GARDEN WORK FOR MAY.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 13411, 1 May 1909, Page 7

GARDEN WORK FOR MAY.

At Redcliffs, Sumner, '- "Bejrikoot© Valley, Lyttelton, Governor's Bay;' and-""-/----all warm spots on the Peainsuja/ bow^: 7.\ ings of peas should be mad©., . "Prepare/ the ground, well before sowing,* the soil is poor and! worked outl give'"'»' J&i good dressing of "bone dust in * where the peas are to i ; < Boees'doi best if set.:• i>ut< m tbJr'SS month/and wo strongly a<rm£ to get tnw work m hand as early as p&hfg&s Fruit trees which have lost their age _or are going; to rest shouldbe"\-V* planted* out any time nowv with the ';- best result*. -•" •..?:■.-- - ..-,.-•. ■ f." ,-?F-\-Zw Pruning fruit tree* sucih pears black currant* and gooseberri* sH? may be undertaken' any 'time now. " "^ karly vineries)must- be : pruned^at-' -'■■ once if early grapes are desired nexti season. • . T~" u ~ x Lifting and storing Dahlia / t«be» /?'/ must.be attended to as roonias the."' tops Apen off and decay. ' Do not !ea»* ■■--» them exposed to the frosts after lift- : mg, also see that: the Toots aTe tboi ""' roughly dry before setting them under S the greenhouse benches or in a shed for the winter. i V . ■'.'■•'"'"i Get'in cuttings, of all kinds of atirubs at an early date. This work &xnW?P. have been done in April to get tho beat 1 fv . All land that has been cropped ing summer and from whicli "the ctod - has been removed, should be well spaded and thrown uo rough and ex- - H posed to the frosts for th© winter ■■- :