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Ministry of Agriculture Allotment &
Garden Guide
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VOL. 1 No. 1
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JANUARY - 1945
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January 1945
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In
this new series of monthly "Guides" we are out to help you to get better
results from your vegetable plot and your fruit garden. Every month we shall
try to do three things : first, we shall remind you of the things that ought
to have been done, but may not have been possible because of the weather or
for some other reason ; secondly, we shall deal with gardening operations
for the month; thirdly, we shall look ahead a month or two and remind
you of what you need to do in readiness. For more
detailed week by week information you would do well to take in one of the
weekly gardening journals, as soon as the supply situation permits. And your
daily or weekly newspaper probably runs a gardening feature that would be
helpful to you.
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Get ready for
OUTDOOR WORK |
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January is generally a fairly quiet time in
the garden. But you need to push on with your digging and manuring whenever
the weather and the state of the land permit. You should also prune and
begin to spray your fruit trees, if you have not already done these jobs.
But January is a time when you should be thinking and planning, ordering
your seed potatoes, vegetable seeds, fertilizers and so on, and making sure
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begin gardening in real earnest
next month, or as soon as local conditions will let you.
Before coming to the various jobs of the month, there
is one really important matter that we should say something about––the
condition of your soil and the great need to keep it in good heart, for we
must not expect to go on producing satisfactory crops year after year unless
we restore to the soil what the plants take from it. We must also keep the
soil in "good tilth."next |
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