Farm and Garden Calendar for June.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1659, 12 June 1875, Page 6 (Supplement)

Farm and Garden Calendar for June.

FFrom Reed & Brett's Almanac, 1875 ]

Flower Garden. —Guard all plants and seedlings against slugs, which can ho done by taking water in which potatoes may have been boiled, stirring in about half a teaspoonful of kerosene to the gallon, and thoroughly sprinkling it over the plants attacked, and in placea where they harbour, use lime water in a similar way, or well dmt over the whole place with [fresh lime, wood ashes, or soot ; late in Mie evening and early morning are the beet times for_ these operations. Take up dahlia 1 oots ; roll lawns to destroy worm casts, and examine newly planted pinks and carnations, refastening any that have been loosened by worms. Continue digging borders and complete alterations.

} (Kitchen and Fruit Garden.— Make another sowing of cauliflowers ; sow cabbage. Asparagua and sea-kale beds may now be planted ; trench deep, and use manure without stint, mixing it with the soil from top to bottom as the work proceeds—the manure will be greatly improved if mixed with decomposed seaweed. Plant early potatoes. Sow early peas land beans, lettuce, and salad herbs. Earth up celery and leeks where required. Plant rhubarb in rich deep soil. Look over apples and pears in the fruit room. Examine potatoes and kumeras stowed away, carefully removing everything in a state of decay. In season : —cabbage, cauliflower, celery, leeks onions, turnips, carrots, parsnips, &c. Vines and all kinds of fruit trees may be transplanted this month, in intervals of dry weather. Vines should now be pruned, and the young shoots cut down to one or two eyes. Stake all newly planted trees. No trees can prosper while subject to wind-waving.

Farm. — ~Novr the winter is coming on, all the sheep should have their feet carefully pared and dressed, if required. There are different ointments used for the foot-rot, and most of them will cure the disease if the feet are properly attended to. In order to prevent the disease, if possible, the feet should be kept well pared during the winter months. Draining may be proceeded with. Winter wheat should be got in at once. Varieties of Spring wheat may be sown next month, or even later; scarcely any rule can be laid down as to the .proper quantity to sow, as so much depeqds upon the quality and condition of the land, time of sowing, and kind of wheat to be sown. Farmers also differ as to whether it is best to sow wheat broadcast or to plough it in with a thin furrow ; drills are not much used, but might be with advantage. Early sown rape or grass may be Btooked, but not too heavily at first. 29