Issue Number 106 ~ June 14 , 2012 CHURCHILL & DISTRICT NEWS Est. 1966 Distributed Free Migrant Women Act - P 10 Schools - P 19-24 Sport - P 25-27 Last Chance Entries - P 18 LAST CHANCE! Entries Closing JUNE 22 Men’s Shed helps out The enthusiastic men from the Men’s Shed (part of the Churchill Neighbourhood Centre) have restored and mended the wooden play equipment at the Churchill pre School in the Intergenerational Hub. The staff and children are thrilled with their work and the generous use of their time to complete this task. They want to say a big THANK YOU to the men. So thank you to Steve Theo, Bert, Charlie and Leo (absent for the photo) Churchill & District News Proudly Supported By DAINBRIDGE NICHOLSON FINANCIAL SERVICES George Nicholson, B.Com,CA Chartered Accountant, Tax Agent and Financial Planner Phone: 5122 2033 Fax: 5122 2733 Email: [email protected] Page 2 - Churchill & District News - June 14, 2012 Churchill Gardening Group Some leafy green salad vegetables, such as lettuce, mizuna, cresses and radish to colour and pep up the green, can continue to be planted every few weeks, as needed for your household. You can also plant broad beans (until about October), cabbages, leeks, dwarf peas, rhubarb crowns, capsicums and brown onions. It is a good idea to start capsicum seeds under glass. If you set Churchill & District News is a community your seed tray with fresh manure at the bottom of the tray, then seed raising mix, then sow your seeds, this ensures you have heat at the newspaper staffed by volunteers. bottom for your seedlings and gives you an early start to the next The Team fruiting season. Try it and astound your next door neighbours! Team Leader/ Ruth Place Maybe you could give some thought to some early potatoes. Sow in June, July, in early frost areas. Obtain good seed potatoes, that is Secretary: small sound potatoes, preferably certified free of disease. In the Treasurer: Val Prokopiv meantime be preparing your potato patch. Work it over for a few Editors: Bea Stallbom, weeks and then at the end of June or so, in go the seeds and out comes Carol Scott delicious new potatoes ready to cook and eat, just oozing with butter Advertising: Ruth Place, Tracey Burr, and finely chopped parsley or chives, or both. Layout: Allan Larkin Rose and tree pruning time coming up There are three main rules to pruning and all other rules should Production: Carol Scott, Ruth Place, complement the main three. Allan Larkin, Val Prokopiv Rule 1: A tree of any type should be pruned to its natural habit of Time to prune your roses. Proof Readers: Ruth Place, growth. Olivia Jackson, Rule 2: Hard pruning stunts growth and light pruning invigorates Fruit buds are generally well developed, well rounded buds and Geraldine Larkin, growth. wood buds are usually thinner, more pointed, less rounded looking Carol Scott Rule 3: The terminal bud is the most vigorous bud on any lateral. buds. A lateral is an annual growth of new wood bearing wood and fruit Team Members: Peter Prokopiv, So principally, the object of pruning is to influence the growth buds. and shape of the tree to improve the quantity and quality of fruit and Wendy Brown, flowers. Expressed more simply: Charlie Rawlinson To improve size, colour and quality Webpage: Val Prokopiv To promote heavy and regular bearing www.cdnews.com.au To maintain tree to a healthy condition To be able to maintain the tree easily and safely. Contributions A kit of three tools is all that is needed to successfully prune most trees. The deadline for the submission of 1. A pair of conventional secateurs articles and advertisements for the 2. A pair of long or short handled loppers July 2012 edition is June 30, 2012 3. A good pruning saw. A good garden job to do at this time of the year is to examine and see if you find and deal with any gall wasps on all citrus trees. EDITORIAL Gall wasps are an Australian native wasp which damages citrus Articles for publication and Letters to the trees by depositing its eggs in parts of the new growth. The resulting Editor can be sent to: grub, tunnels its way within the branch causing galling or swelling, Churchill & District News restricting sap flow. Some of these galls can grow quite large. PO Box 234, Churchill, 3842 There is no chemical control that I know of. The only effective Or Email: [email protected] method of control is to cut the affected branch off a few centimetres below the gall and burn all the affected branches. Make sure all the All articles must be submitted by the 30th affected galls are removed by mid August or so. of each month for publication in the next Remember to rake or sweep up all the beautiful autumnal leaves issue. and recycle them into compost to return to your garden. Happy raking until next month. Articles can be left in our Drop Off Boxes Plant winter vegetables. 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