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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 May
Apricots, peaches and nectarines grown on walls need thinning. The
number of fruits left depend on the strength of the tree. Generally it
is best to leave one fruit to each sq. yd. of wall.
Watch for the magpie moth or gooseberry sawfly, and if seen, dust
the bushes at once with Hellebore Powder, or spray with lead arsenate.
Dress strawberries with superphosphate of lime.
Place clean straw or long strawy manure between strawberry plants
to keep the fruit clean. Remove runners not required for making young
plants.
All fruit trees on dry ground appreciate a mulch of manure round the roots.
Morello cherries can be disbudded if needed.
Raspberry suckers should be thinned out. Only enough to replace
the old canes should be left, unless new plantations are wanted.
Thin gooseberries, leaving the best fruits to ripen for dessert.
Remove grease-bands from standard trees.
Commence summer pruning.
It is best to spray raspberries weekly or more often, while the flowers
are opening, to prevent the appearance of maggots.
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| Vegetable Jobs in May
Keep a look out still for the Colorado Beetle on potatoes.
Make a further sowing of broad beans if specially desired.
Seedling cabbages raised in boxes in a cold frame are ready for planting out. Heavily-manured ground is best.
Hoe frequently during the hot weather.
Asparagus seedlings need to be thinned. Leave the plants 1ft. apart. Keep the permanent beds free from weeds.
Globe beet sown in the frames should be thinned out to 8 in. apart.
Sow the outdoor main crop of beet. Thin seedlings and hoe between the rows, drawing the soil up against the seedlings
to protect them. Those in specially prepared holes should be reduced to three plants at each station, and finally to one,
which should be as near the centre as possible.
Plant out the broccoli seedlings in well-prepared soil; make a further sowing in the frame.
Make a further plantation of Brussels sprouts.
Sow cardoons in trenches prepared as for celery. They need plenty of water.
Earth up potatoes as necessary.
Carrots sown in January and February should be thinned, and the thinnings used in soups and salads.
Those sown in the open should be thinned to 8 in. apart.
Sow cauliflowers in a frame, and keep the bed well watered. Give dusting of soot occasionally.
Plant out seedlings as they are ready.
All established plants on the plot should be fed liberally with liquid manure and mulched with long stable litter.
Transplant celery.
Sow lettuce for succession. Thin out the seedlings and use them for planting between tall crops.
Sow peas during this month for use in late summer.
Make frequent sowings of turnips, and cover them with grass clippings to discourage the turnip fly.
Sow seeds of ornamental gourds and pumpkins outdoors. |
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