April Vegetable Garden Plans
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April Vegetable Garden Plans
One
of the first tasks in your April Vegetable Garden Plans are to
get things started at the proper time, and without doubt the success of
your April Vegetable Garden Plans depends on the thoroughness
with which it is done.
The following gardening tips for operations, given month by month, will
serve not only as a timely reminder of things to be done, but as the
basis for such a check list. Preperation is very important in all
matters of your April Vegetable Garden Plans.
April Vegetable Garden Plans Calendar
April Vegetable Garden
Plans
Now the rush is on! Plan your
vegetable garden, and work your
plan. But do not yield to the temptation to plant more than you can look
out for later on. Remember it is much easier to sow seeds than to pull
out weeds.
The Frames. Air! water! and do not let the green plant-lice or the
white-fly get a ghost of a chance to start. Almost every day the glass
should be lifted entirely off. Care must be taken never to let the soil
or flats become dried out; toward the end of the month, if it is bright
and warm, begin watering towards evening instead of in early morning, as
you should have been doing through the winter. If proper attention is
given to ventilation and moisture, there will not be much danger from
the green plant-louse (aphis) and white-fly, but at the first sign of
one fight them to a finish. Use kerosene emulsion, tobacco dust, tobacco
preparations, or Aphine.
Seed sowing. Under glass: tomato, egg-plant and peppers. On sod: corn,
cucumbers, melons, early squash, lima beans.
Planting, outside. Onions, lettuce, beet, etc., if not put in last
month; also parsnip, salsify, parsley, wrinkled peas, endive. Toward the
end of this month (or first part of next) second plantings of these. Set
out plants of early cabbage (and the cabbage group) lettuce, onion sets,
sprouted potatoes, beets, etc.
In the
vegetable garden. Cultivate between rows of sowed crops; weed out
by hand just as soon as they are up enough to be seen; watch for
cutworms and root-maggots.
Fruit. Thin out all old blackberry canes, dewberry and raspberry canes
(if this was not done, as it should have been, directly after the
fruiting season last summer). Be ready for first spraying of early
blossoming trees. Set out new strawberry beds, small fruits and fruit
trees.
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