Operations for July

Northern Advocate, 15 July 1939, Page 4 (Supplement)

Operations for July

THE VEGETABLE GARDEN » Plant a few second early potatoes. Use only sprouted seed. Give a sunny position and good drainage. Plant out onions. Plant cabbages, quick-maturing cauliflowers and lettuce; also shallots, potato onions and tree onions. Plant out rhubarb. Keep the bud tip at about soil level. Sow early peas, broad beans, lettuce and cabbage. Compost all leaves, grass cuttings, etc. They will come in for main spring plantings. Sow a soiling crop on a plot is likely to be idle for a month or two. Mustard is useful. Cultivate the strawberry bed. A dressing of blood and bone will benefit. Plant fruit trees. • Prune fruit trees and spray. Citrus planting may be left until next month. Sow tomato seed under glass for main crop planting in October. Citrus trees that have borne good crops will need manuring. Use the hoe as soon after rain as possible. A caustic soda wash, 2 lbs. to 10 gals, of water, is good for moss on trees. Spray now while the trees are out of 1 leaf. The spray is caustic, and should be kept away from the body and clothing. THE FLOWER GARDEN j All decaying leaves should be pulled away from Iceland poppy plants. Fork over the ground between the plants, to allow sunshine to reach the soil. Iceland poppies may still be planted. If possible a green crop and manure should be dug in, and the bed left for a few weeks before putting out the seedlings. These plants will grew quickly when the spring growth comes, and give good blooms. Stocks and nemesias may be planted in the same way as Iceland poppies. Nemesias are frost-tender. Both stocks and nemesias dislike an over-wet soil. Plant deciduous trees and shrubs; also hardy evergreens. If the ground is very.wet and sticky when the plants arrive, just cover the roots with soil and plant later. Giant delphiniums need' a good deep rich soil. The ground may be prepared now for planting out the seedlings next month. Continue to prune and plant roses. Put in cuttings of roses and other shrubs. Piant some of the large flowered climbing roses; also some of the polyantha varieties. | For best results with Gypsophila, give a good deep rich soil with lime added; also a sunny position. Plant now. i . _ _____ _ ____