WORK FOR THE WEEK
The Flower Garden Plant hedges now. AU flowering trees and shrubs should now be planted. Plant out all annuals and continue planting at intervals to ensure a succession of flowers. Prepare ground for gladioli. Remove dead foliage from bearded irises. Seedling sweet peas can now be planted. Delphiniums and perennial lupins should be planted now. Plant out new subjects in the herbaceous border and divide old clumps. Sow seed of hardy annuals. Sow antirrhinums, aubretia, asters, calendulas, calliopsis. pansies, sweet peas. The Vegetable Garden Give asparagus beds a dressing of old manure. Plant out lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower and onions. Shallots can be planted in August. Make a sowing of silver beet. Sow for succession turnips, winter spinach and a pinch of lettuce. Earth up seedling cabbage and cauliflower. Onions can now be sown. Lime the plots intended for early sowing. Plots not likely to be used for some time should now be sown down in green crops for digging in. Thin out all seedling crops. Lift, divide and replant herbs. All fruit trees should be planted during August.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 260, 30 July 1937, Page 18
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