What To Do in the Vegetable Garden This Month
Summary of operations for the month (until the middle of February). ? SEEDS TO SOW. Spring cabbages, lettuce (allow to mature without transplanting), spinach, silver beet and carrots. SEEDLINGS TO TRANSPLANT. Savoy cabbage, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, leeks aL-’-and celery. ’ . . v .. : ■ SPECIAL NOTES FOR WARM DISTRICTS. i Continue sowings of dwarf beans for late cropping, and sow turnips and swedes. .. ' v GENERAL WORK. Spray for potato and tomato blight;. ' Use derris dust to control white butterfly. j Water well when necessary, and maintain a surface mulch to conserve moisture and destroy weeds. Make this cultivation shallow where crops are approaching maturity. Dig under any harvested crops, such as peas and beans, but burn potato haulms and cabbage and cauliflower stumps promptly. Tie up and prune outdoor tomatoes. Sow a cover crop on any ground that is not being used for cropping. Harvest onions as they mature (see last month’s notes). y
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 60, Issue 1, 15 January 1940, Page 61
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