Farm, Garden and Orchard Notes.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 17 September 1915, Page 1

Farm, Garden and Orchard Notes.

SEPTEMBER. ! KITCHEN GARDEN. This is a very busy month and every spare moment must be taken advantage of. Almost all seeds may now be sown, asparagus, peas, carrots, turnips, parsnips, and all salad plants, beet and celery. Towaius the end of the month kidney and french beans may be got in, as there will be little chance ot sharp frosts after they are above ground. If the main crop of onions is not in yet. hurry with it, sow all kitchen herbs, thyme, sage, rue, marjoram parsley, etc. Make further sowings of cabbage and cauliflower and plant out former sowings as the plants get large enough. Get in early pot atoes, they will probably catch up to those put in last month. Keep slugs and weeds well under.

FARM. Oats and barley if not already in, should now be got in at once. Mangolds and carrots must now be sown, these are often sown broadcast, but drilling them is much preferable. By this means some fertilizer can be put in with the seed and ti»e horse harrow can be used between the rows. Towards the end of the month or beginning of next, sow maize and main crop of Potatoes. This is the time to sow drumhead cabbages as a field crop and there can be no better feed for milch cows to enrich the milk and improve : the quality and flavour of the j butter. ORCHARD. The earliest flowering trees ! such as almonds, nectarines, [ peaches, cherries, and plums will require attention, it is very often ' found that almonds, pears and apricot, will come out into a mass of bloom year after year but they will bear little or often no fruit, the cause of them bearing no fruit is that the trees are hide-bound and cannot bear, if

liiuc-uuuuu Clliu UcUlllUb UtJctr, II ! they do bear the fruit is hard, | woody and flavourless, a very I simple remedy is to slit the bark of the trees down each branch leading to the main stem, and to join them all into one at the main stem and carry it down to the ground, trees treated in this way will always bear well the slit opens and fresh bark is formed, and the trees are able ■to carry fruit. Such trees should be heavily pruned in July, all spraying except for the codlin moth should be stopped as the buds are beginning to burst now. FLOWER GARDEN. The planting of all shrubs should be over now, seeds are now sown, hardy annuals at the commencement of the month, and the more tender ones at the end of it, plant out all bulbs, propagate perennials from slips etc, plant out japonica, Virginian creeper, cobea scardens, lonicera, maurandia semperflorens, and ivy-leafed pelargoniums, you can now transplant rose cuttings, sow perennials and biennials, and transplant from pots or boxes.