WORK FOR MAY
Flower Garden Frosts are now ahead of us. Protect all half-hardy shrubs with scrim or scrub. It’s the young wood that suffers and needs protection. Gladioli are now ready for lifting. Dry them off thoroughly before cleaning. Lift, divide and replant all herbaceous perennials. Sow seed of all hardy annuals. This is a good month in which to plant paeonies. There is still time to plant anemones. Roses and all flowering shrubs can be planted during the next three months. Begin preparing the sites they arc to occupy.
Vegetable Garden
Enrich rhubarb beds with old cow man. lire. Cut away the stems from asparagus bushes. Plant out raspberries, strawberries, black currants and gooseberries. All other fruits are best planted in June, but it’s not too early to commence preparing the soil for them. Make a sowing of onions for pulling in spring. Earth up leeks and celery, Plant cabbage, broad beans and cos lettuce.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 192, 10 May 1940, Page 14
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157WORK FOR MAY Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 192, 10 May 1940, Page 14
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