You and Your Garden

Northern Advocate, 21 June 1941, Page 9

You and Your Garden

Work Torn Should B® Vegetable Garden

Sowings made be made of broad beans, lettuce, early peas, and quick-maturing cauliflowers. Plant cabbage and cauliflower. Try a ..few early potatoes in a warm, well-drained position. Plant early sown onions. Onions like a firm soil, sunlight, good drainage, manure. Plant lettuce, shallots, potato onions and tree onions.

Prepare new asparagus beds. Hoe the strawberry bed. Manure with a blood and bone mixtui’e. Continue the pruning of fruit trees. Destroy mummified fruit by burning. A caustic soda solution, lib. in 10 gallons of water, makes one of the best sprays for moss on- trees. Plant fruit trees of all kinds.

Flower Plot

I am often asked what to plant in a clay soil. The popular bouvardia does better in clay soil than in volcanic. Roses, many perennial plants, and most bulbs also do well; but, of course, the soil must be well worked, and manure dug in. When moving a shrub or small tree from one part of the garden to another, tie scrim or sacking about the roots to keep them intact. Heavy plants may often be dragged to their new positions on a sack. There are many types of rock gardens, one of the most attractive being a bank that has just a slight slope. Rocks are embedded in the bank and cascade plants planted j between the rocks. |

Convolvulus Mauritanicus, lithospermum prostartum, nepeta, phlox, subulata, heeria, lobelia, helianthemum, mesembryanthemum, gypsophila repens are a few plants used for showering over rocks. They may be planted now. Continue to plant hardy shrubs, trees, rock-garden plants, perennials and hardy annuals. Most hardy hedge plants may be planted now. Tecoma is better left until the spring. Bouvardias may still be flowering. Do not cut back until the spring. Do not dig the ground, or plant, while the soil is very wet or sticky.