HAWKE'S BAY GARDEN CALENDAR.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1091, 12 October 1869, Page 2

HAWKE'S BAY GARDEN CALENDAR.

OCTOBER. Kitchen Garden. — All sowings omitted last month must be performed, now : keep seed beds well weeded and thinned. Sow plentifully kidney beans and runners, carrots, parsnips, small salading, melons, cucumbers, and marrows. Slugs now become very troublesome; cabbage leaves smeared on the under side with grease and laid among the beds successfully entrap them ; as the slugs feed at night, the leaves will have to be visited at that time. Fruit Garden.-— Disbud trees, with the thumb, of superfluous, buds. Trim away strawberry runners, reserving such of the strongest as may be required for new beds. Mulch newly planted trees with lawn mowings, rough stable litter, or even weeds. Flower Garden. — Sow annuals of all kinds for successional flowering ; sow also biennials and perennials. Acacia seeds and others of similar nature germinate with greater certainty if they have been steeped in water at nearly boiling heat for an hour. Plant dahlias; those that were left in the ground during winter will send up numerous shoots ; select the strongest, and remove the others; the suckers will all root.