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Thursday,September 13, 2007

Vegtable Plot Essential Jobs

A list of jobs that need doing this month in your vegetable plot.

  • Cut down asparagus foliage once it starts to turn yellow, then weed the bed and give it a mulch of organic material.
  • Tidy up the rest of the vegetable plot, pulling up or cutting down harvested plants. Leave pea and bean roots in the soil where they will release nitrogen for the following crops.A neat plot is less likely to harbour diseases.
  • Lift main crop of potatoes preferably on a dry day.Leave on the soil surface for an hour to dry and then put in a paper sacks out of the light.
  • Plant garlic in the next month this will give a better crops than spring planting.
  • Plant autumn onion sets as soon as possible so they can product good roots before the winter weather arrives.
  • Cover outdoor tomatoes with clothes to speed up ripening.Remove canes and lay the plants on straw covering.
  • Pick and freeze black berries and autumn fruiting raspberries.
  • Plant strawberries now for a bumper crop next year.

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