ROUTINE GARDEN WORK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20024, 14 August 1928, Page 15

ROUTINE GARDEN WORK.

APPROACH OF SPRING.

With the approach of spring comes a host of jobs to which the gardener must attend. This month is the beginning of the busy period that is the lot of an enthusiastic gardener. Besides attending to crops at present in the ground, there are numerous other tasks to be tackled. For a week or two these will consist, Chiefly, of preparing the ground for the spring crops. Attention which may be given to plowing crops at the present time includes hoeing or forking the ground between the rows. This inter-cultivating shored be carried out when the ground is drying lip after rain in order that the greatest benefit may accrue from it. Potatoes are subject to frost-bite, and it is possible that early crops may have been cut down by the recent frosts in certain districts. If this is the case, the potatoes should be dug up and piaced tmder a tree until they sprout again. They may then be replanted. As a rule it is usually only the plants which have but recently appeared above the grouna that are cut right back by frost. For this reason it is a good P* an keep the voung plants earthed-up rather strictly, keeping them covered as long as possible where severe frosts have be„n known to occur. All potato crops, Jl° " fever, should be kept well eirthed-up throughout their development until the jnass of haulm renders this impossible.