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good time to buy or transplant iris
for your flower garden. This will
give them time to become
reestablished before winter.
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Iris are easy to grow and require
a minimum of care. They will
tolerate poor soil as long as they
receive hill sunshine. Iris are also
very drought-resistant.
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The German, or bearded, iris
need a well drained location. The
beardless types, such as Japanese
and Siberian iris, grow well in
moist soil along a pond or stream;
they rarely need to be divided.
Plant your iris with the thick,
underground stem or rhizome,
partly exposed on the soil surface.
New roots will soon grow from the
underside of these rhizomes.
In dividing older iris clumps,
each “fan” of leaves with attached
rhizome will form a new plant. It
will usually take these plants about
two years to flower. Larger clumps
with several “fans” of leaves will
flower the next year.
Perennials and biennials are no
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more difficult to start from seed
than annuals—they just take
longer to develop. Perennial seeds
sown now, in late July or August,
will have ample time to grow into
small seedlings that will over
winter well and be excellent plants
by early next summer.
Easy perennials to start from
seed include columbine, foxglove,
dephinium, coral bells, shasta
daisy, violas, and pansies. Sow
seeds in pots or directly into the
ground in a shady part of the
garden.
Sweet Williams, foxglovers,
Canterbury bells, viola, and
pansies are biennial plants that
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can be grown from seed planted in
early August. Biennials are plants
that have a two-year life cycle and
will die after blooming next year.
Seed sown this time of the year
needs a little extra care to protect
it from the hot sun or drenching
thunderstorms. It can be sown in
flower pots with a mixture of equal
parts of garden soil, coarse sand,
and peat moss.
Place the pots in a sheltered
location, such as a coldframe or
sheltered area for the winter.
Early next spring they may be
transplanted to the garden where
they will flower.
Hanging baskets with cascades
of colorful flowers or foliage are
becoming more popular every
year. Many of them that were
bought in early May have grown
quite large by now and the root
area has become restricted.
If your hanging basket looks a
little stretchy and droopy it has
probably used up the plant
nutrients in the soil and is in need
of a doze of fertilizer. The best way
to fertilize plants is to apply a
diluted solution of soluble fer
tilizer. Flowering plants need a 5-
10-5 fertilizer and foliage plants
could use a 10-6-4 fertilizer. Plants
that are overgrown can be cut back
and reshaped for summer-long
beauty.
Tioga County Fair
WHITNEYVILLE The Tioga
County Fair, to be held at the
county fairgrounds in Whitneyville
Aug. 6 through 11, will feature
performances by The Mavericks, a
singing duo from central Penn
sylvania, and Dean McNett, a
popular round and square dance
band from Montgomery.
The Mavericks, also known as
Kay Lynn and Jamie Lee, will
perform country and sacred songs
Aug. 10 at 8 p.m. and Aug. 11 at 2
p.m.
The Dean McNett Band will
perform at the fairgrounds Aug. 9
at 8 p.m.
The fair opens Wednesday, Aug.
6 with the 4-H Roundup and closes
Aug. 11. Daily hours begin at 9
a.m.
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