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By Dick Wood,
Floriculture Instructor
Brownstown Vo-Tech
Sixth in Series
Spring is just around the corner
and, as you thumb through the
mailorder catalogues for seeds
and plants to put out this spring,
think of what you can do with
what you’ve got on hand.
Now is the time to make those
last cuttings of your favorite
geranium to increase your plant
numbers. A nice plant may be
acquired by cutting what are
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Thoughts
in Passing
called stem tip cuttings from
your large specimens.
The cutting should be from
four to six inches m length, free of
any disease and of good vigorous
growth. Take leaves and their
petiole off, learning two or three
at the very tip.
Insert the cutting into a very
coarse soil in a three inch clay pot
with more sand than soil, and
water it.
During the two or three week
rooting time, keep the soil moist
but not soaking wet.
After the roots are well under
way, fertilize with a soluble,
For full details call your nearest Beacon dealer or Beacon Advisor
balanced fertilizer. This way you
can have as many plants as you
desire.
Another item worth mentioning
as the days get longer and light
intensity increases is the care of
house plants. Thoughtful care
during this change of season is
appreciated by plants.
As light length and intensity
increases, so does growth. The
plant should be supplied with
more room and newer soil for
good root growth.
To give your favorite plant
more room, an increase in size of
pot is necessary. This is the
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Dick Wood
Floriculture Instructor
safest and easiest way to get
more room. One word of caution:
do not increase size of pot too
much for overwatering can cause
trouble. A good way to get your
plant out without injury is to turn
it upside down and knock the rim
Young Farmers Leadership
\ Training Conference, Cedar
\ Crest Middle School
* 7 p.m. Solanco Young Farmer
Parent-Son banquet, Middle
j) Octorora Presbyterian Church.
7-30 p.m. Central 4-H Tractor
Club meeting, Landis
Brothers, Inc , Manheim Pike,
Lancaster.
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of the pot gently on the edge of the
table holding your hand over the
top of the ball to catch it.
In the new pot, with small
stones or a piece of broken pot
covering the drainage hole, put in
new unused soil mix.
An inexpensive mix and one
with good drainage is one of equal
parts of soil, peatmoss and
coarse sand. Put the ball on top of
the layer and fill in around with
new soil mixture, leaving from
V 4” to V 4” from the nm of the pot
Water thoroughly, allow to drain
and water again.
These steps will allow your
house plant plenty of room for
growth during the spring and
summer.
Tip of the week: Too much
Tender Loving Care (TLC) for
your house plants can do more
harm than good.
Farm Calendar
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30 p.m Ephrata Young
Farmers milk marketing
course, “State and Federal
Regulations and Controls,” ag
department, Ephrata Area
High school.
30 p.m Penn Manor Young
Farmers monthly meeting,
“Calibrating a Corn Planter,”
vo-ag room, Penn Manor High
School.
Garden Spot Young Farmer
concrete course, vo-ag room,
Garden Spot High School
Lancaster County Farmers
Association board meeting,
Farm and Home Center
Pennsylvania Feed Industries
conference, Penn State
University, March 7 - 8.
4 30 pm. Lancaster County
Vocational Agriculture
Teachers Association meeting,
Pequea Valley High School;
6.15 p.m., dinner with Penn
field Corporation represen
tatives, Bird-in-Hand Motor
Inn.
Thursday, March 9
7:30 p.m. Poultry Educational
meeting, Farm and Home
Center.
Chester County Extension Ser
vice Clothing Construction
course, Paoli United Methodist
Church.
Friday, March 10
1 p.m. Pennsylvania Egg
Industry Phase II meeting,
Agriculture Building,
Harrisburg.
7 p.m Manheim Young Far
mers annual banquet,
Manheim Central High School.
7 p.m. Grassland FFA Annual
Parent-Son Banquet, Garden
Spot High School.
7 pm. Twin Valley FFA
Banquet, Twin Valley High
School cafeteria, Elverson
RD2.
7 p.m. Pennsylvania Egg
Marketing Association
meeting, Sheraton-Conestoga
Inn, Lancaster.
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