Farm, Garden and Orchard Notes.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 5 March 1915, Page 1

Farm, Garden and Orchard Notes.

MARCH, KITCHEN GARDEN. Plant out cabbages and cauliflowers in showery weather. Turnips, carrots, spinaca, parsnips auii parsuy may bo sown this moutn. if tue onion main crop uas not' yet oeen drieu and storeu, it should be done wunout delay. Now is tne tune to talce in naiid new plantations of strawberries, the runners if planted now, get weil established before wiuier comes on. Riant iu rows two feet apart and one loot between the plants. Keep digging ground as it falls vacant, tiow oats or vetches to dig in later for green manure. It will greatly improve the ground for spring crops.

FARM. Harvest all potatoes. If pits are used, care must be taken that they are securely thatched against wet. Finish sowing forage and root crops. Grass seed should now be sown, that it may be thoroughly established belore tne irosts set in. If any burning has still to bo done start it at once. (This is tne best time to sow grass seed in this district.) ORCHARD Gather fruit as it ripens and hasten ripening by removing leaves from about the fruit but do not strip your trees, loosen the bands of last month's buds clear away and bury all leaves and remove suckers, trench and open up new ground to sweeten it for new trees, if you intend planting in winter. Lime the ground well that you intend planting as an orcnard. Old strawberry plants that have borne heavily for three years can be destroyed, runners can be potted. FLOWER GARDEN. . The garden will not require so much water as the weather is getting cooler continue to water dahlias and chrysanthemuns with liquid manure plant out pensternons, carnations, pinks, antirrhinums etc., Gather seeds as they ripen, in a light soil and warm aspect sow primula clarkia auricula, coilensia, etc., half hardy annuals such as impatiena balsamina, cinerarias, celosia, cristata, mesembryanthemum crystallium, etc., may be planted this month.