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indoor plants Keep the house green all year By HOPE DEMPSEY Examiner Staff Reporter The gardening season no longer ends with the first severe rost Today plant lovers can garden all year round The only time element in volved is beating the frost says Examiner Garden Colum nist Jean Gable The first step is to bring in tender houseplants which might get frostbitten says Mrs Gable The second step is cleaning the pots They may be clay or plastic and must be thoroughly washed with detergent Next it is important to wash the plants to get rid of any disease or bugs always spray my plants after washing them says Mrs Gable use systemic spray which gets rid of any disease This helps keep disease away from other plants in the house You have to watch for little earwigs which are small in sects that get at plants and eat the roots says Mrs Gable W5 Gable uses Styrofoam cups when rooting slips In stead of soil she uses perlite or vermiculite which are sterile media but support the roots easily You must keep these damp says Mrs Gable The plants can get their nourish ment from the water if you use fertilizers Mrs Gable uses mostly soil in the rest of her gardening Im interested in earth says Mrs Gable There are various kinds of soil for dif ferent kinds of plants use sterilized soil with manure sandy soil or regular good garden soil For drainage she uses mainly small stones from the garden and occasionally clay pot chips used to just smash pot and use the chips for the bottom of my plants says Mrs Cable But theyre too expensive to day What plants people bring iii side for the winter is up to them says Mrs Gable It usually depends on the amount of light and space they have to work with The trend to day is hanging plants And fluorescent lighting is becom ing very big People buy small plants or use cuttings They buy fluorescent lights and can grow beautiful plants all year round You never know when youre going to get light in doors says Mrs Gable With fluorescent lighting you get as much light as you need and you can regulate it Fluorescent lights are luxury but if done properly system can be set up cheaply lf space is limited Mrs Gable suggests lishgardcns lf Children sent to court for the wrong reasons TORONTH itPI Many children are being sent to famlt ily court tor the wrong reasons and many of them receive grossly unfair treatment family court judge said Thurs day ludgc Durham of Bram pton told about too mental hcalth workers at child men talhealth conference that he estimates to of every five children he sees should not be in court find children brought into court because the community is Irustrated be said They bring the child to judgc and say losonictliing carly all the kids plead guilty say tK youre guilty and thats the end of my legal training The iudgc oucstionrsl ho judges should be expected to deal intelligently with the stacks oi pstllldlrtc reports that irrnc on llitll desks each Illltllilllfl underlining like mad as lm walking into court he said lts forcing us tiudgcst to perform way beyond our lim its and think thats grossly un fair to our children He said he does not blame childrens agencies for the problems but blames com munities at large London psychiatrist said fewer than half the children of poor deprived families grow up without emotional scars and ill nesses from their social and economic surroundings Dr Michael Rutter said chil dren who grow up mentally healthy should be studied in dc tail to learn what character ist ics have helped them Contraceptive for men still years off Short tiflt tint ItPi De velopment of contraceptive pill for men is unlikely within the next 15 years Dr Roger Short of the lnivcrsity of Edin burgh said Monday lr Short medical re searcher said one reason the pill for men is being developed so slowly is that it is much harr der to stop mans testes frotn producing ioo million sperm day than it is to stop woman from ovulating once month Several contraceptives for men are being tested but there is nothing ready to be put on the market he told meet ng hospital He said new methods of con traception that would decrease the number of female mcn strual periods would be wcl come Women today have about too monthly periods In lifetime compared with only eight or to in the life span of primitive woman he said because primi live Ulllll spcnt most of IIltll reproductive lite produi mg milk while the opposite is ruc now FASHIONS FINEST FABRICS AT lOW Mlll OUTlET PRICES these are used several dif ferent kinds of plants can be fit ted into one dish and placed on windowsills People have tendancy to over water their plants says Mrs Gable They kill their plants with kindness This is the number one plant killer There are no hard and fast rules for watering plants iii doors It depends on the humidi ty and heat of the house and type of plant Watering cans can be used as well as Sprayers Plants should only be watered when they need it Ferns are one type of plant that are good to spray says Mrs Gable Almost all plants like to be spraaycd but you have to have the proper facilities especially if you have lot of plants Washing the leaves with detergent is also good for plants Plants should never be watered at night says Mrs Gable Early in the morning is the best time At night there is chance of mildew set ting in Plant fertilizers are also im portant They contain three im portant nutrients vital to plants growth These are nitrogen potash However its important to know the amount of these nutrients each plant needs People overdo it with fer tilizers too says Mrs Gable Its natural to think little more is better than not enough but in the case of fertilizers this isntso Plants will do well if the right amount of fertilizer is us ed put little in everytimel water my plants In Toronto balcony garden ing is popular and there is garden cluh just for balcony gardens says Mrs Gable PEOPLES DECOR Today plants are part of peoples decor in their homes says Mrs Gable They make more people aware of 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