and insects that affect garden plants.

In spite of all the rain in the early part of the summer, the moisture levels can drop quite quickly once the sunny weather arrives. Check the soil moisture by digging a small hole in sev- eral places around the garden. Areas around large trees and close to the house will be the first to dry out. Add an inch of water in the early morning.

Baskets, tubs and containers that have been sitting out in the rain during May and June have had much of their fertilizer

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leached = out and will need a regular application of liquid fertiliz- er to keep the plants flower- ing. Use regu- lar Jiquid 20.20.20 or for better blooms = try 15.20.15 and apply at quar- ter strength cach week. Both flowers in baskets and in the garden should” be dead-headed regularly to achieve the maximum number of blooms.

Most hedges and ground covers thrive in cool, wet weather and have put on tremendous growth during the jate spring and = summer. Cuiting the growth back in the next few weeks will give the new growth time to harden off before the cold weather starts in the fall. Non-flowering tree branches can be cut back by a third and water sprouts and sucker shoots removed alto- gether. Vines such as wisteria

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can be cut back by a half. The new growth on grape vines can be cut hack to two nodes beyond the last blossom — or bunch of pes. Normally I would remove the old fruiting canes from the raspberries at the end of July but this year the fruit is only beginning to

ONE of your July gar- ripen. Cut the dening jobs should be to o cut back vines.

id brown canes as low to the ground as possible when you do your last picking. Ever bearing plants are best pruned in the spring.

The unseasonably wet weather gave many creeping weeds a chance to invade the lawns. Lawn fun; such as Red Thread also spread through turf areas because of the mild and wet weather. The grass can be sprayed with the

ngicide Daconil but the best treatment and preventative measure “is to fertilize with a high nitrogen fertilizer.

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