Summer GUIDE #1 June in the Garden


SANTA ROSA, CA, ~ Some- times I wish I was on a small, private island in the Caribbean, gentle breezes blowing through my hair, warm air hinting of delightful ocean essence, and evocative scents of richly-col- ored blooming tropical flowers. . .Like I said. . . sometimes. . . Honeysuckles and other sweet scented plants have been filling the air with delicious fragrances. Wind chimes continue to sing. All kinds of fruits are plump- ing up. Most gardens have been started and planted but here are a few tips about who likes being planted with who, companion planting and other natural ways to control garden pests.


Oddly enough cabbage


doesn’t like being planted next to broccoli or cauliflower, as well disliking tomatoes and strawberries.


Cabbage does


like being a neighbor to pota- toes, lettuce, spinach, cucum- ber, beans, onions, kale and cucumbers. Lettuce likes being planted next to most vegetables except broccoli.


Cucumbers


don’t like Aromatic herbs, po- tatoes or melons. Carrots like most everything except parsley, anise and dill. Peppers don’t like kohlrabi or beans and beans don’t like sun- flowers, onions, or garlic. Don’t forget marigolds. These little wonders repel numerous in- sects; add a cheerful brilliance to the garden and their pungent flower petals are also edible. They are perfect for sprinkling on salads and soups and other summer dishes.


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of all kinds. It’s the roots that need the water anyway. Keep your tools clean so you won’t spread diseases that way. Dip your pruners in alcohol before going on to the next project. Beneficial insects are eas- ily ordered on line and many nurseries carry them as well. Brachonoids, Chalcids, Ichneu- mom Wasps. You can entice these wasps by planting parsley, carrots, Queen Ann’s Lace and caraway. Members of the Um- belliferae


family attract these


ing, hungry aphids, squash bugs and striped pumpkin beetles. A garden surrounded by a color- ful profusion of nasturtiums is a sure way to keep damaging in- sects at bay. Their spicy leaves and flowers are edible and per- fect to scatter atop fresh green salads.


Hard to believe that every


year American homes use about 140 million pounds of pesti- cides on gardens, lawns and in their homes.


Actually home


owners use three times the amount of pesticides as farm- ers! Wildlife pest poisonings and water contamination from pesticides come from single family homes!


Consciences


people need to change that. . .one person at a time. Com- posting, top-dressing and using natural/organic products are the best way to create healthy soil and plants which are also more resistant to disease.


Spray your plants with sea- weed products especially sea- weed mulch, full of trace el- ements to encourage strong plants in the garden. Rotating crops keeps damaging insect pests down.


Drip irrigation is


great because you don’t have to wet the foliage and watering early in the morning allows the plants to dry preventing fungus


insects and a few plants should be allowed flower since it is the flowers that attract these benefi- cial insects. Ladybugs, lacewings, hover flies and praying mantis all have an appetite for bad bugs or their larvae. Daisies, tansy, yarrow, black-eyed susans and asters are all great to plant to at- tract good bugs. Milky spore are granules to spread on your lawn that causes a disease that kills the grubs in the soil yet harms nothing else. Multiplying over


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Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.


Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to make alcohol.


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The past-tense of the English word “dare” is “durst”.


Humans use a total of 72 different muscles in speech.


Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.


The most powerful earthquake to strike the United States occurred in 1811 in New Madrid, Missouri. The quake shook more than one million square miles, and was felt as far as 1,000 miles away.


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