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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 June
Wall fruits need water at the roots, except in the case of apricots, which appreciate dry conditions.
Cut out from apricots, peaches and nectarines breast wood.
Syringe the leaves morning and evening with insecticide to keep off insect pests.
Protect cherries and other wall fruits, and also strawberries as they begin to ripen by the use of fish netting.
Gooseberries should be thinned out, and only a few of the choicest fruits left on each bush.
Strawberry plants are at their best the first or second season according to the time of planting.
A good plan is to remake a third of the strawberry plantation yearly, pegging down one or two of the best
runners from each plant. Pot them in 3 in. pots later.
The site of the early potato crop is a good place for a new strawberry patch.
Loganberries appreciate a mulch of manure round the roots. They
need plenty of moisture, and repay generous feeding.
All large trees require mulching.
Remove superfluous growths, and over-vigorous shoots cut back.
Heavily-laden trees will need support.
Watch for green-fiy and spray immediately it appears.
Young side shoots of red and white currant bushes must be pinched back.
All surplus and weak raspberry canes should be pulled out.
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| Vegetable Jobs in June
Sow first early peas, i.e., varieties which mature rapidly. They will be harvested when the earlier sown peas are over.
Cut no more asparagus after the middle of this month.
Plant out celery. Celery is a marsh plant and needs manure in the soil to retain water.
Radishes and lettuces can be planted between the celery trenches.
Plant out tomatoes against a south wall or fence.
Plant out ridge-cucumbers on a sunny bank.
Plant vegetable marrows; they are useful smother plants for untidy corners.
Plant Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflowers, kale and savoys between rows of early peas, or in their place when the
crop has been gathered.
Plant ce!eriac; this is an excellent crop on soils where cultivation of celery is difficult.
Dress seakale with salt and shallots with nitrate of soda.
Vegetable marrows planted last month should be "stopped."
Sow turnips in shallow drills 1ft. apart. A shady bed is desirable.
Sow seeds of endive now, on a firm bed of good rich soil.
Break a leaf over each cauliflower head to shade it.
Potatoes may still be earthed up.
Stake runner beans.
Onions should be fed with nitrate of soda. |
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