HAWKE'S BAY GARDEN CALENDAR.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1072, 6 August 1869, Page 2

HAWKE'S BAY GARDEN CALENDAR.

AUGUST. Kitchen Garden. — Sow carrots, parsnips, onions, leeks, lettuces, radishes, spinach, beot, peas, beans, cabbages and cauliflowers. Protect early potatoes where necessary ; fronds of fern stuck along the rows form a good protection against the frosts of spring. Silver beet, which i 3 grown for its leaf stalk and leaves, should be sown in tows and thinned out to two feet apart ; the young leaves are an admirable substitute for spinach, and the stalk and mid rib is used. for seakale. • Fruit G-aeden. — Peaches are now in blossom, and towards the end of the month the plums begin to bloom ; therefore it would not answer to prune any of them, but such trees as are late in developing either blossom buds or leaf buds may still be pruned. Grafting should be performed this and next month, according to the state of the buda ; the most successful time is when they begin to swell. Apples, pears, medlars, quinces, plums, may still be planted in cases of emergency ; the trees will require mulching and frequent waterings if the next month should be dry. Flowek Garden. — Sow anemone seed ; mix the seed with sand and rub well, so as to soparate the downy seeds from each other ; sow them thinly, sand and all, but a little below the surface in rows 12 inches apart, and thin them out afterwards to 12 inches in the row, transplanting to another bed those thinned out. Manure roses with cow-dung, two years old if possible ; pruno some of them, leaving others to bo pruned in October, so that you may obtain a succession of flowers. Put dahlia roots in gentle heat to make them shoot proviously to dividing and planting out.