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BY KENNER P. LOVE
Extension Agent, ANR
Crop & Soil Sciences
The following are gardening tips for the month of April. For additional information on any of the subjects feel free to call the Extension Office at 675-3619.
• When apple trees are in full bloom, make a note on your calendar 150 days later to check for ripeness.
• If fruit trees are lacking pollinators nearby, cut bouquets of blossoms from good pollinators and place them in pails under blossoming trees. Make plans to plant pollinating varieties this fall.
• Thin young fruits of apples, pears and peaches to insure larger, healthier fruit. Thin within 25 days of the peak bloom, leaving four to six inches between fruit.
• In shaping young fruit trees, round hardwood toothpicks or clothes pins are very useful for the early and important job of limb spreading. Simply insert the toothpicks , between the trunk and branch to force the latter to grow outward at about a 60 degree angle rather than upright.
• In the Piedmont and ■ Mountain regions, this is the i time to set out cool weather vegetables such as broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce and onions. When the danger of frost has passed, transplant tomatoes, peppers and eggplant.
• Delay organic mulching to allow soil to warm deeply, but act before weeds become . established. | • Harden transplants of
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