GARDENING NOTES

Hutt News, Volume 15, Issue 38, 11 March 1942, Page 6

GARDENING NOTES

SEASONAL DON'TS Don't put off till to-morrow what can be done to-day. Procrastination is the thief of time. Don't neglect spraying or dusting Flower of Spring cabbage seedlings with an insecticide. This is the most highly prized and valuable early spring green vegetable. Don't omit to lay the foundation of the compost heap in March. Don't delay early preparation of your onion bed. Onion seed should be sown in the South Island in early March; late March, or early April in the North Island. SUMMARY OF OPERATION S DURING MARCH Vegetable Section Successional Sowings. Peas (dwarf late Feb.); lettuce; radish (long scarlet) # Other Sowings. Carrots (Earlykrop, Scarlet Horn) turnips (Snowball, Model White); endive (green curled); onions (Puke kohe Longkeeper); spinach (Prick-ly—-long standing}; swede (Superlative, Success). Asparagus —- Destroy all top growth as soon as ripe. Rhubarb—Cut out seed stalks close to base. If available, spread a mulch of stable manure. Crops in Season. The month in brackets represents the month of sowing the seed). Lettuce (May, late spring cutting) radish (almost all the year round); sweet corn (late spring and summer); tomatoes, outside-grown (early Sept.); cucumbers (Sept.); springonions (Mar.); capsicum (Aug); egg plant (Oct.) Other Crops Beans, marrows, and pumpkins (late Oct. and Nov.); spinach (almost any month); roots (Feb. Mar); carrots and parsnips (Stpt ( Oct. main crop).