THE VEGETABLE GARDEN

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 111, 23 April 1936, Page 13

THE VEGETABLE GARDEN

Sow the seeds of lettuce, mustard •nd cress, cabbage, cauliflower, winter or prickly spinach and silver beet. Gardeners do not fully realise the value of greens to the system. AU rooot crops may now be set, •uch as parsnips, beet, onion, spring onion, early potatoes, garlic, shallots, •nd carrots. Celery should be carefully earthed up if necessary, care being taken not to fill in between the stalks with scil. Backward cabbage crops should be watered with nitrate of soda, loz. per gallon. In all vacant ground sow oats, mustard and lupins, for digging in later as green manure. Lawns should now be sown while the ground is nice and moist. Three pound of seed will sow 100 square yards of soil. Bake the surface level •nd roll firmly before and after ingCut back rhubarb stalks and give the crowns a rest and prepare ground for fresh plantings. Give hedges a good clipping before the weather becomes too cold and frosts attack the young growth. Hoe round the fruit trees and shrubs, clearing away all weeds and rubbish. Start now and plant what trees you require for the coming season, and in your •pare time prepare the holes and fill with well rotted manure.