Farm, Garden and Orchard Notes.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 19 March 1915, Page 1

Farm, Garden and Orchard Notes.

MARCH. KITCHEN GARDEN. Plant out cabbages and cauliflowers in showery weatherrunups, carrots, spinacn, parsnips and parsley may be sown this month. If the onion main crop has not yet been dried and stored, it should be done without delay. Now is the time to take in hand new plantations of strawberries, the runners if planted now, get wed e-uauhsued before winter comes on. P.aut iu rows two feet apart and one loot between tne plants. Keep digging ground as it falls vacant. Sow 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 establislied belore the Irosts set in. If any burning has still to be done start it at once. (This is the best time to sow grass seed in this district.) ORCHARD Gather fruit as it rips ns 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 swoeteii it for new trees, if you intend plaining in winter. Lime the grouud well that you intend planting as an orchard. Old strawberry plants that have borne heavily for three years can be destroyed, runners can be potted.

FLOWER GARDEN. I The garden will not require so much water as the weather is getting cooler continue to water dahlias and chrysantbemuns 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, collensia, etc., half hardy annuals such as impatient balsamina, cinerarias, celosia, cristata, mesembryantheraum crystallium, etc., may be planted this month.