Kitchen Garden.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 4193, 24 November 1883, Page 8 (Supplement)

Kitchen Garden.

Earth up and stake running beans and peas as noon as possible ; finish planting out cucumbers, melons, tomatoes, etc. Protect with a paper covering as already doscribed. Continue thinning out thoso sown last month, leaving tho best of the plants. Finish the transplanting of early-sown onions. Thin out thoso which were later sown. Attend to the .fortnightly sowing of mustard, press, and radishes, for saladings; sow in moist situations. Lettuce : Make a fresh sowing, prick out into a bed those largo enough for transplanting, tie up the leaves of tho larger plants so as to blanch thorn. Wlionovor a favourable occasion occurs, plant out cauliflower and cabbage If tho weather bo dry, transplant in the evening, giving the plants in the seed bed a good watering before lifting. This will cause tho plants to lift with a good ball of earth to their roots. After planting, give each plant _ a good watering. Continue watering till thoy got established. The abova will apply to the transplanting of a good number of vegetables when the season is dry. Earth up all growing crops which may require it. Snails and slugs are still troublesome. Lime at night so as to kill them. Flower Garden. Finish planting out all annuals as soon as possible, filling up all blanks, both in tho beds and mixed borders. The dry season will soon be upon us, and it is advisable to get everything well established before it hoU in. Bedding plants should now bo making rapid growth. Every attention must be given to tho pegging and pinching, so as to cause tho plants to fill tho space allotted to each in regular manner. In pinching, try and promote the growth of plenty of shoots. Stako and tio up thoFo which may require it. Roses: Oivo copious waterings with liquid manure, picking-" oil' all blooms which have passed their best: this will send more strength into those that are coming on. Dahlias: Continuo planting out, preparing sot holes as already doscribod, Keep tho hoo going stirring tho surfaco-soil and keeping weeds down. Look after slugs. Lawn : Mow and roll constantly The recant wet weather would have the oflect of swolling tho soil. Rolling when moist will set it properly again. Walks ought now to bo raked over onco a week. This will keep them clear of weeds. Grcoiihouso. There ought now to bo a strong active growth going on. (Jive a liberal supply of water to ail quick-growing plants. Ko-pot such plants as tho colons, etc., which want more pot-room. (Jivo plenty ot' air during tho day, shading when the sun is vory strong.