FARM, GARDEN AND ORCHARD NOTES.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume XV, 24 April 1931, Page 1

FARM, GARDEN AND ORCHARD NOTES.

APRIL. KITCHEN GARDEN. Continue to plant cabbage, savory and lettuce for succession. Tie up a few endive and lettuce every fortnight to blanch. Mustard, cress, radishes, and prickly spinach sow according to requirements. Carrots and turnips, sow for winter and spring use. Sow cabbage and cauliflower. Gi\e a liberal supply of manure water to celery previous to moulding up. Mould up cabbage, cauliflower, leeks, etc. Attend to gathering fruit of egg plants and chilies. Pumpkins and pie melons, gather and store away in a dry, airy place. Clear away the old vines, and have the ground thoroughly dug or trenched, if necessary, and manured in readiness for cropping. Attend to gathering all crops as they come to maturity, especially onions and late planted potatoes. Clear away all rubbish, as it not only looks unsightly but forms a harbour for insects. Dig and trench all vacant ground. Sow with oats or mustard any land not intended for cropping until spring. Sow parsley this month. FLOWER GARDEN. All annuals past flowering should be cleared off. Sow a few hardy kinds for early flowering. Lift layers of carnations, and plant either in a bed together or where intended to remain. Plant out antirrhinums, pansies, penstenions, etc. Plant sweet peas, anemones, hyacinths, irises, narcissi, tulips, crocuses, etc., for early flowering. The foliage of all perennial plants should be cut away as it decays, and all plants ought to be marked or labelled to indicate their whereabouts. Spaces will be left through lifting tender plants, and decay of others, a few hyacinths, tulips, ixias, etc., can be put in to fill their places, and they in turn can be removed when done flowering to make room for the border plants of any season. Let the border have a good dressing of manure, and dig or trench it in at the same time. See that the whereabouts of all summer bulbs and tubers is properly marked. FARM. Finish sowing all grasses as early as possible in the month. This is' a good month to sow Algerian oats, two bushels of seed to the acre, sown now will give good results, and will allow being fed off once or twice before shutting for crop. Then oats may be sown from now up till September, Ewes put to rams this month will lamb in September. Lift all potatoes, and if not sold immediately put into, good pits. Now that the blight is here, it is advisable to keep the bags for a short time, and repick before pitting. Clean but drains and water ccuises.