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The family has to part with him due to a sick child. They have to stay within a few minutes of the hospital and this is not a life for a dog to be constantly loaned to friends on short notice.
 

We want to be sure he goes to a loving home. It has taken the owners a few months to finally acknowledge they have to give him up.

 

Any help you can provide in connecting us with someone who might like to adopt Tyson would be wonderful.

 

Email Corry at:

M&M Mediation & Legal Services
70 Albert Street Oshawa
Tel.  905-448-4190
email: mandm.mediation@yahoo.ca

 

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SEPTEMBER  IN  THE  GARDEN
 
1.  Keep the garden neat and tidy.  With fall weather of cool damp nights and hot days still to come, plants are slowly starting to dwindle.  Prune as needed, deadhead  and pick off any dying leaves or branches.
 
2.  There is still time to plant trees, shrubs and perennials as they still have about 6 to 8 weeks to make root and become established.
 
3.  Control lawn weeds.
 
4.  Now is a great time to overseed your lawn or start a new lawn.
 
5.  Start bringing in tender plants, but check for bugs.  Perhaps a couple of sprays with soapy water will help.
 
6.  You can still sow vegetables -  lettuce, spinach, chard
 
7.  After the first frost, you can dig up tender bulbs -dahlias, cannas, gladiolas,etc. and store in a cool dark area
 
8.   S T O P -  fertilizing trees and shrubs to allow this year's
growth to harden off before winter arrives
 
9.  If your garden could use a punch of colour right now, you can plant winter pansies, flowering kale and cabbage, mums, asters and some late flowering perennials if you can still get them.
 
10. This is certainly the time to start planting those spring bulbs.
 
All spring bulbs need good drainage.  If you plant them in a swampy
soil they will soon fail.   Gardens that are shady now because of
large deciduous trees will probably be sunny enough in the spring to allow daffodils to flourish.
 
Tulips prefer more sun.  Tulips also are classified by their flowering
time- early spring- mid season - and late spring to early summer.
 
Wherever you purchase bulbs there will be information available as to colour, bloom time, height and what are good companions for them.
There are some that will take shade while others prefer more sun.  You just have to read all the infomation they provide.
 
Crocus and snowdrops are short and first to flower, so should be planted where they can be easily seen. Near walks and driveways.
Daffodils and tulips  with their greater flower size and height can be planted further back in the garden.
 
If you plant hyacinths and other fragrant bulbs, they would be great by walks, doorways, windows, so you can appreciate their scent.
 
Planting depth can vary.  Generally small bulbs are planted about 3 inches deep while larger ones 6 to 8 inches deep.  Small bulbs can be planted a couple of inches apart, while larger bulbs 4 to 8 inches apart. It depends on how full you want the garden to be.  One rule is to plant bulbs 3 times the depth of their size.
 
S I Z E  does matter.  Larger more expensive bulbs will bloom in the first year.  Cheaper smaller grades may take a couple of years to bloom.
 
And if you have a S Q U I R R E L   problem one way to handle it, is
to plant the bulbs in trenches .  Dig the  trench to the size and depth required, cover with chicken wire and blood meal and finally
soil.   If you find this too much to do, just try the bloodmeal.  Also
daffodils are more squirrel resistant than other bulbs.
 
Unless you have a lot of money, I would only purchase one or two types of bulbs - eg. yellow daffodils and red tulips.  That way I would be putting more of these two colours in the garden.  After next spring when you see your beautiful garden, you can then decide to add more of the same, or branch out into other colours or earlier or later bulbs.
Something that will compliment what you already have.
 
Bulb  Timing
 
MARCH -  snowdrops and crocus
 
APRIL - crocus, daffodils, hyacinths, species tulips
 
MAY  -  Daffodils, mid season tulips, lilacs and forsythia
 
JUNE - late tulips, allium, iris  and roses
 
It is also very important to let the foliage of the bulbs die down after blooming.  This foliage is making food for next years flowers.
 So planting your bulbs near shrubs or perennials that will cover this dying foliage is a good idea.  Also once that foliage has yellowed, it is okay to remove it.
 
I hope I haven't overloaded you with too much info.  But to me, you can never have too much.  Enjoy your fall garden as winter is just around the corner.
 
Till next time  IN THE GARDEN,

Charlie

Plant Expert & Newsletter Columnist