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Carbon-Footprint-Reduction
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| Monthly jobs and seasonal harvest in the garden
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| Fruit Jobs in February
Prepare fish-netting or tiffany to stretch over peach trees to give ample protection.
Wall-fruits particularly need this protection.
Weed strawberries. Lightly fork the surface soil and dress with strawy manure.
Prune currants and gooseberries.
Tie and nail fruit trees grown on walls.
Peaches, nectarines, and Morello cherries flower on the young wood, and this should be
retained.
Cut away shoots which grow at right angles to the wall, and tie in
the side shoots as evenly as possible over the wall surface.
Train loganberries to fences, laying the stems horizontally.
Head back stocks for grafting. Scions should be taken from the
parent tree, and placed in the soil under a north wall.
Damsons and quinces are best pruned this month, where required.
Damsons make fine shelter screens for other fruits in the small home orchard.
They can be planted now.
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| Vegetable Jobs in February
Plant early potatoes.
Seeds sown this month must be protected during the late winter frosts.
Where seeds are sown in the open, cloches or rows of twigs will give protection.
Sow cabbage, early cauliflower, leeks and Brussels sprouts under glass, and broad beans and peas in the open.
Plant shallots now. Press the bulbs half-way into the soil 8 in. apart.
A dressing of an ounce of kainit to four square yards can be given to the soil before planting.
Sow tomatoes not later than the end of this month.
Prepare the soil of tomato beds by deep digging and allow it to settle a little before the plants are put in.
Cauliflowers and lettuces in frames should not be coddled.
Onions sown in boxes should be thinned if necessary.
Hotbeds made up last month need daily attention to keep up the heat.
Globe artichokes, vegetable marrows and tomatoes can be sown on them.
Prepare composts for seed-sowing. |
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