WORK FOR THE WEEK

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 118, 14 November 1929, Page 26

WORK FOR THE WEEK

VEGETABLE GARDEN

Thin out to proper distances all seedling crops.

Before thinning give the ground a good Watering. This enables the surplus plants to be removed with a minimum of damage to the roots, and is specially good where the seedlings removed are to be replanted.

Keep the surface soil between and around growing crops frequently stirred to encourage growth and destroy weeds. Stake and beans early before they are damaged by wind. Earth up cabbage, potatoes, beans, and peas. Sow for succession, peas, beans, lettuce, radish, and mustard and cress. Plant out tomato plants. Protect them until they become established. Tie up tomato plants, previously planted, as they require it. FLOWER GARDEN. Continue the planting of half-hardy and tender annuals. If the ground -is at all dry puddle the plants in. Plant out dahlias and chrysanthemums. Stake and tie up any tall-growing plants. Disbud those roses which require it, and destroy green fly in the early stages by spraying with Black Leaf 40. Carnations require disbudding. Leave one bloom only to each stem. These plants also. require staking and tying, to keep the blooms off the ground. Remove plants of forgetmenot and wallflower, etc., which flowered during the spring. • . ,_

The land so cleared may be dug over, manured, and replanted with some sum-mer-flowering subject. ■ Keep down, all weeds by constant hoeing. ■ ■