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Page 4 GARIN EDITION - ORONO WEEKLY TIMES,.ÀPRILý It cou Id pay to have a garden Wi th higher food prices and a new interest among gar- dener in growing their own vegetables, gardening has boomed.But home-and even allotment gardeners might extend their production to include fruit. Small fruits are the most practical and they produce quite quickly. Strawberries set out this spring will bear a-good crop next year,as will rhubarb roots and rasbberry canes. 1For best growth, and production, they should have full sun and freedom from root competition of -other plants- I n restricted space, straw bernies may be grown in tiered rings or mounids. The- small berried kind that you, can grow fromn seed will make attractive low hedges and will bear somie fruit the first year. shade over an arbor- or a framework over a patio where they. form a natural roof. There are new seedlèss eating varieties such as Himrod, and new French hybrid types such asFoch for winemaking that dont have the foxy taste (,i native Niagara and Concord types. Among the fruit trees, peaches are perbaps the easiest if you keep an eye out for the peach tree borer. Peaches may he trained to a wall or fence facing south or west. Next easiest of the largerfruits are pears. While dwarf varieties may be train ed to walls, full size ones are goodgarden trees and require onlya, minimum spraying, but you should have two for pollination. A full size tree with several varieties grafted on the stem is a good way to ensure pollination in a small space. In general you need at leasttwo trees each of Ch erries and plums in order to geta crop. But sweet cherries are hardly worth fighting, the birds for. Sour cherries suchas Mont Support for tomato plant s A compact group of 3 or 4 plants are held nicely on a teepee of l"'x 1'1 stakes. morrency, make handsome smiallgarden trees with typ ical red cherry' bark,white flowers and small leaves thiat dont need rakinig. Thev are badly subject' to tent enter- 'pillars Fruit trees need pruning While spring's arrivai ber- -alds the beginning.of another growing season, it also un- veils the effects, of severe winter weather. Home gard- eners should make a thorough inspection of ail trees, shrubs ànd evergreens before spring growth begins. Lt a limb if broken, remove it back to the .next. main branch, advises Russ Gommre hortieulturist with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food. Large limbs should first be eut to within two feet of the trunk, then the stump eut flush to the trunk.- 'This method of cutting prevents the weight of the large lim-bs from stripping the bard as they faîll. Hand pruners can be used to, trim smail limbs, but a pruning'saw'should be uised for the larger ones. Fruit trees pruning should be carried out befôre spring growth begins. A good policy in pruning fruit trees is to take off no more than one-tenth of the branches; otherwise the tree will be weakened, advis- es Gomme. Remove the eree t growing 'suekers' - usuai lighter in color than other n gcrowýth . Weak limbs tha t grow downwards or towards thie tree's center should, also be prunied, as should short limbls ~ without buds. These usuallyý die ayo and become havenis for ins'ects anddias says Gomme.ý AIl openýi cuts oni trees should hie covered wih a layer of thle tree paint awvailable, at garden) centers and hlardwarestr. Durham Landscaping SE R.R. 1, HAMPTON (At Solima Phone 263-8128 PALWMGOER Lawn and ý l Garden Care Fertilizing 2ý7 Weed Controî Sprayý Fencing-Farrm and Ch Complete Landscaping Sod i ng Top SiN, Pantln erv ices ain Link Uri dfatonÀ . ... .... ............. . . Page 4 1