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Root holly, azalea, and camellia cuttings in a sand and peat moss mixture, set in a cool, shady location. Ivy and periwinkle can be rooted now to fill in any bare spots in your beds. Don’t allow cuttings to dryout.
• When it is necessary to transplant woody plants in hot weather, cover them with a sheet after they are planted. Dampen the sheet two or three times a day with the hose and transplants should suffer very little setback due to transpiration losses.
• Inner leaves and twigs of trees normally drop from lack of sunlight, but clusters of leaves attached to short twigs may drop as a result of insect or squirrel activity. Girdling insects make shallow, encircling depressions, while twigs broken by squirrels have diagonally severed ends.
• Japanese beetle traps should be placed at some distance from the plants they are meant to protect. When placed nearby, beetles lined by the trap will feed heavily on plants attractive to them which are in the vicinity of the trap.
Herbaeceous plants:
• Take cuttings of roses to root, 69 inches long. Using sharp knife, remove all but top 2-3 leaves, insert 46 inches in well-prepared soil in bright light out of the sun. Firm, water well, cover with inverted glass jar.
• Stop vine crops from taking over your garden or lawn by pinching off the fuzzy growing tips. This also directs the plant’s energy into ripening fruit rather than producing more vine.
• When your green beans have finished producing, mow the plants down with the mower set to cut 3-4 inches hihg, then water well and feed with manure tea. Plants will regrow and give you another harvest in about a month.
• Greening of potatoes is caused by not covering tubers that grow too big. Mound up the soil around the plant as it grows.
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