Farm, Garden and Orchard Notes.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 26 March 1915, Page 1

Farm, Garden and Orchard Notes.

" MARCH. I KITCHEN GARDEN. ' Plant out cabbages and cauliflowers in showery weather. Turnips, carrots, spinach, parsnips and parsley may be sown this month. If the onion main crop has not yet oeen dried and stored, it should be done without delay. Now is tile ume to take | in band new plantations of strawberries, the runners if planted now, get well established before winter comes on. Plant in row* two feet apart and one loot betv. een the plants. Keep digging ground as it tubs Vacant. Sow oats or vetches to dig m 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 before the frosts 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 us 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, treuoh and open up uew ground to sweeten it for new trees, if you intend planting io winter. Lime the ground 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. 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, collensia, etc., half hardy annuals such as impatiens baisamina, cinerarias, celosia, cristata, mesembryanthemum crystallium, etc., may be planted tnis month.