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YOUR GARDEN Humus Required In Healthy Soul Fortunate is the gardener who starts with perfect soil. Such finds are rare, especially where the sub-soil from the basement of the new house has. been dumped over the lot. Good gar- den soil, however, is not diffi- cult to make, although it does take a bit of time. Even the hardest clay however, can be opened up and made rich and friable as the experts say, and the poorest and driest sand can be improved even more easily. For both types, clay or sand, the same general treatment is necessary. We must add humus, This is simply vegetable ma- terial like manure, grass and weed clippings, straw, peat moss, leaves, compost or any- thing else including kitchen gar- bage that will rot. Dug in well this will soon open up clay or bind sand and make it more retentive of moisture. Regular cultivation, too will help. It lets in air and breaks up the heavy lumps. But the main thing is to dig in all the vegetable ma- terial or humus we can get our hands on. Nothing should be thrown away or burned that will rot down and mix with the soil. For heavy soil, tile drainage, either surface or tile, will help immensely and also the applica- tion of special soil conditioners. A few loads of sand or even ashes in the small garden will prove a short - cut in soil hand- ling. FOLLOW PATTERN Even in informal clump plant- ing in flowers and borders, it is well to follow some regular pat- tern of sowing, otherwise it may be difficult except for the ex- pert to distinguish the tiny plants we realy want and the unwanted weeds. It's a good idea to mark every place we sow the flower seed with a little Stake and also to sow the seed in a ring or tiny little rows or a Square, amy sort of a pattern that will be easily recognized after the seeds germinate. In this way it should be much easier to distinguish the good from the bad when growth first starts. With certain very slow germinating seed like aspara- gus, for example, the old experi- enced gardener will also sow some radish or something else that germinates quickly and thus mark the rows where the much later germinating seed will finally put in an appear- ance. Of course in the vegetable garden we should always sow in rows and the straighter these are the easier to identify the wanted plants when they first appear and the easier it is to cultivate. With some things such as corn, or potatoes, we don't need to wait for germination be- fore we cultivate but can do so right after planting if we don't Zo too deep. Tips On What Paint To Use Here's a quick run-down on the proper paint to use for any interior surface you may be beautifying: Plaster walls and ceilings -- any high quality interior flat rdboard -- seal with latex primer sealers, shellac Digging, hoeing and weeding are perfectly good healthy forms of exercise, but for those of us. who prefer or must take things easier there are all sorts of modern ways and means for}! taking the hardwork out of gar- dening. There are tractors large and small that will do all the cultivating. They only need someone to guide them. There are power mowers that make grass cutting child's play. There are dusters and sprayers that will keep the bugs and diseases in check. There are commercial fertilizers that we can sprinkle on and watch growth shoot ahead. There are strings for ty- ing up tomatoes, and flowers that we don't even have to tie, we just twist. There are chem- icals that will destroy any weed in the lawn or in the vegetable garden. We simply tell the seed store what weeds we are after and they will supply the chem- ical to do the trick without hurt- ing the grass, Or asparagus or whatever we are growing. There are automatic lawn sweepers, leaf rakers, sprinklers, There is even .a new chemical that will keep the grass more or less at a certain height without mow- ing. There are all sorts of fine tools, specially designed for pru- ning, cultivating, mulching, and a score of other jobs, or really what used to be jobs before = back savers were invent- In gardening as a hobby, one doesn't have to spend bores sums of money on or long hours ot practise. are no green fees, no join. With a few dollars and seeds, one can beauty out of what ren patch of soil, and that have a flavor incompara- ad superior to anything we can y. THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursday, April 25, 1963 ]3 Now At Marine Storage and Supply Limited OMG 17 --17 feet of new boating ideas The OMC 17 is presented In two models, Deluxe and Custom. They're the first 3-point hull runabouts ever designed for family boating. See them on display today in our showrooms... 200-1 Marine Storage & Supply Ltd. BROOKLIN, ONT. Open Evenings and Weekends 655-3641 LET'S MAKE A DATE TO DECORATE PAINTING INTERIOR -- EXTERIOR PAPERHANGING GY PTEXING -- COLOR SCHEMES Full Sunworthy Wall Murals | FREE ESTIMATES ANYWHERE | 4DODD & SOUTER FREE DELIVERY Decorating Contractors WHITBY a