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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 October
Trench all land intended for fruit-growing and add lime in moderation.
Planting fruit trees. The fine roots should take hold of the soil before the cold months of winter.
Watch for signs of diseased trees. Canker should be cut right out and burnt.
Gooseberry and currant cuttings can be planted at any time now in sheltered positions.
New plantations of raspberries can be made from suckers detached
from old plants, planted 3 ft. apart each way.
Keep the soil hoed between the roots.
Apricots, cherries, currants and gooseberries should be pruned this month.
Cut out old fruit, leaves and the naked old wood of figs to make room for the new shoots.
Loganberry stems which have borne fruit should be cut to ground
level if not already done. Space out the new stems well in retying.
Strawberry runners should be removed from the plants.
Cut out all weak and useless canes from outdoor vines and shorten
the good ones to two or three buds from the base.
Untie wall fruits and wash the walls with soft soap, sulphur and
paraffin. Replace the fruits with fresh ties and nails.
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| Vegetable Jobs in October
Lift rhubarb crowns and force them under the greenhouse stages.
Earth up celery and leeks.
Corn salad and early peas, radishes and spinach, may still be sowed.
Lift and store horse radish.
When the fruits on outdoor tomatoes are ripe take the plants up and burn them.
Lift and store all roots except parsnips and Jerusalem artichokes.
Beet should have the leaves twisted – not cut – off.
Store carrots in sand, potatoes in clamps or in sacks under cover.
Some litter over the parsnip bed makes it possible to lift roots even if the ground becomes frosted.
Top-dress asparagus with 6 in. of well-rotted manure.
Plant out cabbage seedlings. Draw a little soil up round the stems to protect them.
Gather unripe tomatoes and bring them indoors.
Lift a few roots of mint, and grow under glass for winter.
Lift endive and plant it in a cold frame. Blanch as required, by placing a mat over the glass or by inverting a pot over
each plant.
Lettuces should be treated in the same way as endive, except that they should not be blanched.
Prick out parsley seedlings in rows 6 in. apart, in the cold frame if a winter supply is wanted. |
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