... DIG FOR VICTORY. GARDEN NOTES. The recent rain ban been very vveleome; it was badly needed. Oont:nue to plant all crops as ground becomes available. If the ground dry iit is best to puddle'' them, that max together soil and waiter consistency of mud ...

... DIG FOR VICTORY GARDEN NOTES. As ground becomes Vacant prepare crops for winter use. Plant cabbage, savoys, in rows 15-in. apart, allowing one foot between each plant. Plant Brussels sprouts, if thi has not already been done, in rows not less than two ...

... DIG FOR VICTORY GARDEN NOTES. The earliest sown Spring cabbage will now be ready for planting out, and ground which carried the potato crop is excellent for Spring cabbage. Clean the ground of weeds, and if it is not too tr-odden down they may be planted ...

... DIG FOR VICTORY GARDEN NOTES Onions. will benefit the tops are bent over, that is if thev are burning yellow in the tops. There seems *o be a lot ot onion mndew around this season, one reason for the foliage turning yellow so early. There is not much ...

... DIG FOR VICTORY GARDEN NOTES. Keep the soil stirred frequently between such crops as the autumn-sown onions and late sowings of lettuce, radish, spinach, etc. Thin the spinach and late sowings of turnips. Transplant many of the lettuce ...

... DIG FOR VICTORY GARDEN NOTES. Autumn is the time for retrospect in the garden; the time when we should take notes of our failures and mistakes, and resolve to correct them in the coming season, for autumn is the end of tAe gardeners' year. Of the common ...

... DIG FOR VICTORY GARDEN NOTES. Continue to plant all winter green crops on vacant ground. Keep a sharp look-out for the caterpillars the cabbage butterfly. Searcn for the clusters of eggs usually found on the under side of the leaves, and destroy them ...

... little too early to dig ground yet for spring panting, as by the time spring arrives it will probably be grown over with weeds. I find it bet' er skim, or shallow dig weeds in /Imjvv, . and later on to give the ground final deep digging, inenrporatng anv ...

... DIG FOR VICTORY GARDEN NOTES. SEED SAVING. —Although this is a practice which in normal times is best left to the seed firms who specialise in this particular branch of gardening, under present conditions it is, I think, of the utmost importance that ...

... DIG FOR VICTORY. These notes are intended for those who are manning the garden front. you have a square yard of gardeij, cultivate it, and produce the maximum of food, possib^; remember, every meal you produce from your garden is a blow struck against ...

... DIG FOR VICTORY HOME-PRODUCING PATTERN Our American allies have been warned about their vegetable supplies by their Secretary for Agriculture, Mr. Claude Wickard. * It will b eadvisable, lie said, 'to have vegetables grown near to the centres where ...

... DIG FOR VICTORY GARDEN NOTES i All late potatoes should have been lifted by now; if this has not been done, tl.ii3y should lilted witiiou delay, especially if they were attacked by blight, as this diJease spreads quickly through the tubers. Ear h up leeks ...