THE WEEK'S WORK
VEGETABLE GARDEN.
Plant, main crop potatoes, cabbages, cauliflowers, shallot*, lcUmte, and autumn-sown onions. Make sowings of onions, peas, carrots, radishes, lettuce, t turnips, parsnips, and beet. Karth up potatoes as sooii as sufficiently •advanced. Cabbages, i-aulinowcrs, and peas are also benefited by earthing up. - . Stake peas before they got too tall. Even dwarf varieties arc bettor for supports. Keep ■tho soil between the rows of growing crops loosened* up; especially .is this necessary after heavy rains. : Tomatoes, cucumbers, marrows, and pumpkins may be. sown under glass.. ■. ■ • ■"...'*•■ A sowing of parsley should be made where "the " plants " are to grow. Thin out to eight inches apart. The various herbs may be planted. Put all ground into good couditiou for sowing and planting by digging and manuring. FLOWER GARDEN. Kose pruning should be completed without delay if not already done. Sow in the open ground all varieties of hardy aanuals and weed and thin those already up. Plant out pansies, violas, larkspurs, nemesias, Iceland poppies, and any other similar annuals which are available. Sow under glass phlox drummondi, asters, zinnias, salvias, and other half-hardy and: tender subjects. Dahlia roots may be started into growth by putting them in a warm position, and covering lightly with some fine soil. They should be kept moist. ' ■ '■• , Sow sweet peas.' Plantvout those which were raised in pots. Plant evergreen shrubs—rhododendrons, hydrangeas, azaleas, etc.
THE WEEK'S WORK
Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1933, Page 20
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