Gardening Tools Your Garden Week by Week

CAUTION!

The notes on the following pages list the jobs which should be done throughout the year in order to take proper care of what is growing, and as a reminder of what has to be done to prepare for future benefits. The work has been grouped under the headings of each week of each month, but these dates must be used only for general guidance and modified by prevailing conditions in varying locations.

There are three main variables which must be considered when planning the work for the week in your own specific plot—the weather, the location, and the type of soil. Most residents will agree that the weather of the south coast and islands of B.C. is extremely hard to predict.

Those who have moved here from climates which have definite seasons of Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter are in for a big surprise! At Christmas time it can be shirt-sleeve weather with roses in bloom, a howling gale with floods of rain, or possibly ten degrees of frost and a foot of snow. Similarly, the summer may consist of warmth and sunshine from April to November; or rain, overcast, winds and cool temperatures which are the despair of the gardener hoping to ripen fruit and vegetables.




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December 4, 2008