One of the worst pests is the bird. Particularly such so-called `friends' as thrushes, starlings and blackbirds. In small gardens it is inevitably necessary to cover the rows with fish-netting held up over the plants on wires stretched from posts 18 inches out of the ground. Some people put upturned jam jars over the top of each stake and then the fish-netting slides over much more easily.
In the first place it will help, of course, if the strawberries are planted in the highest part of the garden where the frozen air is able to flow down to a lower strata.
Spraying the plants with 95 per cent pure nicotine in water when the weather gets warm, in May, is useful if a thorough soaking is given, so as to wet the under surface of the leaves and the leaf stalks. Formula : 1 oz. nicotine in 10 gallons of water pro rata. It is quite a useful thing also when buying young plants to dip them in a solution of nicotine before planting out. Wear rubber gloves while the dipping process is taking place and be careful not to inhale the fumes.
The use of cloches or ganwicks is another method of protecting the blossoms and many is the strawberry that has been protected from frost damage by being planted behind a north wall.
The barrel should then be given a thorough soaking in Green Cuprinol and should be filled with the new no-soil potting compost through the holes so that the roots can be spread out before being firmed. In the top of the barrel, when it is full, plant another six plants. Thus in a barrel of the size for thirty good plants are needed.
Because strawberries are so subject to virus diseases it is tremendously important to buy strains of varieties which have been certified under the Ministry of Agriculture's Scheme. It is possible today to buy varieties like Cambridge Prizewinner, Cambridge Rearguard, Cambridge Vigour, Royal Sovereign and Talisman, with Special Stock Certificates. Numerous other varieties can be bought with Ministry of Agriculture A. Certificates. Buy hand-laid runners from reliable nurserymen. - 15266
In the first place it will help, of course, if the strawberries are planted in the highest part of the garden where the frozen air is able to flow down to a lower strata.
Spraying the plants with 95 per cent pure nicotine in water when the weather gets warm, in May, is useful if a thorough soaking is given, so as to wet the under surface of the leaves and the leaf stalks. Formula : 1 oz. nicotine in 10 gallons of water pro rata. It is quite a useful thing also when buying young plants to dip them in a solution of nicotine before planting out. Wear rubber gloves while the dipping process is taking place and be careful not to inhale the fumes.
The use of cloches or ganwicks is another method of protecting the blossoms and many is the strawberry that has been protected from frost damage by being planted behind a north wall.
The barrel should then be given a thorough soaking in Green Cuprinol and should be filled with the new no-soil potting compost through the holes so that the roots can be spread out before being firmed. In the top of the barrel, when it is full, plant another six plants. Thus in a barrel of the size for thirty good plants are needed.
Because strawberries are so subject to virus diseases it is tremendously important to buy strains of varieties which have been certified under the Ministry of Agriculture's Scheme. It is possible today to buy varieties like Cambridge Prizewinner, Cambridge Rearguard, Cambridge Vigour, Royal Sovereign and Talisman, with Special Stock Certificates. Numerous other varieties can be bought with Ministry of Agriculture A. Certificates. Buy hand-laid runners from reliable nurserymen. - 15266
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All fruit tree gardens are individual, both in the problems they gace and the way they are planned and planted.
