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Last planting

Date9/7/1988

Names

Beaty, Keith (photographer)

Dale, H. Fred (subject)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

Format

Picture

Notes

Original Toronto Star caption: Last planting: Star gardening columnist Fred Dale broadcasts lawn grass seed by hand over a scarified (raked) bare spots. Several days before he had fertilized the lawn and watered it in.

Subject

Portraits

Journalists

Gardeners

Medium

Photographs

Language

English

ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)

Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0041676F

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Planting daffodils. Daffodils look especially beautiful planted beside a river, where they will last for years

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Fred Dale brings in a tender amaryllis bulb that flowered last winter indoors, and then built up enough strength by summer by summer to flower again outdoors

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Fertilizing shrubs. A young purple smokebush gets the benefit of a broadcasting of a general garden fertilizer

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Pruning raspberries. Cutting out canes of raspberries at ground level is one of the rare fall pruning chores

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Digging to plant tree. Mid-October is a very good time to dig a hole to plant container-grown plants such as red oak

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Tilling the garden. Fred Dale tills his old garden to expose roots of weeds and seedling plants to the elements

9/2/1988

Summer's over: Star garden columnist Fred Dale brings amaryllis and Variegated Ficus Benjamina indoors

9/8/1988

Raking to sow grass. This is the best time to sow lawn grass seed, raking bare spots to open up earth before sowing

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