Seed Guide 2007 pgs 01/41 - McKenzie Seeds

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G A R D E N I N G Clever Animal Tactics T I P S BEARS To keep birds from raiding your berry bushes, cut up orange A bright light on a motion sensor garbage bags into strips and tie keeps bears out of the compost them to your bushes. The orange pile. strips seem to confuse the birds Doug Pederson, Hagensborg BC. and they will leave your berries alone. BIRDS Helen Machura, Vilna AB. To keep the birds from eating your lettuce, strawberries, etc. put a string between two stakes over your rows and hang aluminum foil "bows" from the string. Dorothy McDonald, Assiniboia SK. I hang aluminum tart shell cups in my saskatoon trees to repel the birds. Dawn Holmlund, Wetaskiwin AB. To prevent our saskatoons from being eaten by robins, I sewed a tent made of nylon sheer. We used bricks to hold it down. It lets in light but not the birds. Anne Wilkie, Regina SK. Slip small rubber bands over corn ears to keep the birds from eating them. Mrs. L. Stanley, Gainsborough SK. For easy to make scarecrows that keep birds away, spray paint aluminum pie plates yellow. Hang them in the garden. You can also coat your foil pan scarecrows with cooking oil. The yellow sticky surface attracts and traps many damaging insects. Eileen Telawsky, New Sarepta AB. CATS Sprinkle used coffee grounds in your flower beds to prevent cats from digging in them. Audrie Seidl, Biggar SK. Surround your vegetable and flower garden with marigolds. It keeps cats from digging there and encourages bees for pollination. Joy Edmonds, Brandon MB. 159
G A R D E N I N G T I P S To keep cats and dogs out of your flowerbeds, sprinkle liberally with black pepper. The animals dislike the smell. Mary Highmoor, Glenavon SK. Lay wire decorative fence segments in your flowerbed to keep cats away. You can plant in between the wires and the cats will stay away because they do not like scratching against the wire bars. Janice Gattinger, Neudorf SK. To deter cats from digging in the garden or flowerbeds, sprinkle crushed chili pepper or any strong odoured spice on top of the soil around plants. Repeat after a rain or watering. Gale Biloski, Thunder Bay ON. COWS I live on a farm and the cows reach through the fence into the garden. Instead of leaving a two foot empty space, I plant marigolds along the fence. The cows will not reach over the marigolds to get at anything else. Kate Wittman, Vibank SK. DEER After years of deer feeding in my garden, I finally solved my problem simply, inexpensively and effectively. I pounded two, four foot wooden stakes into the ground fifty feet apart, centered along the south garden edge. Using "Birds Away" tape (one-half inch wide, shiny) I tied it to the tops of the stakes after twirling it. I repeated the same procedure 160 along the east edge of the garden. Even the slightest breezes created a continuous motion and whirring sound. I also left trailing tape (three feet long) at each stake, which the breezes could whip about. M. Simulik, Edmonton AB. To keep deer out of my garden, I hang Irish Spring hand soap on four foot stakes every twenty to thirty feet. Charles Levean, Whitney ON. To repel deer, save your old tea bags and coffee grounds. Scatter them around your plants, etc. Deer hate it and it is good for the soil. Margaret Engler, Qualicum Beach BC. We have not had any deer in our garden since we hung yellow plastic bags on posts in and around the garden. Boyd Nicolson, Shaunavon SK. DOGS Spread coffee grounds around the base of your fruit trees to discourage free running dogs. D.Watson, The Pas MB. MICE Cayenne pepper sprinkled around your trees and shrubs discourages mice from chewing on them over the winter. D. Gonet, Haines Junction YT. To deter mice we place natural blood meal on our asparagus bed. The mice stay away from the animal odor and blood meal is also a good fertilizer. Ingeborg Olund, Abbotsford BC. W W W . M C K E N Z I E S E E D S . C O M
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The actual date when you sow your s
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Advice is given throughout this pub
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Vermiculite is a natural, non-toxic
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survive in plant or soil debris. Th
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When seeds germinate, the first lea
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Planting the basket If using a mesh
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gourd with a small piece of stem at
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pot spacing the seeds out so that e
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Some plants can be sown in crevices
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Broccoli, green and white sprouting
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Chinese vegetables Interesting flav
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Onions can also be grown very succe
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Alyssum Royal Carpet 100016 A more
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— CINERARIA — Annual botanical:
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Set outside only when all danger of
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heavy rain. McKenzie has many varie
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Morning Glory Flying Saucers 120628
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flowers are edible and excellent fo
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— RAIN DAISY— Annual aka: Afica
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hold their colors superbly after dr
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ange. Soak seed for 24 hours prior
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shape, though the "bell" in Campanu
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— CLEMATIS — Perennial botanica
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dependable performance in many type
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dried flower displays. Fresh flower
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of falling water when permitted to
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V E G E T A B L E S M C K EV NE ZG
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GARDENING ACCESSORIES • 6" Copper
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ORGANIC SEEDS CERTIFIED ORGANIC BY/
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GUSTO ITALIA BASIL • BASILIC •
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Parsley Single Hardy Italian 101475
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Snow Pea Snowflake 101525 Stir Fry
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